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Roman Storm was found guilty in a case experts say criminalizes non-custodial code

Pendle’s new platform transforms perp funding into tradable yield units — paving the way for a full-stack onchain fixed-income ecosystem

New “Lean Ethereum” vision transforms a network-layer refactor into a long-term roadmap for post-quantum security

After lengthy closing arguments on Wednesday, the case is now in the hands of 12 jurors

Builders weigh in on Ethereum’s first decade and the decisions that will define its next one

Closing arguments set to kick off Wednesday after Tuesday’s testimony from two expert witnesses and an a16z partner

An Aave interest rate shock prompted over 475,000 validators to exit and pushed stETH into a prolonged depeg

While Roman Storm’s team is set to present its case, it’s not yet clear if the Tornado Cash founder will testify

The new system is “basically decentralizing ourselves,” Jito Labs CEO Lucas Bruder said

PUMP’s numbers on Solana indicate a “fork in the road” when it comes to the role of DEXs in token sales, says Blockworks Research

New L1 chain tackles TON’s lack of native EVM support, promising Ethereum app compatibility

BitVM3’s “garbled circuit” approach faces critical security and scaling research before it will be practical

Buzzwords include: succinct universal proofs, zkVM, incrementally verifiable computation, distributed supercomputer and agentic AI
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