DeFi

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The network’s most ambitious upgrade since the Merge brings validator streamlining, smart account UX and doubled blobspace to Ethereum

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Debate over extra Bitcoin use cases has returned, two years on from Ordinals

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A number of blockchains make use of the Solana Virtual Machine

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Solana leaders privately told validators to upgrade their software

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Kraken’s chief security officer Nick Percoco said the exchange turned the tables on a North Korean hacker

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The L2 chain with opt-in privacy features was eight years in the making

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Partial recovery is already in motion, according to the Loopscale team

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Following a developer call Monday, EOF appears to be out of Fusaka fork

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Satoshi Disappear Day celebrates Bitcoin’s success without its creator

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Around 150 Solana validators would lose their foundation stake under the new rule, perBlockworks Research estimates

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From Ethereum primitive to multichain coordination layer, Symbiotic, EigenLayer, Puffer and MoreMarkets are evolving restaking

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Curve founder Michael Egorov is working on a new protocol designed to eliminate impermanent loss, rethink token emissions, and capture BTC-native yield

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EVM bottlenecks fundamentally hold back Ethereum’s scalability

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Timeboost overhauls the chain’s first come, first serve policy with market mechanisms

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The DeFi Education Fund has ideas on how the crypto-friendly SEC can bring Commissioner Peirce’s vision to life

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The MIT research-based protocol is live in private testnet — laying the foundation for decentralized RAM

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Publicly-listed Janover announced last week that a group of ex-Kraken employees had acquired a majority stake in the company

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ETH’s success hinges on the resource of data availability, particularly how much it sells to L2s

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In 2011, bitcoin blew past the one-dollar event horizon and never looked back

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ColliderVM promises validity-based computation on Bitcoin—no soft fork required

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Ethereum core developers finalize Pectra’s May 7 launch and wrap scoping of the next upgrade

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Mary Gooneratne, co-founder of Solana DeFi startup Loopscale, wants to give blockchain borrow-lend a facelift

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The controversial new model aims to cut emissions by 43% and redirect incentives

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M^0’s first Solana user will be a platform offering banking-like services with stablecoins

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