Saturday, September 30, 2023
How One Blockchain Project’s Decentralization Push Culminated in Rage Quitting

How One Blockchain Project’s Decentralization Push Culminated in Rage Quitting

Rage quitting was the talk of Noun town on Dec. 20, 2022, when the project’s two core engineers, Elad Mallel and David Brailovsky, introduced...
Blockchain Capital Raises $580M for 2 New Crypto Venture Capital Funds

Blockchain Capital Raises $580M for 2 New Crypto Venture Capital Funds

Most of Blockchain Capital's limited partners are traditional institutional investors, including university endowments, private foundations, financial institutions, sovereign wealth funds and U.S. pension plans,...
Ethereum ($ETH) Blockchain’s New Test Network Has Twice as Many Validators as Main Network

Ethereum ($ETH) Blockchain’s New Test Network Has Twice as Many Validators as Main Network

Ethereum core developer Parithosh Jayanthi told CoinDesk that Holesky is expected to become the biggest testnet for Ethereum, and should have 1.4 million validators...
Fabian Vogesteller’s Lukso Blockchain Adds ‘Universal Profiles,’ in Push for ‘Fancy’ Ethereum

Fabian Vogesteller’s Lukso Blockchain Adds ‘Universal Profiles,’ in Push for ‘Fancy’ Ethereum

Currently, the most common type of blockchain accounts, known as Externally Owned Accounts (EOA), have limited recovery options; if a user loses their private...
Coinbase-Backed Insurance Alternative OpenCover Debuts on Layer 2 Blockchain Base

Coinbase-Backed Insurance Alternative OpenCover Debuts on Layer 2 Blockchain Base

OpenCover, which raised $4 million in a seed round led by the likes of NFX and Jump Crypto, received a $200,000 funding bump from...
Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin Argues for Blockchain 'Privacy Pools' to Weed Out Criminals

Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin Argues for Blockchain 'Privacy Pools' to Weed Out Criminals

The paper argues for “privacy pools,” a blockchain tech feature that would enhance the privacy of user’s transactions while also distinguishing criminal activity from...
Solana (SOL) Codebase Should Be Basis for MakerDAO’s (MKR, DAI) Native Blockchain, Rune Christensen Says

Solana (SOL) Codebase Should Be Basis for MakerDAO’s (MKR, DAI) Native Blockchain, Rune Christensen...

"Rune’s proposal for the future of MakerDAO is a fantastic showcase of how the high-performance technology behind Solana and the Solana Virtual Machine can...
Aerodrome Fanatics Deposit $150M to Base Blockchain on First Day

Aerodrome Fanatics Deposit $150M to Base Blockchain on First Day

A key problem faced by decentralized exchanges is that rewards emissions are tied to total liquidity, rather than to trading volume, which generates fees...
The Latest Tech News in Crypto and Blockchain

The Latest Tech News in Crypto and Blockchain

Aug. 24: Pancake Swap, a decentralized exchange, has expanded to the Ethereum layer-2 blockchain Linea, from the big Ethereum developer Consensys. PancakeSwap was already...
Ethereum ‘Restaking’ Via EigenLayer Protocol Takes Shape as Next Big Trend in Blockchain Security

Ethereum ‘Restaking’ Via EigenLayer Protocol Takes Shape as Next Big Trend in Blockchain Security

Within the first day, its limit for stETH and rETH – Lido and RocketPool’s liquid staking tokens – was reached, with cbETH, Coinbase’s staked...