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Nalezeno "community backlash": 13

Community Backlash Forces Matter Labs to Drop ‘ZK’ Trademark Bid

4.6.2024
The developer of the Zksync Ethereum Layer 2 network, Matter Labs, abandoned its bid to trademark the term ‘ZK’ just days after asserting its right to do so. Matter Labs’ trademark bid withdrawal follows a furious community backlash that ultimately saw co-inventors...

Ethereum's Dankrad Feist joins EigenLayer, faces community backlash

21.5.2024
Feist's decision to join Eigenlayer as an Advisor follows in the recent controversial footsteps of Ethereum researcher Justin Drake

Yuga Labs halts CryptoPunks project after 'woke' community backlash

21.5.2024
A community member said that Yuga Labs killed CryptoPunks with the new Super Punk World collection, while another threatened to sell their punk NFT

AltLayer’s Executive Quells Community Backlash Over $100 Million Airdrop Distribution

5.2.2024
AltLayer’s Head of Growth has described events leading up to gains by a few non-fungible token (NFT) holders as a coincidence. Additionally, Dorothy called for more community support in the future. In a reaction to widespread criticism of handling a recent airdrop, the executive took to X (formerly...

Bitcoin Mining Pool F2pool Acknowledges OFAC Transaction Censorship; Backpedals After Community Backlash

24.11.2023
F2Pool, a Bitcoin mining pool, has admitted to filtering transactions coming from Bitcoin addresses flagged by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). After the situation was discovered by 0xB10C, a Bitcoin developer, F2pool co-founder Chun Wang acknowledged that his pool was indeed applying...

Arbitrum to break up governance votes after community backlash

3.4.2023
The Arbitrum Foundation has backtracked on a controversial proposal and ratification vote that gave it control of a huge chunk of tokens

Aptos CEO Defends 'Fair' Tokenomics That Prompted Community Backlash

4.11.2022
The CEO of Aptos, the newly launched layer 1 blockchain that went live last month, defended the token allocation following a wave of criticism from its community

FTX's Bankman-Fried Hints at Bitcoin Lightning Network Integration After Community Backlash

17.5.2022
After facing a backlash from the Bitcoin (BTC) community over comments to the Financial Times that Bitcoin is “not a payments network,” Sam Bankman-Fried, the billionaire CEO of crypto exchange FTX, now hints that his exchange may implement Bitcoin Lightning Network payments. “Sounds right...

Luna Foundation Loans Out BTC to Defend Bitcoin Peg, Faces Community Backlash

9.5.2022
The Luna Foundation Guard (LFG), the entity tasked with holding bitcoin (BTC) as part of the reserves backing the TerraUSD (UST) stablecoin, has loaned out USD 750m worth of BTC to a trading firm “to help protect the UST peg.” Confronted with what this really means, Terra (LUNA) founder Do Kwon...

CRO Trims Losses as Crypto.com Scraps Plan to Cut Rewards After Community Backlash

3.5.2022
The crypto platform Crypto.com is again changing its stance on rewards in its own CRO token to cardholders, after a backlash from the community on plans to cut token rewards. CRO trimmed some of its earlier losses following the announcement. At 13:07 UTC, CRO traded at almost USD 0.30 and...