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Bitcoin's Programmability Draws Closer to Reality as Robin Linus Delivers 'BitVM2'

15.8.2024

Chaos Labs Raises $55M as Demand Grows for On-Chain Risk Management

15.8.2024
The influx of capital comes as Chaos Labs, founded in 2021, looks to expand its platform, designed to address the growing need for automated risk management in decentralized finance (DeFi)

Protocol Village: Wormhole Rolls Out 'Era3' Roadmap, XION Plans Token

15.8.2024
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Aug. 15-21, 2024

The Protocol: Memecoin Trading Is Suddenly Trump.fun

14.8.2024
Blockchain has gone even more ridiculous than usual over the past week, with headlines focused on Trump-themed memecoins and the Solana-based launchpad Pump.fun. PLUS: Ethereum developers tee up revamp of the EVM programming environment

As Restaking Takes Shape on Solana, Ethereum's Renzo Jumps in With 'ezSOL'

14.8.2024

Ethereum-Based Swell Imports Wrapped Bitcoin to Serve as Liquid Restaking Token

14.8.2024
Users can deposit their wBTC to get swBTC in return, with yield expected to start flowing from mid-September – as part of a blockchain "restaking" scheme ultimately designed to secure protocols in the Ethereum blockchain ecosystem

Ethereum Set for Overhaul of Crucial Programming Standard With 'EVM Object Format'

14.8.2024
The EOF proposal is a series of smaller EIPs that include measures aimed at updating and improving the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), the programming environment that executes smart contracts on the blockchain, and arguably Ethereum’s secret sauce that made it different from Bitcoin and other...

Optimism Pushes for 'Interoperability' Between Affiliated Blockchains

12.8.2024
Optimism networks that are part of the Superchain rely on Ethereum to communicate with each other in order to move assets, which tends to make such moves slow and expensive. To address that, Optimism is releasing its own interoperability roadmap

Coinbase-Backed Vega Gets Into Prediction-Market Race, Chasing Polymarket

8.8.2024
A major upgrade to Vega's blockchain and decentralized perpetuals exchange will allow users to bet on the outcomes of future events

NEAR Pushes 'Signatures' on Mainnet, in Growing Trend of Chain Abstraction

8.8.2024
The feature was introduced in testnet in March, and allows users with a NEAR account to sign transactions on blockchains it supports, without the need for cross-chain bridges

Protocol Village: Validation Cloud Supports Stellar Full Archive Nodes, Nillion Partners With AI Network Ritual

8.8.2024

The Protocol: Death Cross, Dip Buying and Developer Nerves

7.8.2024
Bitcoin swooned, and crypto markets followed. Should blockchain-project founders and developers be worried? PLUS: We break down Ronin Network's $12 million run-in with white-hat hackers

WiFi Provider Andrena Raises $18M to Offer Decentralized Broadband

7.8.2024

Ronin Bridge Paused After $9M Drained in Apparent Whitehat Hack

6.8.2024
“The bridge currently secures over $850M which is safe,” co-founder @Psycheout86 said in an X post

Protocol Village: Switchboard Releases 'Oracle Aggregator,' Pichi Raises $2.5M

1.8.2024
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Aug. 1-7

Crypto VC Paradigm Invests in MetaDAO as Prediction Markets Boom

1.8.2024
MetaDAO, a Solana experiment in governance by "futarchy," raised a total of $2.2 million to fund operations

The Protocol: Bitcoin Gets Political as U.S. Government Ponders Airdrops

31.7.2024
In this week's issue of CoinDesk's newsletter on blockchain tech, we examine U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis's call for a national "Bitcoin Strategic Reserve." We've also got photos from the Bitcoin Nashville conference, where it seemed like nearly everyone was talking about staple-gunning layer-2...