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Value Locked in Defi Nears $100B Range Again After $11.89B Increase in 35 Days
18.5.2024
Over the past 35 days, the total value locked in decentralized finance (defi) protocols has expanded by $11.89 billion, recovering from a low of just over $83 billion on April 13. Although it has not yet reached the $100 billion mark, the value locked in defi is approaching that milestone after...
Liquid Staking Market in Flux: Withdrawals Hit Swell and Mantle, Reshuffling Landscape
17.5.2024
Over the past 18 days, 27 distinct liquid staking derivatives (LSD) protocols have experienced withdrawals amounting to approximately 50,000 ether, valued at $146.72 million. The most significant reductions occurred in the LSDs Swell and Mantle, with Swell’s ether holdings decreasing...
Binance-backed Magic Square IDO platform to democratize retail investor access
17.5.2024
IDO launchpads are becoming a popular way to raise funds for projects, with some IDOs reaching nearly half a billion dollars
Regulators are cracking down on financial privacy, but ZK-proofs can help
14.5.2024
The convergence of ZK-proofs and decentralized identity systems could create more compliant privacy-preserving protocols, without sacrificing user privacy
Math Olympian in Shadow of John Nash Tries to Solve Blockchain, AI Trust Dilemma
9.5.2024
Hyperbolic, the two-year-old startup focused on decentralized AI computing, said that it is introducing a protocol called “Proof of Sampling (PoSP),” aimed at addressing challenges with trust in decentralized AI networks
Hong Kong central bank forms community to explore assets tokenization
7.5.2024
Regulators like HKMA and SFC united with local private sector firms like HSBC and HashKey to support the market of tokenization in Hong Kong
Runes and BRC-20s are just a stepping stone for Bitcoin DeFi
6.5.2024
Bitcoin is becoming a yield-generating asset, thanks to new token standards like Runes, which may only be a stepping stone for Bitcoin DeFi
RWA protocols are closing in on $8B total value locked: Messari
1.5.2024
The TVL across real-world asset tokenization protocols has surged almost 60% since February, says blockchain analytics firm Messari
The Protocol: Using the Money Printer
3.4.2024
If you have the money printer – as is the case for many of the blockchain projects with the power to create their own digital tokens – why wouldn't you use it? PLUS: Vitalik Buterin riffs on meme coin and Ethereum's new "blob market."
Crypto for Advisors: Understanding The Ethereum Economy
21.3.2024
This article examines the advantages of Ethereum as a protocol economy and how one could gain exposure to this breakthrough technology asset
The Protocol: Bitcoin Halving in 3 Weeks, Solana's Yakovenko on Meme Coins
20.3.2024
There's no slowdown in blockchain news, with Ethereum's Dencun upgrade in the rear view mirror and Bitcoin's halving now just over three weeks away. We spoke with Solana's Anatoly Yakovenko about the meme coin frenzy stressing the suddenly-active blockchain
The Protocol: Is Ethereum's Dencun Update All It's Cracked Up To Be?
13.3.2024
Some developers think that shifting the Ethereum ecosystem further towards layer 2 networks could risk setting it down the wrong path
The Protocol: Bitcoin Cry for Help Heard
6.3.2024
It may seem perplexing to the corporate mindset that bitcoin's price surged this week to a new all-time high above the old record around $69,000, even as the dominant Bitcoin Core software used to run the blockchain remains dependent on a group of volunteers. But there may be help on the way
The Protocol: Bitcoin's Call for Volunteers, Ethena's USDe, Blast's Blast-Off
28.2.2024
In this week's issue of CoinDesk's newsletter on blockchain technology, we've got an exclusive interview with Stacks co-creator Muneeb Ali. PLUS: More than $200 million of blockchain project fundraisings
Decentralized Money Market Protocol Aave Joins BNB Chain’s Defi Landscape
22.2.2024
On Feb. 22, 2024, the primary development group of the BNB Chain revealed that the decentralized finance (defi) money market protocol, Aave, has been successfully launched on the BNB network. Boasting a total value locked (TVL) of $8.571 billion, Aave is now active across 13 blockchains in total....
The Protocol: Restaking Tokens Are Exploding, and Restaking Isn't Even Live
21.2.2024
In this week's issue of our weekly blockchain tech newsletter, Sam Kessler explores how "liquid restaking tokens" or LRTs are remaking decentralized finance. PLUS: Starknet's STRK airdrop, Stellar's smart-contract facelift and bitcoin's supply crunch
The Protocol: Bitcoin's OP_CAT, Fake Ethereum Tokens, Starknet's Airdrop
14.2.2024
CoinDesk's Jamie Crawley takes a look at the suddenly-high-profile proposal to revive Bitcoin's historic "OP_CAT" function as a way of enabling more development on the oldest blockchain. PLUS: the unofficial "ERC-404" tokens driving up fees on Ethereum and highlights from our Protocol Village...
The Protocol: Solana's Missed Moment, Exclusive Farcaster Q&A, Bullish Year of Dragon
7.2.2024
Even in a slow week ahead of the Chinese New Year, there's a lot of crypto news to cover. Here's this week's The Protocol, CoinDesk's weekly newsletter devoted to blockchain tech
The Protocol: Bitcoin NFT Debacle, Vitalik's 30th, Farcaster Frames, 'Private Mempools'
31.1.2024
In this week's issue of The Protocol newsletter, our Sam Kessler writes about the "private mempools" that Ethereum users are increasingly relying on to avoid front-running MEV bots. PLUS: Margaux Nijkerk explores the growing use of "councils" to oversee adolescent networks
As Blockchains Push Toward Decentralization, These People Serve as Ultimate Guardians
29.1.2024
The goal of these "protocol councils,” sometimes called “security councils,” is to nudge these nascent networks toward increasing decentralization, by gradually removing them from under the control of their original developers. How are they different from boards of directors?