The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of March 7-March 13.
The Protocol: Bitcoin Cry for Help Heard
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.
Protocol Village: Bitcoin Miner Marathon, Plans ‘Anduro,’ a Multi-Chain Layer-2
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Feb. 29-March 6.
The Protocol: Bitcoin’s Call for Volunteers, Ethena’s USDe, Blast’s Blast-Off
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.
Protocol Village: Wormhole Collaborates With AMD to Make Hardware Accelerators
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Feb. 22-28.
The Protocol: Restaking Tokens Are Exploding, and Restaking Isn’t Even Live
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.
Protocol Village: QuickNode Adds Support for ZkSync Hyperchains
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Feb. 15-21.
The Protocol: Bitcoin’s OP_CAT, Fake Ethereum Tokens, Starknet’s Airdrop
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 column over the past week.
Protocol Village: Order-Routing Protocol Flood Raises $5.2M Led by Bain Capital Crypto, Archetype
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Feb. 8-14.
The Protocol: Solana’s Missed Moment, Exclusive Farcaster Q&A, Bullish Year of Dragon
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.
Protocol Village: Prediction Market Zeitgeist Launches DLMSR-Based AMM
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Feb. 1-7.
The Protocol: Bitcoin NFT Debacle, Vitalik’s 30th, Farcaster Frames, ‘Private Mempools’
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.
Protocol Village: Space and Time Rolls Out Open-Source GPU Acceleration Framework ‘Blitzar’
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Jan. 25-31.
The Protocol: Ethereum Developers Warn on ‘Diversity Problem’
In this week’s issue, a focus on Ethereum’s “diversity problem,” the week’s biggest blockchain project upgrades and highlights from Electric Capital’s annual report on developer activity. PLUS: We’ve got an exclusive interview with a top architect behind the XRP Ledger.
Protocol Village: Matter Labs, iCandy Plan New ‘Hyperchain’
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Jan. 18-24.
The Protocol: MetaMask’s Secret Weapon and Ethereum’s Dencun Debacle
In this issue of CoinDesk’s weekly newsletter on blockchain technology, we bring you Sam Kessler’s scoop on MetaMask’s in-development “intents” feature that could revolutionize how users interact with blockchains. Also: a post-mortem on Ethereum’s unexpectedly ugly Dencun testnet upgrade – and a glimpse of one of the new data blobs.
Protocol Village: Mobile Gaming Studio AOFverse Gets Grant from Arbitrum Foundation
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Jan. 11-17.
The Protocol: Beneath Bitcoin ETF Chaos, A Blockchain Drama
In this week’s issue, we dive into the proposal that would have curtailed Ordinals inscriptions “NFTs on Bitcoin” traffic – were it not abruptly ended over the past week by a maintainer for the popular Bitcoin Core software.
Protocol Village: EOS-Focused VC Invests in EZSwap for Gaming and ‘Smart Inscriptions’
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Jan. 4-10.
The Protocol: Is Solana’s Rebound The Real Thing?
Solana has been one of the biggest gainers of the latest crypto cycle, with a handful of airdrops and meme tokens accelerating big boosts in the price of SOL. Also, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has released an updated roadmap for the ecosystem.
