Bessie Liu

Bessie Liu

Bessie is a Brooklyn-based reporter covering DeFi and technology. Bessie worked as a tech journalist for The Org prior to joining Blockworks and was a management consultant for KPMG in another life. She is originally from Melbourne, Australia and holds an MA from New York University. She is also the mother of a bratty cat named Mochi. You can reach Bessie at [email protected]

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“Polkadot and Cosmos share a similar vision where you have a range of heterogeneous blockchains working together,” Jafar Azam told Blockworks

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Sommelier is offering a passive way to earn 2% to 4% yield on your governance tokens

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Following its deployment on zkSync Era, Rocket Pool has no immediate plans to launch on other chains

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Connext wants to make using layer-2s and layer-3s a seamless experience

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Giddy will now enable users to spend their yield on real-world goods and services

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Bedrock will pave the way for Optimism to introduce a multi-client ecosystem

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The processed message has been securely stored on Filecoin and is available to interested participants for analysis

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Decisions made by the DAO will be automatically implemented from mainnet to different sidechains

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The Curve community is gauging whether or not solid price oracles should be implemented in select pools with deep liquidity

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Core DAO is bridging proof-of-work and delegated proof-of-stake to create the Satoshi Plus Consensus Mechanism

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Visa’s crypto team is experimenting with off-the-shelf smart contracts as it learns the ropes of blockchain technology

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This new NFT standard (ICS-721) will enable users to transfer their NFTs across blockchains

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B1 has failed to invest a promised $1 billion into the EOS ecosystem, Yves La Rose, the CEO of EOS Network Foundation says

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Developers will be able to earn a portion of the gas fees from the smart contracts they helped create

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This latest proposal wants to charge liquidity providers one fifth of pool fees across Uniswap v3 pools

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Mesh security is designed to increase the economic security layer of the Cosmos ecosystem

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Diversification can help minimize inherent risks in holding cryptocurrencies

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CrvUSD user interface currently only supports the minting of sfrxETH, with crvUSD coming shortly

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Users can now change their wallet RPCs to Flashbots Protect RPC

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Co-founder of Aragon, Luis Cuende, has since proposed a $30 million buyback proposal

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Though the 10-year US Treasury yield increased by four basis points on Monday, DeFi is still offering attractive alternatives

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MakerDAO’s Endgame is designed to ease governance tensions and ensure the DAO is completely decentralized

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The V2 upgrade will introduce withdrawals and a staking router to simplify the crypto on-ramp

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The hacker has been targeting tokens with redistribution rewards

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If ANT token holders profit from the DAO’s treasury, it may no longer be considered a utility token under Swiss laws

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As of publication, more than 99.92% of Lido community members who have voted in the proposal have chosen to take “no action”

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The protocol will initially launch on Moonbeam, Ethereum, Arbitrum and Avalanche with plans to expand in the future

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Neutron will be bringing the benefits of Replicated Security to developers following the passing of proposal 792

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LSM will remove the 21-day unbonding period for liquid-staked tokens

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Doodles is revamping community Support removing a $100K commercial license cap for projects funded by the Doodlebank

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Finalizing UI may be the final step before access to crvUSD

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A roadmap to deliver the hybrid ZK rollup is in motion

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Blockworks exclusive: V2 will introduce something called “DAO futures,” making it simpler for projects to create liquidity pools using their native tokens

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The Uniswap Foundation wants to make it simpler to match community members with governance delegates who share their views

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Developers can build decentralized apps on Bitcoin using Solidity smart contracts

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The company has secured $4.2 million in funding and will be looking to hire new talent

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Even as transactions accelerate, the cost to use the Arbitrum blockchain remains low

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Babylon’s testnet is currently integrated with 16 different chains with plans to eventually expand beyond Cosmos

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A “reputable agent” separate from the bank’s crypto team will manage the stablecoin’s collateral

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Alex Pertsev was arrested back in August 2022 on allegations of money laundering

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The ICI will release its own NFT collection alongside the launch of the NFT trading platform

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Stolen funds will be redistributed to users once SushiSwap completes an audit for its Merkle claim contract

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Interested lenders must pass a 15-minute know-your-customer and anti-money laundering onboarding process

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ZkSync has seen the most amount of activity since deploying on Ethereum

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Users will no longer need to hold ETH to make transactions on Ethereum using the Aurox Wallet

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Stride is the first live blockchain that has proposed to switch to interchain security

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The Solana Saga is designed to make it more seamless to make transactions on your pocket device

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Exclusive: Real Yield ETH will only be available to users outside of the US

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Lower barriers to entry may draw greater institutional interest to the space, Ether Capital CEO Brian Mosoff tells Blockworks

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The exploiter has since moved their USDC to a different wallet