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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Build it and they will come, perhaps, but making crypto easier to use is turning out to be just as important

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Safe has teamed up with Web3Auth to create tooling for building Ethereum applications on top of smart accounts

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Neutron core contributor Dutheil notes this is “a period of consolidation” in the Cosmos ecosystem

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Wildcat wants to make undercollateralized lending terms completely transparent

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Brent Xu, CEO of Umee, notes that more strategic alignments within the Cosmos ecosystem should be expected in the future

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Uniswap Labs will be providing trading APIs to Talos investors through Fireblocks

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Accredited and non-accredited investors worldwide will be able to purchase the Note starting Dec. 6 on US-regulated trading platform INX

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“Code” will be one of the first Solana-based projects to open source its code using the MIT license

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Smart accounts have so far seen lacklustre adoption from Ethereum users, but removing the need for private keys might be an answer

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Ethereum users have layer-2 rollups to thank for saving them from high fees and long wait times

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Protocols continued to build in the blockchain space this past year despite a tumultuous 2022

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NFT data will be integrated into CoinGecko APIs in second quarter of 2024, having bought Zash for an undisclosed sum

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Binance and its former CEO have pleaded guilty to federal charges of over $4.3 billion

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Telegram bots have seen a cumulative trading volume of over $4 billion

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Avalanche has been inundated with transactions for inscriptions, similar to the Ordinals that already hit Bitcoin, Litecoin and Dogecoin

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User funds are not affected by the attack, but the DEX’s insurance fund lost around $9 million, dYdX founder Antonio Juliano says

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The first mainnet version of Nocturne has limited functionality, but more features are in the works

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The Aave protocol developer is changing its name and acquiring the self-custody wallet service Family

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Following a $7 million fundraise, Fhenix outlines its design for a fully homomorphic encryption rollup

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Technological advancement, thanks to zk-SNARKS, puts Plasma back in the limelight