Darren Kleine

Darren Kleine

Darren Kleine is an Alberta-based reporter covering podcast content at Blockworks. Previously reporting for Cointelegraph, he wrote feature content and a weekly series focused on the personal stories of influential figures in the Web3 space. He has been an active participant in the NFT art scene since 2020, creating works on curated platforms including SuperRare and KnownOrigin and hosting an NFT art-focused podcast called NFP with DKleine. Contact Darren Kleine at [email protected]

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Morgan Creek Capital’s Mark Yusko argues that when it comes to security, no other blockchain comes close to Bitcoin

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As markets teeter with uncertainty, both gold bugs and bitcoin aficionados are perking up, spurred by murmurs of a potential change in policy

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Following community backlash, Metaplex promptly back-pedaled from initial plans, removing some, but not all of the proposed fees

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All NFTs on Ethereum, from CryptoKitties to the latest projects, can hold other tokens

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Five years after the ICO boom and bust, the notion of traditional finance assets existing on the blockchain is not nearly as far fetched

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Hunting for victims in Ethereum’s public mempool, automated searchers prey on transactions as they are discovered in a practice called MEV

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Web2 social media platforms are among the largest companies in the world, with billions of users happily handing over their personal information

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Right now, mining rewards are enough to keep Bitcoin safe, but what happens when they’re gone?

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Traffic flooded the network as non-fungible tokens sprung into existence

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Tether recently announced plans to allocate up to 15% of their profits to bitcoin

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Bigger block sizes and jumps in fees are the result of activities usually more at home on rival network Ethereum

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Sandwich attacks are eating up hapless traders’ lunch money

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Tether’s recent market share gains seem to be directly at the expense of Circle’s USDC

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In theory, a reduction in supply should drive ETH’s value as an asset upwards over time

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It can take a while for larger entities to adjust their risk profiles, particularly when it comes to the volatile and legally fuzzy world of crypto

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Coinbase defied Wall Street expectations with a “transformational” quarter

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Over the past few years, developers in the Ethereum ecosystem have been considering methods to ensure credible neutrality

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Discerning humans from artificial intelligences is a daunting task on the internet

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“If you have a spreadsheet with money in it, you have to rewrite some cells and some formulas if the United States defaults”

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Early buyers made a fortune as PEPE surged from virtually nothing to a peak market cap of around $1.5 billion in just a few weeks

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Eclipse aims to provide interoperability and customizability to blockchain applications

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DEX traders live in a strange world of transparency via publicly distributed ledgers and the desire for privacy to protect from exploitation

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The US is very different from where the rest of the world is right now

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About half of Americans say they are afraid to keep their money in the bank

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The ‘x’ stands for “executable,” meaning that an xNFT is not only a digital asset, but that it can also run built-in code

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Blend became the largest NFT lending protocol by volume and user share within 24 hours of launching

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Which banks get bailed out and which don’t? Nobody seems to know

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A slick user experience tends to trump principles of decentralization

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Arnault has exhibited a tepid attitude toward the technology in the past, despite his sons showing considerably greater interest

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Jito Labs says their bundling mechanism is the solution

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Big banks eating up little banks might lead to a central bank digital currency in America

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Nic Carter says “each bank failure drives the Fed closer to a liquidity bazooka”

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Many are turning to assets that offer a degree of isolation from the failures of the traditional financial system — namely crypto

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The dearth of consumer-level Web3 apps is disappointing, but a few could be just around the corner

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Doodles aims to bring new technology to the world through characters people love

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Turns out, MEV is not a new thing

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Contrasting frameworks might be a factor in deciding where crypto companies set up shop

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Hard landing, soft landing… What really matters is the monetary policy lag, argues Julian Brigden

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Strictly striving for higher speeds eventually arrives at centralization and censorship

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No one has fully decentralized their sequencers yet

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How did Multicoin Capital get so intertwined with FTX?

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The App Store greenlit crypto app has a few pain points that might keep newbies away

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There simply aren’t any more sellers, according to Morgan Creek Capital Management founder, Mark Yusko

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Sometimes less is more, at least when it comes to relay providers

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The popularity of DeFi has fallen far from its 2020 heights

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Rather than just creating a single-purpose static object, the modular nature of building blocks allows for a world of infinite possibilities

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Are relays destined to remain as a necessary evil?

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Were regional bank collapses all part of a plan to de-bank crypto?

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Prove a thousand or a million transactions for the same cost

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Maximum extractable value, or MEV, is all about finding a way to get the most value out of a protocol’s activity