FDUSD is looking at cross-border payments, layer-2 deployments and payroll

The scheme would lock extra bitcoin in transactions that only environmentally friendly miners can unlock

Celo’s layer-2 will aim for a summer 2024 testnet

Plus, Justin Sun releases a song by Hans Zimmer and PayPal will no longer protect NFT scam sales

Plus, Puffer joins the restaking round club and a Bitcoin Runes DEX announces seed funding

Elsewhere, a former Disney gaming lead goes Web3 and OKX executives depart

Chorus One tried to tease out some risks that could emerge from the buzzy restaking protocol

EY plans to move the service to Ethereum mainnet and a layer-3 in the future, its blockchain head told Blockworks

Worldcoin-related activity currently makes up 43% of activity on Optimism, a Dune dashboard suggests

Elsewhere, rank-and-file employees move around and Binance’s head of legal in Europe departs

Plus, a Dragonfly partner shares his view on the crypto VC market, and a mining hardware firm raises $80 million

Plus, a Bored Ape burger restaurant closes, and Crypto: The Game presses on

Relm and Chainproof will provide insurance quotes to distributed validators

Pre-seed Bitcoin startup deals rose 360% in 2023, a TVP report shows

In-protocol payments and slashing won’t go live until the marketplace stabilizes

Monad is set to go to mainnet by the end of 2024

Bitcoin layer-2 solutions continue to proliferate

The halt was caused by the wrong version of a bug fix being included in an upgrade

Using ASIC warmth for home heating can make mining worth the cost, some say

For the first time ever, Bitcoin’s halving comes right after a new all-time high