Macauley Peterson

Macauley Peterson

Macauley is a Senior Editor based in Germany. He was an editor and content creator in the pro chess world for 14 years before an interest in crypto led him to Bucerius Law School (MLB 2020), a thesis on stablecoins, DeFi and CBDC, and a career change. He also holds an MA in Film Studies; film credits include Associate Producer of the 2016 Netflix feature documentary, "Magnus" about World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen. Contact: [email protected]
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Index Coop is automating investment in high yield ether opportunities, minus the points farming

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X Layer is a zkEVM validium running on Polygon’s CDK tech stack

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DLC.Link uses a Taproot-based Bitcoin multisig to let institutions mint dlcBTC, starting on Arbitrum

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Nomic and Babylon team up to offer stBTC, a bitcoin with built-in staking yield but without lockups

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Multichain apps can share a common state between chains

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In a forum post, Polygon detailed what went wrong with its zkEVM in a recent outage

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Exploit shows centralization can sometimes be an asset

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The final Bitcoin halving, where the mining reward becomes smaller than one satoshi, is expected to occur in 2140

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Searching by Ethereum address has been possible for almost a year

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URamp enters the existing ecosystem of products from players like Mastercard, Cross Finance and Beam, which all connect on-chain finance to traditional banking

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The Dencun hard fork hits Ethereum mainnet, the most significant upgrade since the Merge

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For the first time, a major Ethereum hard fork launches on another chain first

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Ether, while still about 20% away from an all-time high, has been accelerating in recent days, relative to bitcoin

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Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin, continues to befuddle FUDers by minting its way into an exclusive club worth over $100 billion

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Blast encouraged users to deposit into its multisig. Now they can finally exit

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Vitalik Buterin wants to firm up the account abstraction roadmap

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Celestia had the first mover advantage. EigenDA has staked ether. What sets Avail apart?

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Avalanche nodes recently began the Durango upgrade, which is scheduled to activate on its mainnet next month

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A bespoke smart contract layer, Soroban, is online after years of development

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From missing allocations to early vesting, Starknet’s “provisions” plan had a rough first week