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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Ethereum core developers debated a major overhaul of the EVM, weighing complexity and benefits

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A memecoin short squeeze pushed Hyperliquid to the brink — and revealed decentralization limits

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With mainnet now live, Nillion looks to bring privacy-preserving compute to Web3

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Bitcoin ETF outflows are leveling off, Ethereum’s price action is increasingly sentiment-driven, and TradFi’s role in crypto is expanding

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What a Pyth/Morpho/Re7 debacle says about decentralized accountability

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New integrations grow EigenLayer’s role in Ethereum’s modular security stack

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The Interchain Foundation is open-sourcing evmOS under Apache 2.0 to streamline EVM adoption across the ecosystem

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New “Hoodi” testnet means the Pectra hard fork will be delayed to May

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Cryptographic breakthroughs are unlocking Bitcoin programmability — without changing a single line of Core code

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Trump’s embrace of crypto is a double-edged sword — without real legislation, the next administration could undo everything

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With Ethereum’s largest testnet stuck in limbo — unable to finalize — developers want to move on to avoid delaying Pectra’s rollout

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Kain Warwick says SNX staking is broken, and his solution is a leveraged, liquidation-free staking model that absorbs debt and scales yield

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Ethereum Foundation shakes up leadership as internal rifts settle

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While some propose meaningful security improvements, others are opportunistically using the breach to push tangentially related products

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Bitcoin’s dip, surging ETF outflows and Bybit’s $1.5 billion hack shakes investor confidence. What’s next?

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A misconfiguration on the testnet won’t impact Pectra’s mainnet launch, developers said

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Calls for a coordinated Ethereum “rollback” after the Bybit hack were bad-faith narratives designed to spread confusion

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Researchers found two identical transaction hashes five years apart on Ethereum and Base, which is highly unusual

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The Open Intents Framework and ERC-7683 simplify cross-chain transactions across Ethereum chains

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The proposal rewrites USDS borrowing rules for MKR holders — a strategic voting maneuver by founder Rune Christensen