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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Matter Labs moves zkSync Era into public alpha phase at 10:00 am ET Friday

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The ninth major upgrade to the Cosmos Hub paves the way for the launch consumer chains, which lease security from established validators

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A startup building “security-focused developer tools” may sound square, but Cubist aims to take the edge off by taking care of the tricky and risky stuff

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The v9-Lambda upgrade, expected to take place next week, brings a new feature that may be key to Cosmos’ future

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Core developers set date for Goerli testnet deployment of March 14, but mainnet — and staked ether withdrawals — will have to wait until April

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A new cross-chain messaging protocol, comes out of stealth mode with a $4.5 million fundraise

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Binance chief says they will continue BUSD support but, “foresee users migrating to other stablecoins over time.”

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A global online hackathon, sponsored by Toyota, aims to produce “intra-company DAO support tools” for the auto giant

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“We want to be the Roblox for professional game developers,” Harman told Blockworks

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Moonstone’s assets were on the rise as an SBF entity poured in millions

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Aiming to deliver withdrawals on schedule in March, the latest all-core devs call scaled back Ethereum developers’ short-term ambitions

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TON has delivered standout returns as other cryptocurrencies have struggled

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Companies holding bitcoin in their treasuries have been hit hard in 2022

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ThorChain teams up with Trust Wallet to capture millions of potential new DeFi users

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Bucking the naysayers, developers on Ethereum’s All Core Devs call sounded optimistic, Thursday

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“We were able to minimize any damage,” Ankr team says, but Helio Protocol customers may disagree

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Negative sentiment and the Thanksgiving holiday were to blame, rather than fundamentals

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Wrapped ether is not like wrapped bitcoin, there are no “concerns” over Ethereum’s “solvency,” and staked ether withdrawals remain a high priority

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“No matter how bad this bear market gets, we are well positioned to grow our team,” Steve Newcomb CPO at Matter Labs says

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Why would FTX let a little thing like bankruptcy stop hundreds of millions of dollars in spot bitcoin and derivatives trade?

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Traders question what the utility of the FTT token will be with Binance in charge

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Magnus Granath, better known as Hodlonaut, sued the self-proclaimed ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ and won

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Following a claim of responsibility, debates rage on Twitter as to the ethics and legality of the endeavor

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“Crypto will become an important part of how customers transact,” says Suresh Kumar, the CTO of Walmart

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Polygon announces its zkEVM’s public testnet is live; Matter Labs zkSync mainnet is expected within weeks

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The veteran top-10 crypto has been chugging along since 2017, but with little adoption to show for it

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The SEC has charged Kim Kardashian for “unlawfully touting” obscure EthereumMax token

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What to watch when gauging the veracity of the “ultrasound money” thesis

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The last pre-Merge block became pricey blockchain real estate

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Watch Livestream | Despite being described by many as “one of the biggest events in crypto history,” if the Ethereum Merge goes to plan, you won’t even notice

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CEO Sam Bankman-Fried responded: “the website did wonky auto-refreshing for a lot of people”

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Two memes, one silly and sweet, one serious and consequential. After the Merge, will ether become deflationary?

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The final pre-Merge clients rolled out this week as the Ethereum community prepares for proof-of-stake liftoff

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The Terra founder alleges a TFL mole fed info to short sellers in Coinage interview, but he wants to put that behind him

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‘AMLA,’ a brand new regulator, will monitor crypto businesses in the European Union considered a risk for money laundering

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The Terraform Labs CEO gives first interview to Coinage, discusses Terra failure

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“The hacker kept on sending the funds to Binance in different ways, thinking we can’t catch it,” CEO Changpeng Zhao said

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Many projects have forked Ethereum, but few try to bring its full history along for the ride, and for good reason

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DAOs should be more democratic, less plutocratic, says Gitcoin co-founder

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The technology will reduce transaction costs and greatly increase throughput on a layer-2 rollup which inherits the security of Ethereum, the Polygon team says

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The CeFi company sent over $500 million to be managed by a prominent DeFi “whale” known as “0xB1”, before relations went sour in 2021

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Blockworks exclusive: The oracle — known as “Orion” — will help Cosmos chains hunt down accurate pricing over inter-blockchain communication

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The planned hard fork passed without incident, bringing the blockchain’s transition to proof-of-stake one step closer

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The latest legal setback for Do Kwon stems from an SEC investigation into TFL’s Mirror Protocol

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Umee, a cross-chain borrowing and lending DeFi hub, advocates for tighter integration between Cosmos and MakerDAO

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Porter Finance’s product launch enables DAOs, such as the one behind Ribbon Finance, to issue debt the DeFi way

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An eagerly anticipated consensus shift to proof-of-stake will take a few months longer, but the path is becoming clearer by the day

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The DeFi protocol has been embroiled in a class action lawsuit since last October

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A governance vote for “rebirth” has ended, but the next chapter of Terra has yet to be written

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The mammoth fund plans to deploy capital into crypto startups and other venture investments