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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]
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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Alongside the Polygon CDK, Arbitrum Orbit and OP Superchain, scaling approaches are advancing.
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If — and it’s a big if — Biden were to step aside, what would it do to the presidential election odds?
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Structured products are common in traditional finance, but onchain options are scant
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EIP-7702 was quickly adopted for the next Ethereum upgrade, but developers haven’t quite locked it down
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Matter Labs heralds “the largest distribution of tokens to users amongst major L2s”
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The industry-first general purpose zk programmable blockchain charts a fresh course
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Partnering with EtherFi and Angle, the fully on-chain perp DEX features bespoke collateral
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