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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Offchain Labs’ Tandem will work exclusively with Succinct on a zkVM

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The GENIUS-compliant cUSD stablecoin surges past $67M in one week

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Supporters call the proposal a credit line to scale crvUSD, but critics warn it could set a dangerous precedent

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Singapore’s largest bank is issuing crypto-linked structured notes on Ethereum, but the tokens will remain permissioned

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Exchange says all validators now run in distributed clusters, boosting decentralization and fault tolerance

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EigenLayer founder Sreeram Kannan says the distinction comes down to what Ethereum enforces onchain

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Fears that rollups would abandon Ethereum haven’t materialized — instead, chains like Celo and Lisk have migrated the other way

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The company will pay a $0.05 dividend and a $0.35 ETH loyalty payout in ether

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From Ronin’s classic L2 pivot to Taiko’s based rollup and Puffer’s ultra-low-latency appchain testnet, Ethereum-aligned architectures are multiplying

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Does Circle’s Arc threaten Ethereum’s “stablecoin chain” moat, or does EVM gravity pull flows back anyway?

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Founder Michael Egorov reflects on the mystery, CRV’s role in DeFi, and what’s next

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Offchain Labs’ acquisition of ZeroDev marks a shift toward full-stack developer tooling

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Perp DEX Extended migrates from StarkEx to Starknet, with a UX that keeps EVM traders out of the bridge lane entirely

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The maturity of ZK proving systems flips the L2 security/UX tradeoff, with lower perceived tech risk

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Some client teams want at least an extra 4 weeks on the rollout timeline

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Roman Storm was found guilty in a case experts say criminalizes non-custodial code

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Pendle’s new platform transforms perp funding into tradable yield units — paving the way for a full-stack onchain fixed-income ecosystem

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A 29-minute halt in block production briefly froze Base, but DeFi dodged the bullet

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New “Lean Ethereum” vision transforms a network-layer refactor into a long-term roadmap for post-quantum security

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Builders weigh in on Ethereum’s first decade and the decisions that will define its next one