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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Speculation about a DAT company steering Ethereum overlooks its governance: messy and resistant to corporate capture

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Gnosis is betting that openness — not ownership — will define the future of onchain money

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The perp DEX verifies matching and liquidations with custom zero-knowledge circuits and keeps user assets on Ethereum

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ETH ETF inflows fell in a 92% drop that highlights the fragility of demand as flows mirror price action

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EF report maps eight factions within the ecosystem, warning that short-term pragmatism is eclipsing the protocol’s founding vision

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Layer-2 zk rollup rolls out staking and incentives to lure wrapped bitcoin for holders in search of yield

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The self-styled web3 “operating system” launched its token, on Ethereum, but third-party dapps and AnomaPay are not yet live

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Fusaka testnet activations begin next week with a 60M gas limit bump in tow. Meanwhile, Ethereum core devs gear up for Glamsterdam’s first devnet

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A planned $100M Ether.fi sleeve and a $47M pufETH buy from Puffer signal DAT treasuries shifting toward long-horizon, policy-driven allocations

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Yield Basis’ will receive its crvUSD credit line after a large majority of the Curve DAO voted in favor, despite some controversy

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Optimum’s faster relay, tested by Everstake, could boost validator rewards today and help Ethereum move toward 6-second slots tomorrow

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Kraken teams with Legion’s reputation-based platform to debut with public sale of Yield Basis (YB), Michael Egorov’s new BTC-yield protocol

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Consensus clients rely on libp2p and any gaps in maintenance could threaten validator performance

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New integration makes EigenCloud the verifiable backbone for AI agents settling payments across cards, bank rails, and blockchains

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Lending giant is moving to ERC‑4626 share accounting and preparing to shutter underperforming networks, with 86% of revenue on Ethereum mainnet

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A four-week $2M audit contest kicked off Sept. 15 as Devnet-5 gets tested

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P2P.org launches pre-activated validators to bypass Ethereum’s sometimes multi-week entry queue.

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As the network gets more efficient, cheaper blockspace keeps revenue down

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The layer-2’s biggest release yet brings benefits — but a post-upgrade outage caused a chain reorg

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Following a roundtable, the startup emerges as frontrunner, despite entries from Paxos, Ethena, and others