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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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

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Acquisition of Copium Capital’s strategies strengthens Barter’s offering, but raises questions about solver concentration

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Client engineers and coordinators earn far less than researchers, despite playing key roles in network stability

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Tempo’s announcement reignites debates over Ethereum fast finality and whether corporate chains can ever be truly neutral

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YO’s new yoEUR vault lands as incentives try to pull EURC onchain, but fragmented bridges and caps keep markets segmented

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Season One of the DeFi Renaissance Incentive Program (DRIP) will distribute up to 24 million ARB to users

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Lit Protocol’s Vincent is shifting agentic finance from toy demos to production rails

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A new Earn tab on stake.lido.fi surfaces curated vaults, for one-click blue-chip strategies

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UNI holders will decide on creating “DUNI,” a Wyoming Decentralized Unincorporated Nonprofit Association

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World Liberty Financial opened WLFI claims at 8:00 am ET, driving a rush of on-chain transactions that pushed Ethereum gas into triple digits

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Developers debated the buffer between client releases and the first testnet fork in an effort to keep Fusaka on schedule

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Despite incentives and a sweeping rebrand from MakerDAO, USDS growth has stalled and DAI is quietly resurging

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External Rewards let protocols distribute native token incentives to stakers and node operators

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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