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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The Dencun hard fork hits Ethereum mainnet, the most significant upgrade since the Merge

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For the first time, a major Ethereum hard fork launches on another chain first

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Ether, while still about 20% away from an all-time high, has been accelerating in recent days, relative to bitcoin

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Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin, continues to befuddle FUDers by minting its way into an exclusive club worth over $100 billion

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Blast encouraged users to deposit into its multisig. Now they can finally exit

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Vitalik Buterin wants to firm up the account abstraction roadmap

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Celestia had the first mover advantage. EigenDA has staked ether. What sets Avail apart?

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Avalanche nodes recently began the Durango upgrade, which is scheduled to activate on its mainnet next month

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A bespoke smart contract layer, Soroban, is online after years of development

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From missing allocations to early vesting, Starknet’s “provisions” plan had a rough first week

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A proposal to allow venture firms to own cryptoassets, first put forward last year, moves closer to law

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Solana claimants and users of Ledger and Trezor have to jump through hoops

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The Optimism Mainnet underwent an hour of maintenance, but went down prematurely earlier today for 2 hours

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The long-awaited Starknet native asset STRK will soon be in the hands of 1.3 million eligible wallets

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One candidate solution is Axelar’s new Interchain Token Service, which automates the process of deploying across EVM-based networks

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A halt of the Solana blockchain prompted the release of a software patch

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Web3 development shop Hashcode Studio is tasked with building out the gaming giant’s magical spin on chess

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In hashing out the next hard fork after Dencun, developers commit to being noncommittal

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Add one more hack to Immunefi’s January report tally and you have over $130 million lost in January alone

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The Socket Tech team negotiated the return of stolen ETH from hacker