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As the race to deploy zero-knowledge technology heightens, we look into how zk rollups will make transactions more affordable

EigenLayer hopes to create a model that lets developers “easily consume trust, instead of needing to built trust”

The thief had a $1 million bounty on his head and got the attention of North Korean hackers

Cosmos will finally have its own native stablecoin, with Circle partnering with crypto startup Noble to deploy USDC directly to the ecosystem

Blockworks exclusive: Noble aims to help deepen liquidity across the Cosmos DeFi landscape

Voting members were presented with two options: keep USDC as the primary reserve backing its DAI stablecoin, or diversify

Arbitrum will no longer be entirely governed by Offchain Labs following tomorrow’s airdrop

Blockworks exclusive: SynFutures launches alpha for Tinder-style NFT trading app, allowing up to 3x leverage by swiping left and right.

The Ethereum Shapella hard fork is likely going to bring more investors into staking, MetaMask Institutional expects

While the dollar value of mined BTC historically falls after each halving, it has always recovered thanks to post-halving fund flows

Decentralized exchange Uniswap and NFT marketplace Blur top the ETH burned leaderboard in the past 30 days

Pseudonymous member 0xngmi said the argument about the token launch has been resolved and the fork is cancelled

The investment management company will extend its review period by an additional 180 days

Some financial professionals see the current banking crisis as a sign the system is weakening, lending further credibility to decentralization and accompanying infrastructure
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