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Even though a total of more than 50% of UNI tokens were in favor of turning on fees, it wasn’t enough for the feedback proposal to pass

Following its deployment on zkSync Era, Rocket Pool has no immediate plans to launch on other chains

Both Ethereum and Solana have enjoyed vibrant DeFi environments, but this has not yet been the case for Cosmos

Stablecoins offer global financial access and on-chain transactions without limitations, while FedNow falls short in terms of utility, global reach and inclusivity

Chaos has struck self-styled Web3 router Multichain and yuan-backed stablecoin issuer Trust Reserve across a matter of days

First, Rune Christensen says, understand human nature, then build mechanisms around it, as he did with MakerDAO’s Endgame update

The fastest way from point A to point B in blockchain often involves resorting to a centralized service at some stage

The processed message has been securely stored on Filecoin and is available to interested participants for analysis

To make Ethereum’s next major upgrade work, developers called on the public to help, and thousands responded

Decisions made by the DAO will be automatically implemented from mainnet to different sidechains

Following community backlash, Metaplex promptly back-pedaled from initial plans, removing some, but not all of the proposed fees

Avalanche is making moves to attract developers and DeFi liquidity with its latest feature rollout

The Curve community is gauging whether or not solid price oracles should be implemented in select pools with deep liquidity

Core DAO is bridging proof-of-work and delegated proof-of-stake to create the Satoshi Plus Consensus Mechanism

In a blog post, partly directed at the forthcoming Eigenlayer protocol, the Ethereum co-founder cautions against overloading consensus

Hunting for victims in Ethereum’s public mempool, automated searchers prey on transactions as they are discovered in a practice called MEV

Mango Markets exploiter Avraham Eisenberg’s prosecution sends a warning to attackers, while US sanctions against Tornado Cash raise risks for laundering stolen funds, according to TRM Labs

Why click a button to generate a seed phrase when you can solve quests for a fluffy cat on a GameBoy cold wallet?

This new NFT standard (ICS-721) will enable users to transfer their NFTs across blockchains
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