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pump.fun’s anonymous founder said they would work to protect users from seeing “repulsive/dangerous content”
A call for regulation or a ban on the memecoin launcher is presently trending across Twitter
SUI has outperformed APT by a large margin on a YTD basis after overtaking Aptos in market cap in mid-September
Turns out that owning the end-user via a crypto wallet is quite a prosperous business
As EIP-4844 “blobs” transform the economics of Ethereum layer-2s, a growing debate pits long-term scalability against immediate ETH value
The two largest crypto exchanges respectively run the second- and sixth-largest Solana validators
Perena is built on the premise that as stablecoins proliferate, liquidity could fragment, and stablecoins aren’t useful if they aren’t liquid
The third-largest stablecoin is going multichain for the first time in its seven-year history
Ethereum’s Python-inspired smart contract language recently celebrated a birthday, despite funding challenges and waning adoption
Ethereum Foundation researcher Mike Neuder argued that ETH can serve as a secure, global currency
Some of Ethereum’s top minds shared a kumbaya moment at Devcon around uniting Ethereum’s fragmented ecosystem
Reflect is a delta-neutral currency protocol that lets tokens accrue yield without touching the banking system
Researcher Justin Drake’s Beam Chain proposal aims to transform Ethereum’s consensus layer with zk proofs and post-quantum cryptography
Daily validator revenue has been in excess of $30 million every day since mid-October
As part of SIP-411, KWENTA tokens will be redeemable for SNX and subsequently deprecated
Ethereum’s 200th ACD call brought updates on the Pectra upgrade and the new Mekong testnet — just in time for Devcon in Thailand
New research points to a proof-of-concept that could accelerate future consensus on Bitcoin upgrades
CEO Vijay Chetty said Eclipse is “uniquely positioned as the first solution to bridge the gap between Solana and Ethereum”
Polymarket’s underlying blockchain chugged along more or less smoothly, processing 2,921,668 transactions on election day
Blue Sheets Simple-Earn offers a new route to fixed-rate lending on EVM chains
Platforms like Polymarket and Drift’s BET show higher probabilities for a Trump victory, reflecting current market sentiments
While DAOs promote transparency and community involvement, underlying centralized mechanisms reveal the challenges in achieving full decentralization
Optimistic rollups like Optimism, Arbitrum and Base are seeing rapid adoption relative to zk rollups
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