DeFi

BitVM3’s “garbled circuit” approach faces critical security and scaling research before it will be practical

Big blockers wasted a bitcoin fortune trying to prove a point

Celestia, NEAR and Tron are pursuing lower inflation

Sluggish validators, consider yourselves on public watch

TAPEDRIVE says it can make Solana data storage 1,400x cheaper

Buzzwords include: succinct universal proofs, zkVM, incrementally verifiable computation, distributed supercomputer and agentic AI

“Be your own bank” meets “be your own DJ”

Mainnet goes live with a 16-node federation, promising five-second block times, low fees and Bitcoin-native DeFi

Robinhood announced that it’s building an L2 and also plans to launch staking for US users

JavaScript fueled a toxic ad model for the internet, says Brendan Eich, but crypto and privacy tech could help us escape it

It took years of struggle to keep encryption free of government control

A vote ending Monday could introduce a new layer of security for Ethereum’s largest liquid staking protocol

Do stablecoins validate “crypto” beyond Bitcoin?

Upcoming Ethereum fork is shaping up as a focused, low-risk upgrade to tighten execution-layer performance

Bybit’s Byreal, Binance Alpha and Coinbase’s DEX integrations

When compliance meets composability — creating pre-trade rules on Uniswap

A new report by top Ethereum stakeholders projects ETH at $8000

Why nobody can ever truly “win” Bitcoin mining

A new middleware layer promises lightning-fast confirmations and private orderflow on Ethereum mainnet

Solana’s client ecosystem is growing, and that’s good news for decentralization

With over 5,000 participants, Union sets the stage for a high-speed, zero-knowledge interoperability layer

Real-time slashing, isolated vaults and a yield tug-of-war between sGHO and stkGHO

Celebrating Bitcoin’s “zero to 1,000%” moment

Pump.fun’s own token is coming soon, sources tell Blockworks