0xResearch Newsletter

David Chaum’s ecash in the 90s offers insights into balancing priorities in DeFi today

With mainnet now live, Nillion looks to bring privacy-preserving compute to Web3

Bitcoin ETF outflows are leveling off, Ethereum’s price action is increasingly sentiment-driven, and TradFi’s role in crypto is expanding

The Interchain Foundation is open-sourcing evmOS under Apache 2.0 to streamline EVM adoption across the ecosystem

Aave DAO pushes back against Horizon token

New “Hoodi” testnet means the Pectra hard fork will be delayed to May

Fundamental investors are turning to token buybacks

Layer-2 Movement finally launched its mainnet yesterday

Cryptographic breakthroughs are unlocking Bitcoin programmability — without changing a single line of Core code

Trump’s embrace of crypto is a double-edged sword — without real legislation, the next administration could undo everything

Why is ZK the endgame?

With Ethereum’s largest testnet stuck in limbo — unable to finalize — developers want to move on to avoid delaying Pectra’s rollout

USDN lets apps and rollups distribute the underlying T-bill yield to users

Kain Warwick says SNX staking is broken, and his solution is a leveraged, liquidation-free staking model that absorbs debt and scales yield

Ethereum Foundation shakes up leadership as internal rifts settle

A national strategic reserve of XRP, SOL, ADA, ETH and BTC only makes sense as political theater

Markets are dumping but spirits remain high

While some propose meaningful security improvements, others are opportunistically using the breach to push tangentially related products

Bitcoin’s dip, surging ETF outflows and Bybit’s $1.5 billion hack shakes investor confidence. What’s next?

A misconfiguration on the testnet won’t impact Pectra’s mainnet launch, developers said

Calls for a coordinated Ethereum “rollback” after the Bybit hack were bad-faith narratives designed to spread confusion

The Open Intents Framework and ERC-7683 simplify cross-chain transactions across Ethereum chains

The AI platform looks to reshape Web3 marketing with yaps

With $800 million now flowing to creditors, some expect a market boost — yet many remain cautious after years of waiting