blockchain

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

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

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

Moca brings digital identities onchain as a privacy-forward alternative to existing single sign-on tools

Wyoming eyes Sei for its stablecoin pilot

The rebranded infrastructure company offers more than 200 Solana yield integrations

infiniFi is putting risk onchain, with depositors able to opt for different yields

The $135 million raise shows that TradFi giants are serious about crypto adoption

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

AI app and agent devs can train and run their own custom models using cloud compute

EigenCloud wants to make crypto-economic guarantees a plug-and-play primitive

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

Blockworks Research’s Boccaccio explains why he likes Plasma “overall”

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

StarkWare launches new consumer-grade hardware ZK prover

A single upgrade could reshape how Solana sequences, votes and finalizes.

Bitcoin launched 16 years ago, but investors still cannot agree on how to value blockchains

The network’s most ambitious upgrade since the Merge brings validator streamlining, smart account UX and doubled blobspace to Ethereum

Debate over extra Bitcoin use cases has returned, two years on from Ordinals

VCs are chasing the fabled layer-1 premium

Unto’s Will Yoo and Liam Heeger spoke to the Empire newsletter about their raise and how they plan to build Thru

Following a developer call Monday, EOF appears to be out of Fusaka fork

Ragnarok: Monster World says it upheld all “contractual obligations.”