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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.”

T+0 is here

The MIT research-based protocol is live in private testnet — laying the foundation for decentralized RAM

The up-and-coming L2 aims to be the first chain with about a 1.7 gigagas/s speed

The encoded timekeeping system improves proof-of-stake, allowing the chain to quickly validate transactions

Some may argue that the current system is familiar and predictable, but the benefits of tokenization far outweigh the challenges

Leaders on both sides of the divide will need to develop new skills to fully harness new tech innovations

It may be counterintuitive that a high amount of focus on a technology would lead to security risks — but it’s true

Ethereum is becoming a multilayered lasagna-like system, pushing people to the margins with its complexity and fees