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A 29-minute halt in block production briefly froze Base, but DeFi dodged the bullet

New “Lean Ethereum” vision transforms a network-layer refactor into a long-term roadmap for post-quantum security

BAM, DoubleZero and Alpenglow will drive the new upgrades

Blockchains, when done right, are built to last forever

Poseidon turns to the last great frontier in AI: IP-cleared, real-world data, coordinated, licensed and monetized onchain

History shows Bitcoin consensus can be messy

The new system is “basically decentralizing ourselves,” Jito Labs CEO Lucas Bruder said

Shuffle, Stake and Rollbit are some companies betting on blockchains

The network got slower in June — and it wasn’t for tech-related reasons

EigenLayer, Lido and Taiko are buying verifiable compute

Firedancer has yet to go fully live, but its progress has been “pretty impressive,” a dev said

Data shows frontrunning has declined on the network compared to last year

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

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