dApps
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The term DePIN has become a buzzword — and many projects are misusing it to attract attention
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Celestia had the first mover advantage. EigenDA has staked ether. What sets Avail apart?
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Despite their initial promise, public testnets are an insufficient and incomplete way to test dapps
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“Code” will be one of the first Solana-based projects to open source its code using the MIT license
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Digital payments company Wirex is the latest to jump into the self-custody card arena, following moves earlier this year by Gnosis and Suberra
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Fidelity Digital Assets, in addition to producing research, backed crypto exchange EDX Markets
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Base, Coinbase’s layer-2 that’s been on the horizon since February, is seeing early success so far
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The marketplace has a UX similar to Web2, making it easier for non-Web3 natives to use
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Users can customize the beginning and end of their addresses when deploying a new Safe
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Lead engineer Heaney says it’s all about making it as easy as possible to get to Drift
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A newly proposed Ethereum ERC standard would make it easy to adopt sensible rate limiting on many DeFi protocols
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Blockworks Exclusive: The fund will differentiate itself from crypto investments firms by offering “broad exposure” across the Web3 ecosystem, managing partner Benjamin Cohen said
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