EVM

Ethereum’s Python-inspired smart contract language recently celebrated a birthday, despite funding challenges and waning adoption

CEO Vijay Chetty said Eclipse is “uniquely positioned as the first solution to bridge the gap between Solana and Ethereum”

Geth may curtail support if EOF goes AWOL

As devnets make progress, fears of overloading the next hard fork creep in

Plus, a Dragonfly partner shares his view on the crypto VC market, and a mining hardware firm raises $80 million

Monad is set to go to mainnet by the end of 2024

Outside of EVM smart contract deployments, general contract deployments are most commonly seen on Polygon and BNB chains

Vitalik Buterin wants to firm up the account abstraction roadmap

Blockworks exclusive: Sei takes another step toward offering users a parallelized EVM

One candidate solution is Axelar’s new Interchain Token Service, which automates the process of deploying across EVM-based networks

In hashing out the next hard fork after Dencun, developers commit to being noncommittal

Offchain Labs’ tech lead Rachel Bousfield breaks down some misconceptions on the effectiveness of parallel EVMs

Parallel execution is a small fraction of the bigger picture

The IBC-built EVM chain announced Cosmos transactions would be deprecated by 2024 Q3, streamlining the software

The EVM will not retain 95% market dominance, Mumtaz says. “That’s just never happened”

The proposal wants to make AXL deflationary and introduce necessary infrastructure to simplify the blockchain integration process

Scaling at the execution layer has a long way to go, says Offchain Labs’ Jordan

Squid uses the decentralized exchange Osmosis to make token swaps; these assets are then routed to the wider Cosmos ecosystem

BitGo raised by far the most capital this week, though it didn’t reveal who put up the money

The funding will be put towards developing a layer-1 blockchain to connect “all chains”

The trick is to have all the liquidity and trading happening in one place, Tabatabai says

The token bridge is designed to bring in a new wave of DeFi activity onto Linea.

Yup’s Kabessa says “Twitter is our core competitor, rather than each other”

Cosmos chain Sommelier facilitates multichain yield opportunities using Axelar general message passing