Layer-1

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

The well-funded layer-1 is facing backlash from early users and airdrop farmers

The paper explores how it is possible to “slash” Bitcoin despite its limited scripting language

Arbitrum failed to settle on Ethereum after a pre-programmed “fail-safe” meant a critical node didn’t receive enough ETH for gas fees

Every time incremental improvements are made to the execution environment, “we launch a new layer-1,” Al-Bassam says

Market valuations for L1 projects have rebounded from the harsh conditions created by the fallout of several centralized crypto companies

Aptos, which some call a ‘Solana Killer,’ is not living up to the hype so far

Travis Kling dives into the implications of the ETH 2.0 merge and why ETH is prime for institutional capital

Illia believes NEAR’s culture, simplicity and dynamic scalability will bring the next billion users to crypto

Jason Yanowitz and Santiago Roel Santos talk about tokenomics, Yearn Finance, DeFi, fundraisers, and more.

Jason Yanowitz and Santiago Roel Santos talk about DeFi, layer-1, OpenSea, NFTs, Bored Apes and more

Jason Yanowitz and Santiago Roel Santos sit with Tushar Jain & Kyle Samani to discuss Multicoin’s past, crypto’s future, and lessons from building such a successful crypto fund.

Jason Yanowitz and Santiago Roel Santos sit with Antonio Juliano to hear about why and how dYdX plans to become the largest crypto exchange in the world and what the future of crypto looks like.

Avi Felman returns to give his predictions on the outlook for Bitcoin and Ethereum in 2022, discussing their value, momentum, use case and more.

Ryan Selkis and Mike Ippolito take a big seat to talk big predictions for crypto come 2022, including NFTs, Web 3, DAOs, and more.

Backers in the latest round include DARMA Partners, Aligned Capital, CMT Digital, the Delta Blockchain Fund, Fourth Revolution Capital and Quantstamp.

Throughput bottlenecks within layer-2 ecosystem make it unreliable, Multicoin Capital exec says.

Layer-1 competition is heating up