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Ethereum's Changing Landscape
For investors, ETH’s future depends on how Ethereum balances innovation with maintaining healthy economic policy, says Matthew Kimmell, digital asset analyst, CoinShares.
By Matthew KimmellSep 25, 2024
Starknet Token Holders Ratify Plan to Implement Staking, in Landmark Decentralized Election
The new mechanism on Starknet means that anyone holding more than 20,000 STRK will be able to stake on the network, from the fourth quarter of this year.
By Margaux NijkerkSep 13, 2024
Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin Amps Up Pressure on Layer-2 Networks to Decentralize Further
In 2022, Buterin proposed a set of stages for rollups, to classify them in their pursuit of decentralization. The criteria is meant to showcase that rollups tend to rely on “training wheels” and deploy their protocols to users before it's ready to fully decentralize.
By Margaux NijkerkSep 12, 2024
Build-on-Bitcoin Trend Imports Another Concept from Ethereum: the DAO
RootstockCollective, a new decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO, is designed to encourage builders and users of Rootstock – one of the oldest and most closely watched projects among the fast-growing ranks of layer-2 blockchains built atop Bitcoin.
By Jamie CrawleySep 12, 2024
Restaking Protocol Ether.fi Selects Scroll as Layer-2 Network for Settlement
Scroll will be used to settle transactions on Ether.fi's Cash card.
By Oliver KnightSep 9, 2024
Snapshot, Popular DAO Voting Platform, Finally Moves On-Chain, Atop Starknet
Snapshot X, the new governance protocol, makes use of storage proofs – a cryptographic feature that StarkWare, the primary developer of Starknet, has helped innovate and embraced.
By Margaux NijkerkSep 9, 2024
Polygon Begins Token Swap, in Move to Allow More Issuance
The migration from Polygon's MATIC token to POL will also bring in some tokenomics changes with a new emission rate of 2% annually.
By Margaux NijkerkSep 4, 2024
Polygon to Start Much-Awaited Swap of POL Token for Longstanding MATIC
The migration to POL from MATIC will also bring in some tokenomics changes with a new emission rate of 2% annually.
By Margaux NijkerkSep 3, 2024
Matter Labs Restructures to Meet Changing Demands, Lays Off 16% of Team
The developer of Ethereum layer-2 protocol ZKsync said builders using the protocol now need a "different type of technology and support."
By Jamie CrawleySep 3, 2024
Solving Fragmentation Is Next Blockchain Race as Layer 2s Multiply, ZKsync Developer Says
Matter Labs CEO Alex Gluchowski told CoinDesk in an interview that fragmentation among layer-2 networks is the next big challenge the blockchain space needs to tackle.
By Margaux NijkerkAug 28, 2024