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The team behind
@fraxfinance
, known for creating the Frax stablecoin, has unveiled a plan to launch a Layer 2 blockchain on Ethereum: Fraxchain. Here's what I learned after talking with the founder
@samkazemian
(a🧵)
$fxs
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1/ Coinbase has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit lodged against it by the SEC. This motion asserts that even if all the allegations in the lawsuit are true, the plaintiff still does not have a valid legal claim. My latest for The Block: (a 🧵)
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Avalanche (
@avax
)'s Cortina upgrade went live on mainnet. Read about in my latest for The Block:
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.
@EvmosOrg
has released EVM Extensions, a set of stateful precomplied smart contracts, that allow EVM dApps to tap into the functionality of the entire Cosmos ecosystem and develop new multi-chain DeFi primitives. My exclusive for The Block:
$atom
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.
@osmosiszone
, the largest decentralized finance network in the Cosmos ecosystem, is leading the development of a new cross-chain security model called “mesh security,” with support from other Cosmos teams. Here's my latest for The Block:
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There's a upgrade for AvalancheGo — the software implementation of the blockchain in the Go programming language. Called “Banff 5,” it introduces a communication protocol for subnets called
#Avalanche
Warp Messaging. Here's my exclusive for
@TheBlock__
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EXCLUSIVE:
@EvmosOrg
is planning to deprecate Cosmos transactions and focus solely on the EVM in an effort to simplify development 🧑🏻💻
📷 This means the core network will support only Ethereum-based wallets and tools, instead of those designed for Cosmos. The shift is expected…
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- .
@nansen_ai
analysts found that 90% of Paypal's PYUSD supply is custodied by Paxos Trust.
- Around 7% of the total supply is accounted for by crypto exchanges.
- The Uniswap pools (PYUSD/WETH) and (PYUSD/USDC) have fewer than 50,000 coins in them.
- There are fewer than 10…
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People buy $ATOM thinking they are buying Cosmos — while most activity in the ecosystem occurs on Osmosis: $OSMO. ATOM is merely the native token of Cosmos Hub and is one of the several important chains in this ecosystem; yet, many people disregard anything outside ATOM. Hard…
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.
@0xPolygon
unveiled the 'Type 1 Prover' that will allow EVM-compatible chains to generate proofs and transition to validiums and ZK-rollups without hard forks, says Polygon co-founder
@_bfarmer
. Also, the upcoming AggLayer will enable unified liquidity across these validiums.…
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Here is my interaction with
@sandeepnailwal
about the plans of
@0xPolygon
to become Ethereum's leading scalability and interoperability platform.
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For a near $19 billion FDV, Celestia generates minimal revenue. Airdrops speculation (for $TIA stakers) is the only factor keeping the price afloat, and this will not be sustainable with the massive unlocks approaching, especially when the bear market arrives. Data credit:…
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The Wikipedia page on SBF was updated to include the description 'convicted fraudster.'
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.
@vegaprotocol
has opened up derivatives trading of crypto 'points', starting with EigenLayer.
"Points are a web2 mechanism — think airline miles — that have made their way into the crypto space in relation to airdrops." —
@Timccopeland
...
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Personal news: After covering all things crypto for nearly one and a half years at
@Crypto_Briefing
, I've now joined
@theBlock_
. Want to thank everyone at my former publication for a memorable stint; and look forward to exciting times at the new one. Here is my 1st article here:
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.
@akashnet_
added GPUs to its decentralized compute marketplace — as part of the mainnet 6 upgrade. These GPUs include Nvidia H100s & A100s chips capable of handling compute-intensive workloads like training AI models. More in my latest for The Block:
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🔺Ava Labs'
@_patrickogrady
proposed the Astra upgrade for Avalanche subnets to improve independent operation from the main blockchain.
🎟️The first phase aims to simplify tasks for subnet validators, reducing the need for them to validate the primary Avalanche network.
↪️If this…
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a16z-backed Celo to become an Ethereum Layer 2, per a
@cLabs
proposal
✅ will be an Optimistic Rollup
✅ leverage OP Stack to build the chain
✅ Plans to use the data availability layer 'EigenDA' by
@eigenlayer
✅ Plans a decentralized sequencer via Celo’s existing validators
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The ENS protocol will be used to launch a domain name called
@boxdomains
that will route Ethereum users to web browsers. It's set to rollout in September this year.
Here's my report after chatting with
@nicksdjohnson
and My Box founder
@JBrandelay
.
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Exclusive:
@Altiplanic_io
, the development firm working on
@EvmosOrg
, introduced a software mechanism that will enable the use of native Cosmos assets as ERC-20s on the EVM network without wrapping. Slated for release on an upcoming testnet, it will provide Evmos developers with…
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Ethereum core developers are considering raising the maximum validator balance from the current 32 ether (ETH) to 2,048 ether per validator. Why you ask? Read in my latest for
@TheBlock__
$ETH
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Wormhole has unveiled its own Cosmos-based blockchain called Gateway 🧐
🌟 It aims to link, via a single cross-chain liquidity router, multiple Cosmos chains including
@osmosiszone
@EvmosOrg
and
@SeiNetwork
🔎 Clearly, Gateway would serve as a competitor to
@axelarcore
that…
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The team at .
@0xPolygon
Labs said it plans to unify its L2 zero-knowledge chains in future using a common bridge or an 'interoperability layer' and employ 're-staking' [as part of the Polygon 2.0 network]. My latest for The Block:
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(h/t
@_bfarmer
)
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.
@dymensionXYZ
is working on the first EVM-compatible rollup in the Cosmos ecosystem that will integrate with IBC. The team said it's collaborating with
@EvmosOrg
and
@CelestiaOrg
on it and the project is in the testing phase. My latest for The Block:
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.
@sommfinance
, a Cosmos-based automated investment protocol, has launched the first Cellar --- a community-governed strategy on
@AaveAave
. (h/t
@zmanian
and the team)
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1/ Some time ago
@ercwl
(Eric Wall) created 'Eric's Orb,' a 1/1 NFT that grants access to personal consulting services, effectively tokenizing Wall’s time and expertise. (🧵)
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Breaking: Polygon Labs has proposed to form a 'protocol council' of 13 members to supervise smart contract upgrades. The list of proposed council members include
@zachxbt
,
@Mudit__Gupta
,
@ViktorBunin
,
@zmanian
,
@sassal0x
,
@drakefjustin
,
@jdetychey
,
@liz315
,
@jbaylina
and others.
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Imagine a network similar to TOR, but based on financial incentives rather than mere goodwill. In this system, self-executing smart contracts would govern all operations. The framework would rely on an open-source privacy system, with code executed exclusively on nodes. These…
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.
@zmanian
's Cosmos-based appchain .
@sommfinance
leverages
@axelarcore
's General Message Passing (GMP) protocol to connect its DeFi strategy vaults with Ethereum Layer 2 Arbitrum. Read more about it in my latest for The Block:
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The 24-hour trading volume of $XRP experienced a dramatic surge, jumping from $613 million to $11.2 billion between July 13 and 14, representing an 18-fold increase within a single day. Here's my latest The Block + everything you need to know in the 🧵:
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.
@noble_xyz
is rolling out tokenized securities in the Cosmos ecosystem. The first product, USYC, is a short-duration fund including U.S. treasury bills. More details here:
...
Also — listen to
@jelenaaa____
on The Scoop podcast [hosted by
@fintechfrank
]…
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$SOL has crossed the $40 mark for the first time since August 2022 👀
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.
@the_matter_labs
, the core developer of Ethereum Layer 2
@zksync
Era, has unveiled Boojum, a STARK-powered proof system capable of being run on consumer-grade GPU hardware and resulting in improved performance. Read more in my latest for The Block:
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The open interest for Litecoin futures derivative contracts has surpassed $420 million globally, reaching the highest level since the start of 2022 and comes just ahead of $LTC's upcoming halving event in 70 days. Here's my latest for
@TheBlock__
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Exclusive:
@swellnetworkio
is planning a 'restaked rollup' that incorporate actively validated services (AVS) via EigenLayer (such as EigenDA and decentralized sequencing). The mainnet is planned for the second half of this year.
- It will be developed using Polygon's chain…
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.
@sommfinance
crosses $50M in TVL! 👀
Beginning the year with $1M in TVL, Sommelier has reached an epic new milestone with $50M in protocol TVL 🤯
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.
@osmosiszone
- the largest decentralized exchange layer on
#Cosmos
- has introduced 'supercharged liquidity' pools with the aim of improving the capital efficiency on the network. Read more in my latest for The Block:
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Ethereum scaling project
@StarkWareLtd
has open-sourced the
#StarkNet
Prover, a crucial component of its StarkNet Layer 2 solution. Here's my latest for
@TheBlock__
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MEV bots have sandwiched more than $100 million from $pepe memecoin traders. Why are so many retail traders are not using any MEV protection?
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.
@axelarcore
launched the Interchain Token Service (ITS) -- pitched as a safer interoperability protocol for transferring ERC-20 tokens across EVM chains.
@SushiSwap
and
@MorphexFTM
are among the first to adopt it. Read more in my latest for The Block:
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.
@archwayHQ
, a new Cosmos Layer 1, has gone live on mainnet. The generalized L1 has a native design to auto share block rewards with dApps. Here's my latest for The Block:
(h/t) Archway co-founder
@andergri
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.
@agility_lsd
, a DeFi platform focusing on liquid staking derivatives, has seen its total value locked rise fivefold over the last week -- to cross $330 million. LSDfi maybe here already after Shapella. Here's my latest piece for The Block:
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Certain documents related to former SEC director William Hinman have been released in the agency's lawsuit against Ripple Labs. Here's my latest for
@TheBlock__
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Breaking:
@0xPolygon
will be changing its native $MATIC token to a new token called $POL. Read more in my latest for The Block:
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A group of pseudonymous developers working on an information markets protocol called Freatic (
@freaticteam
) transitioned from stealth mode today, securing $3.6 million in a seed round led by
@a16zcrypto
. Read more in my exclusive coverage for The Block.
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@friendtech
@theblock_
Did you store Twitter handles on-chain, or were they scraped from your server? Even if you can check on your app to link an associated wallet with an FT account, it’s a bad take to say it’s all on a public ledger. Did your users wish to place their Twitter handles in a public…
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.
@CoinDesk
attributed my report on Mirror's 90 million hack for
@TheBlock__
Well, thank you for doing so 🫡
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On-chain data shows that a few moderators linked to Reddit’s Cryptocurrency subreddit liquidated large amounts of Moons before Reddit publicly announced the end of its Community Points program. Here's my latest for The Block:
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"It's a brutal market." - Frank Chaparro
"I think it's a big wake up call for people that are in the market...it looked nice when you had the juicy yields but behind the scenes was a huge amount of irresponsible risk-taking."
@fintechfrank
explains the depths of the crypto contagion and what parties are still at risk.
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2/ Coinbase raised concerns about the SEC’s interpretation of securities laws, suggesting the agency might be reaching beyond its legal authority.
The SEC asserts any platform facilitating the trading of assets, which it defines as securities, must register with it.
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Here is my latest article on how the Chinese
#opensource
community is advancing domestic
#artificialintelligence
ecosystem.
Thanks for the tweet
@SpirosMargaris
😍
How The
#Chinese
#OpenSource
Ecosystem
Is Thriving And Advancing
#AI
#fintech
#ArtificialIntelligence
#MachineLearning
#DeepLearning
#BigData
@_vishalchawla
@Analyticsindiam
@psb_dc
@YuHelenYu
@sallyeaves
@HaroldSinnott
@andi_staub
@DioFavatas
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Chainlink co-founder wants to bring trillions of dollars into crypto from banks.
An exclusive by
@Timccopeland
for The Block!
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@gregosuri
Ser, you run the largest decentralized compute marketplace in the world. Don't sell yourself short
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Contributors to Uniswap, the leading decentralized exchange, have initiated discussions to deploy on Coinbase-backed Layer 2 blockchain
@BuildOnBase
. Here's my latest for The Block:
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.
@AaveAave
has activated the $GHO decentralized stablecoin on the Ethereum mainnet — executing the now-approved AIP put forth by Aave DAO earlier this week. Read more in my latest for The Block:
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Breaking: The public launch of Base (
@BuildOnBase
) is set for August 9 and the team has released the official bridge today. Read more here in my latest for
@TheBlock__
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Analysts like
@Mudit__Gupta
say the hacker likely took advantage of the ‘vanity address’ vulnerability first discovered by
@1inch
last week. Read how the hacker calculated the admin a/c key of Wintermute's vault to steal $160 million in my latest piece.
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$150 million+ has been added to Maker's DSR since last week — with the savings rate climbing to 8%.
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Former
@solanalabs
members have formed a developer shop "Anza," which will release a new validator client for Solana called Agave (forked from the original Solana Labs client)🍴
After
@jito_sol
,
@jump_firedancer
,
@tinydancerio
, client teams on Solana continue to expand. More on…
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A slew of tech updates, ecosystem news, and raises covered today by
@TheBlock__
, some exclusive — others not, but still ahead of the curve.
@UMAprotocol
rolls out Oval to capture 'oracle extractable value'
.
@aevoxyz
intends to open up its rollup for…
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6/ The filing also claimed inconsistencies in the SEC’s decisions, stating that the SEC had not raised objections to six of these tokens in question during its dealings with Coinbase in 2021. This was when the SEC approved Coinbase to go public after an extensive review.
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$BTC is primed for a 20-30% pullback. I think a correction to $50-60k is likely and would still maintain the bullish trend over the long term. However, if it does pull back — alts (especially memecoins) would get rekt!
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One of the most bizarre aspects of crypto is probably its YouTube community — which exists in its own bubble of Cardano, Ripple, Kaspa, and Quant!
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Synthetix has set its sights on launching Perps v3 and the CEX-competitor front end, Infinex, in the fourth quarter of this year. Learn more in this exclusive piece by
@Timccopeland
for The Block.
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The only blockchain that has successfully addressed the blockchain trilemma, in my opinion, is Solana. Some people believe it is centralized, but this is not the case (it has like over 2k validators). Evidently the fastest, most decentralized chain available
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5/ In its suit, the SEC labeled 12 crypto tokens traded on Coinbase, including $SOL, $ADA, $MATIC, SAND, FLOW, $ICP, $NEAR, and DASH, as securities. However, in their Thursday filing, Coinbase countered by claiming that these assets in question do not qualify as securities.
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The team at
@BuildOnBase
will work on decentralizing the network by implementing fault proofs and using diverse client software, it said. My latest for The Block:
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.
@Wipro
joins
@hashgraph
#blockchain
as a governing council member.
#hedera
uses
#hbar
#cryptocurrency
for rewarding the nodes.
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Seeing a lot of on-chain liquidations in this pullback. I guess people were over-leveraged, thinking it was the start of the bull run (which it still is)
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Celestia (
@CelestiaOrg
) is expected to launch tomorrow on mainnet — along with its native token $TIA becoming available for trading on centralized exchanges including Kucoin and Bybit. Read more in my latest for The Block
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Scammers are impersonating
@TheBlock__
staff members on Discord. If I or anyone from The Block reaches out with an offer [while asking for crypto] via Discord or other platforms, note that it maybe someone trying to scam you. Read more here:
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4/ The SEC defines a 'security' as an investment contract, which, as interpreted by the Supreme Court in the Howey Test, includes transactions where individuals invest in a common enterprise with the expectation of profits derived from the efforts of others.
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.
@cosmology_tech
— a development platform focused on the Cosmos ecosystem that provides tools like 'Telescope and Cosmos kit,' — has raised $5 million in seed funding. More details here in my exclusive for
@TheBlock__
:
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3/ Previously, the SEC filed a lawsuit alleging that Coinbase facilitated unregistered trading in 12 digital tokens that the agency has deemed securities. This claim has been hotly contested by the exchange in its latest response.
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Fraxchain’s governance will be led by the holders of Frax Shares ( $FXS ) tokens. For gas fees, the Fraxchain network will employ the use of Frax Ether ( $frxETH ), Frax's liquid staking derivative and the Frax stablecoin.
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South Korean government has been interested in deploying applications on Icon's enterprise
#blockchain
for many years.
However, the enterprise blockchain sservice has nothing to do with $ICX token.
#Crypto
#cryptocurrency
South Korean blockchain firm Iconloop will test a new digital driver's license system that utilizes decentralized identifiers
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.
@0xPolygon
has unveiled a new governance model for Polygon 2.0 roadmap:
🟣 The new model will create “three governance pillars,” each for governance of core protocol, smart contracts & community treasury.
🟣 Also includes a new Polygon Improvement Proposal (PIP) framework & an…
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Here is my article post talking with
@tarunsmehta
, CEO of
@atherenergy
R&D and insights have led to some great
#innovation
led features. The
#Ather
team has been able to improve many of the
#scooter
#hardware
by
#software
upgrades.
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2/ It was released in April at auction, only to now encounter a sudden challenge after its single anonymous holder, who goes by pawle.eth, relinquished ownership after facing a 300% annual Harberger tax designed into the NFT.
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.
@synthetix_io
founder Kane Warwick (
@kaiynne
) has come up with twelve proposals to propel the project into the next phase, including the SNX token 3:1 split and 'buyback and burn' strategies😲
Read here in my latest for The Block:
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@Timccopeland
we are gonna make money off your eyeballs, and pre-sell tokens to further enrich our billionaire buddies.
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1/ L2 chains that have implemented blobs have seen their average tx. fees drop dramatically. The median gas fees on
@base
fell from around $0.5 on March 13 (prior to Dencun) to $0.002 now. Similar reductions were observed in other OP chains. (🧵)
...
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I'm curious about which data
@jpmorgan
analysts are examining on ETH stakes. Whatever it is, it's not really accurate. Lido's market share in ETH remains around 29.6%, not exactly a "quarter." Lido's ETH stakes increased from 6 million ETH last year to 9.5 million ETH now,…
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Cosmos devs recently launched a similar model called replicated security (or interchain security), one that allows new Cosmos blockchains to derive their security from the Cosmos Hub. The first blockchain to go live with this mechanism was Neutron.
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