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OP_CAT Proposal to Bring Smart Contracts to Bitcoin Finally Gets a 'BIP Number'

[Apr 24 4:03 PM]

The Protocol: Analyzing Runes Impact as Bitcoin Fee Bonanza Fades

[Apr 24 11:45 AM]

Some Square Users Can Now Convert Their Dollars to Bitcoin Via Cash App

[Apr 24 8:00 AM] Bitcoin Conversions will charge a flat 1% fee to automatically convert a portion of merchant revenues into BTC.

Galaxy, Lightspeed Faction Lead $15M Raise for Turnkey, Crypto Wallet Startup From Former Coinbase Employees

[Apr 23 7:00 AM] The company from ex-Coinbase employees aims to help developers build better blockchain wallets.

Patched Cosmos Bug Could've Put $150M At Risk, Says Firm That Reported It

[Apr 23 7:00 AM] The reentrancy bug was discovered by Asymmetric Research, a core contributor to the Wormhole interoperability protocol.

Stacks Begins 2-Step Rollout of Major ‘Nakamoto’ Overhaul

[Apr 22 2:18 PM] The upgrade seeks to solve congestion issues, and will officially launch in May.

Celo Chooses Optimism, Concluding Bake-Off Among Layer 2s

[Apr 22 7:00 AM] CLabs officially proposed using Optimism’s OP Stack for the transition. The proposal will be discussed on a couple of community calls and then go to a vote among holders of the project's CELO tokens, under the chain's governance rules.

Bitcoin Miners Reap Windfall as 'Runes' Debut Sends Transaction Fees to Record Highs

[Apr 21 2:18 PM] The Bitcoin "halving" was supposed to dramatically chop revenue of bitcoin mining companies. Instead, the simultaneous launch of Casey Rodarmor's Runes protocol has ignited a flurry activity on the oldest and largest blockchain, driving up fees.

The Bitcoin Halving Is Here, and With It a Giant Surge in Transaction Fees

[Apr 19 6:16 PM] Soccer has the World Cup. Athletics and many other sports have the Olympics. Crypto has the halving. The milestone in the blockchain's 15-year history technically means a cut in rewards for crypto miners with each block – a feature designed to…

Avail Confirms Token Airdrop Plans, a Week After Leaked Screenshots

[Apr 18 1:38 PM] Avail shared in a blog post that 354,605 wallet addresses are eligible to claim the 600 million tokens in their “unification drop.”

Protocol Village: Safe, for 'Smart Accounts,' Completes Acquisition of Crypto Business Wallet Multis

[Apr 18 8:53 AM] The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of April 18-24.

Union Labs Plans Polygon-to-Cosmos Bridge with New AggLayer Integration

[Apr 18 5:00 AM] The new technology from Union Labs comes after the blockchain interoperability project raised $4 million in November.

The Protocol: Bitcoin Halving Spectacular, With Runes, 'Epic Sat,' Stacks Nakamoto

[Apr 17 12:49 PM] Unlike the last Bitcoin halving, a ho-hum affair where Covid-locked-down gawkers had little choice but to tune into livestreamed watch parties, the upcoming Bitcoin halving comes with project launches, competitions and IRL celebrations in Denver…

Kraken Releases Own Crypto Wallet, Joining Competition With Coinbase, MetaMask

[Apr 17 9:00 AM] According to a blog post shared with CoinDesk, the new Kraken Wallet will be the first from a major exchange to be open-sourced.

Worldcoin, Sam Altman's Crypto Project, Is Building a Layer-2 Chain

[Apr 17 9:00 AM] The human-focused blockchain network will be based on the OP Stack, a framework for building Ethereum-based layer-2 chains.

P2 Ventures Commits $50M Via Hadron FC to Startup Founders in Polygon Ecosystem

[Apr 17 5:00 AM] P2 was spun out out of Polygon Labs last year and now is allocating funds and mentorship to support project founders, including those focused on the Polygon blockchain ecosystem. A Hadron FC contributor said the community offered the right "capital…

Runes, Casey Rodarmor's Protocol for 'Sh!tcoins' on Bitcoin, Set to Go Live at Halving

[Apr 17 12:00 AM] Rodarmor created last year's breakout Ordinals protocol, which is used to create non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on Bitcoin. Now, he says the relevance of protocols like his new Runes, used to create fungible tokens, is set to grow.

OG Bitcoin L2 Stacks Is Getting a Major Overhaul

[Apr 16 7:34 AM] The Nakamoto update will decouple block production from Bitcoin itself, solving the problem of network congestion Stacks has had since it launched its mainnet in 2021.

Solana DEX Drift to Airdrop 100M Tokens in Weeks

[Apr 16 5:52 AM] Some surprise winners in Drift's road to decentralization include MetaDAO.

Liquid Restaking Protocol Puffer Raises $18M, Led by Brevan Howard, Electric Capital

[Apr 16 4:00 AM] The fresh round of capital will be used to help launch Puffer’s mainnet.

Crypto Exchange OKX's Polygon-Powered Layer 2, 'X Layer,' Hits Public Mainnet

[Apr 15 8:00 PM] The news about X Layer comes as other major cryptocurrency exchanges, like Coinbase and Kraken, have also pursued their own layer 2 networks over the last year.

Solana Rolls Out Update to Tackle Network Congestion

[Apr 15 1:48 AM] A meme coin trading frenzy and a rapid spike in users has stressed the network in recent months.

Bitcoin Halving Has Crypto Miners Racing for 'Epic Sat' Potentially Worth Millions

[Apr 15 1:00 AM] Bitcoin's once-every-four-years "halving" this week may be very different from those of earlier epochs, typically ho-hum affairs. Now, an intense competition is underway to mine the first block after the halving, which could contain a rare and…

Avail, Blockchain Data Availability Project, Sketches Out Eligibility for Token Airdrop

[Apr 12 12:24 PM] A screenshot of a document describing the eligibility criteria for the airdrop was posted on the social-media platform X by the user @Bitcoineo, and Avail’s public-relations team flagged the to tweet to CoinDesk, describing it as a "leak."

Ether.Fi Inks $500M Restaking Deal With RedStone Oracles

[Apr 12 2:00 AM] Under its deal with RedStone, Ether.Fi will dedicate $500 million to help secure RedStone's data oracles, which are used to pass information between blockchains and the outside world.

Ethereum's Next Upgrade, 'Pectra,' Could Include Relief for Institutional Stakers, Wallet UX Improvements

[Apr 11 12:07 PM] Developers' aim with Pectra is to make some minor code changes while simultaneously working on a bigger code change, Verkle trees, for the following upgrade.

Protocol Village: Tate Berenbaum Launches 'AO Ventures,' With $35M for Arweave Development

[Apr 11 10:21 AM] The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of April 11-17.

Chainlink Aims to Make Transfers Across Blockchains Safer with New Bridge App 'Transporter'

[Apr 11 10:00 AM] The bridge leverages Chainlink's CCIP tech, and allows users to transfer crypto assets across multiple blockchains, starting with Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, BNB Chain, Ethereum, Optimism, Polygon, and WEMIX.

MarginFi Leader Resigns on Fiery Day for Major Solana Lender

[Apr 10 10:37 PM] "The main problem was our lack of organizational execution," MarginFi's longtime leader Edgar Pavlovsky told CoinDesk.

The Protocol: How to Engineer Harder Money, or Just Make Your Own

[Apr 10 12:10 PM] Bitcoin's supply growth is set to automatically drop by 50% when next week's "halving" arrives, Ethereum is pondering a cut in ETH issuance, and meme coin issuers are just no-holds-barred spinning up new ones. Blockchain tech is enabling all sorts…