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The Protocol: Restaking Tokens Are Exploding, and Restaking Isn't Even Live

[Feb 21 1:13 PM] In this week's issue of our weekly blockchain tech newsletter, Sam Kessler explores how "liquid restaking tokens" or LRTs are remaking decentralized finance. PLUS: Starknet's STRK airdrop, Stellar's smart-contract facelift and bitcoin's supply…

Bitcoin Zero-Knowledge Rollup Citrea Raises $2.7M in Seed Funding

[Feb 21 11:30 AM] Citrea says it plans to use zero-knowledge cryptography to help grow Bitcoin's budding decentralized finance (DeFi) and NFT ecosystems.

Former Fidelity International Digital Assets Executive Joins Advisory Board of Ethereum L2 Layer N

[Feb 21 11:24 AM] Luc Froehlich will help guide Layer N's Real World Asset, TradFi, and tokenization strategies.

As Crypto 'Points' Farming Grows, So Does Risk of Vague Promises

[Feb 21 9:29 AM] Liquid restaking protocols based on EigenLayer are offering "point" incentives attached to the vague prospect of future airdrops, but the trend carries risks.

Liquid Restaking Protocol Puffer Rakes in $1B in Deposits in Just 3 Weeks

[Feb 20 12:25 PM] Liquid restaking protocols are seeing ample demand from users as speculation mounts over potential applications for the Ethereum restaking juggernaut EigenLayer, and the prospects for rewards paid out to early users.

Stellar Starts Phased Rollout of 'Soroban' Smart Contracts

[Feb 20 11:40 AM] The "Protocol 20" upgrade, which adds support for Ethereum-style smart contracts to the decade-old payments-focused blockchain, had been delayed by three weeks due to precautions after a bug was found.

Liquid Restaking Tokens or 'LRTs' Revived Ethereum DeFi. Can the Hype Last?

[Feb 20 6:00 AM] New liquid restaking platforms like Puffer and Ether.Fi have attracted billions of dollars in deposits, but they've birthed a speculative "points" frenzy that carries some risks.

New Study Unveils the Total Cost to Attack Bitcoin and Ethereum

[Feb 16 1:00 PM] A newly published Social Science Research Network (SSRN) paper by Lucas Nuzzi, Kyle Waters, and Matias Andrade introduces a novel approach to calculating the Total Cost to Attack (TCA) Bitcoin and Ethereum. The comprehensive analysis sheds light on…

Apple Vision Pros Are Practically Dress Code at This Crypto Hacker House

[Feb 15 11:56 AM] Airdrop riches and FOMO are fueling a run on Apple's pricey VR headset at mtnDAO, the Solana blockchain's largest community-run coworking meetup, in Salt Lake City.

Protocol Village: QuickNode Adds Support for ZkSync Hyperchains

[Feb 15 9:30 AM] The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Feb. 15-21.

Crypto Money Laundering Dropped 30% Last Year, Chainalysis Says

[Feb 15 8:00 AM] Illicit addresses sent $22.2 billion in cryptocurrency to services in 2023, a decrease from $31.5 billion in 2022, and centralized exchanges remain the primary destination.

U.S. Cyber Authorities Investigate 'Binance Trust Wallet' iOS App for Vulnerabilities

[Feb 15 4:16 AM] The Binance-owned wallet has been the victim of multiple cyber attacks during 2023.

Telefónica Teams Up With Chainlink to Provide Security Against 'SIM Swap' Hacks

[Feb 15 2:30 AM] The partnership will be a "significant step" in integrating telecom capabilities into the blockchain technology, the firms said.

The Protocol: Bitcoin's OP_CAT, Fake Ethereum Tokens, Starknet's Airdrop

[Feb 14 12:11 PM] CoinDesk's Jamie Crawley takes a look at the suddenly-high-profile proposal to revive Bitcoin's historic "OP_CAT" function as a way of enabling more development on the oldest blockchain. PLUS: the unofficial "ERC-404" tokens driving up fees on…

Satoshi-Era Bitcoin Function 'OP_CAT' Dusted Off as Development Fervor Grows

[Feb 14 6:11 AM] Developers Ethan Heilman and Armin Sabouri view OP_CAT as a simple opcode that offers some of the general purpose functionality currently missing in Bitcoin.

Starknet Blockchain Plans Much-Awaited Airdrop of New STRK Tokens Next Week

[Feb 14 1:57 AM] The airdrop will happen on Feb.20, and eligible users have until June 20 to claim their tokens.

Ethereum Developers Create 'DN-404' Tokens After ERC-404s Send Network Fees Surging

[Feb 13 8:58 AM] The new token type claims to solve some of the drawbacks with ERC-404s, an experimental standard that launched last week – to such popularity that it's already driven up congestion on the Ethereum blockchain.

Ledger, Coinbase Pay Integrate to Give Users Direct Access to Buy, Sell Crypto

[Feb 13 8:00 AM] Bringing Coinbase Pay into the Ledger Live app is supposed to benefit Ledger users, making it easier to receive their crypto purchases from Coinbase directly on their Ledger hardware wallet, without any additional fees.

What Is ERC-404? The Experimental Standard Whose First Token Has Rocketed 12,000% in One Week

[Feb 9 5:04 AM] ERC-404 allows multiple wallets to directly own a single NFT, and, in the future, create a use case where that specific exposure can be tokenized and used to take out loans or stake holdings.

Protocol Village: Web3 Security Firm FuzzLand Raises $3M Led by 1kx

[Feb 8 12:41 PM] The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Feb. 8-14.

Layer-2 Blockchain Developer StarkWare Plans ‘Cairo’ to Verify Layer-3s

[Feb 8 12:03 PM] Cairo, which the StarkWare and the Herodotus developer team worked on together, is a key piece of technology that verifies proofs and posts them back to the layer-2 blockchain, instead of Ethereum’s mainnet.

Polygon Releases 'Type 1 Prover,' Claiming Milestone Set by Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin

[Feb 8 12:00 PM] The announcement means that existing EVM chains or optimistic rollups can connect to the prover without modification, then plug into Polygon’s newly released Aggregation layer, providing access to "all of the liquidity and value on Ethereum…

Ethereum Developers Target March 13 for Milestone 'Dencun' Upgrade on Mainnet

[Feb 8 8:30 AM] The timing for the long-awaited Dencun upgrade, with its much-touted "proto-danksharding" feature, was announced Thursday on a call with top developers for the Ethereum blockchain.

The Protocol: Solana's Missed Moment, Exclusive Farcaster Q&A, Bullish Year of Dragon

[Feb 7 1:15 PM] Even in a slow week ahead of the Chinese New Year, there's a lot of crypto news to cover. Here's this week's The Protocol, CoinDesk's weekly newsletter devoted to blockchain tech.

Farcaster's Dan Romero Explains How 'Frames' Did What X (Twitter) Doesn't

[Feb 7 10:12 AM] The decentralized social network Farcaster is enjoying a breakout after last week's introduction of "Frames" – a new feature that could attract attention from developers and, eventually, mainstream users. CoinDesk's Jenn Sanasie sat down with…

Social App Friendzone to Start Operations on Polygon Network This Month

[Feb 7 9:00 AM] Friendzone was built by early team members from Band Protocol, Synthetix and Koinly and targets the social application space.

Ethereum's Dencun Upgrade Reaches Final ‘Holesky’ Testnet, Starting Countdown to Data 'Blobs'

[Feb 7 6:12 AM] The test simulated “proto-danksharding,” a technical feature aimed at reducing the cost of transactions for rollups as well as making data availability cheaper.

Rollup Platform Dymension’s DYM Reaches $5.2B Valuation After Botched Start

[Feb 7 4:58 AM] As of Wednesday morning, validator “Big Brain Staking” holds over 35% of staked DYM tokens – attracting criticism from DYM holders for its large network influence.

Taproot Wizards' New Bitcoin NFTs Already Trading at Twice the Initial Sale Price

[Feb 6 5:02 PM] With almost two hours left for whitelisted buyers to claim the digital-art collectibles, at least 2,560 of the series of 3,000 had been claimed, at a fixed price of 0.1 BTC ($4,274 each).

Bitcoin NFT Project Taproot Wizards Sells Out First Collection, Raking in $13M

[Feb 5 2:26 PM] With almost two hours left for whitelisted buyers to claim the digital-art collectibles, at least 2,560 of the series of 3,000 had been claimed, at a fixed price of 0.1 BTC ($4,274 each).