Bitcoin, Ether, and Major Altcoins in Deep Red
Bitcoin and Ether lead in liquidation heatmap with over $335 million in rekt positions in the last 12 hours.
Ethereum
Protocol Village: Beam to Launch on Immutable zkEVM, Gaming-Focused L2 With Polygon Tech
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Dec 7-Dec. 13, with live updates throughout.
The Protocol: Bitcoin Censorship, or Just ‘Spam Filtering?’
In this week’s issue of The Protocol newsletter, we’re highlight blockchain developers named in CoinDesk’s Most Influential list just out, including Blockstream’s Lisa Neigut, Polygon’s Jordi Baylina, Base’s Jesse Pollak and Optimism’s Karl Floersch.
DeFi Market Rebounds to $50B as Speculators Hunt for Yield
The total amount of capital locked or staked across all decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols reached $50 billion on Tuesday, the most in six months.
LOGIK: Tieshun ‘Pacman’ Roquerre ‘Knows His S–t’
The artist made an NFT of the Blur and Blast founder for our Most Influential package.
Bitcoin Sails Past $41K as Crypto Market Recovers to Pre-Terra Levels
The price of bitcoin hit $40,000 on Sunday for the first time in 18 months, while ether rose past $2,200.
Protocol Village: Blast, Envisioned as Layer-2 With Yield, Now Hiring
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Nov. 30-Dec. 6, with live updates throughout.
Celo Developer Proposes Mid-January Timeline for Evaluating Closely Watched Layer-2 Move
With hot competition between layer-2 technology providers like Optimism, Polygon and Matter Labs, Celo’s choice is being closely watched by the blockchain industry.
Protocol Village: Movement Labs Says ‘Move Virtual Machine’ to Use Celestia, Snowman
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Nov. 23-29, with live updates throughout.
Ethereum Layer 2 Blast Has Crypto Users Split on Its Impact
Blast, a layer-2 blockchain that will go live in March, has garnered more than $225 million in staked assets since Monday, but many crypto investors remain skeptical.