Ethereum Layer-2 Teams Welcome Proposal to Overhaul Blockchain
Far from making zero-knowledge rollups obsolete, the Beam Chain would make them work better, says Polygon. zkSync builder Matter Labs is also bullish.
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Sui Network Back Up After Scheduling Bug Leads to Two-Hour Downtime; SUI Recovers
The downtime was caused by a bug in its transaction scheduling.
The Protocol: ENS on Bitcoin; Worldcoin, Without the Eyeballs
Plus: What Zuck can teach DAOs about governance.
Decentralized AI Project Morpheus Goes Live on Mainnet
Like other decentralized AI networks, Morpheus seeks to curtail the negative side effects of AI, such as centralization, censorship, and data monopolies.
Aave Gauges Community Interest for Expansion to Bitcoin Layer 2 Spiderchain
The potential deployment on a Bitcoin layer-2 by the largest DeFi lending protocol highlights the appetite for harnessing the original blockchain for purposes that are commonplace elsewhere in the crypto ecosystem.
The Protocol: Reinvent Ethererum, and Just Don’t Break Bitcoin
In founding editor Bradley Keoun’s last issue of The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly newsletter devoted to blockchain technology, we’re covering Trump’s DOGE whistle and the slew of announcements from the big Ethereum conference Devcon in Bangkok.
Blockchain Analyzer ‘Bubblemaps’ Adds AI to Help Identify Insider-Controlled Tokens
The app’s new update seeks to boost transparency in the market by exposing token ownership patterns that may indicate centralization or manipulation.
In Win for Polygon’s AggLayer, Magic Labs Unveils Chain Unification Network ‘Newton’
Newton will allow for wallet solutions to plug into the AggLayer, which is a Polygon-backed effort to connect affiliated chains and allow tokens to freely move between them. Magic Labs claims its the first dedicated network for wallet solutions and chain unification.
Bitcoin Developers Working With StarkWare, Blockstream Claim Breakthrough on New Features
Figure from the just-published paper (Heilman, Kolobov, Levy, Poelstra)