‘Wartime CEO’: Urbit’s Founder Returns in Shakeup at Moonshot Software Project
“We’re here to fix this,” Curtis Yarvin says of the struggling endeavor to rebuild the entire internet computing stack from scratch.
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Dark Pools Dominate Ethereum as Private Transactions Surge – at Least by One Measure
More Ethereum transactions are going private, getting sent directly to validators in a so-called “dark pool” arrangement (Hubert Robert/Metropolitan Museum of Art, modified by CoinDesk using Photomosh)
Bitcoin Staking Platform Babylon to Start Phased Mainnet Launch This Week
Allnodes, Figment and Galaxy Digital are among the finality providers.
Fabric, Startup Building ‘VPU’ Chips for Cryptography, Raises $33M
Fabric Cryptography, a startup focused on hardware, has raised $33 million in a Series A fundraising round. (Creative Commons)
Bitcoin’s Programmability Draws Closer to Reality as Robin Linus Delivers ‘BitVM2’
Robin Linus, at the Bitcoin Nashville conference in July (Bradley Keoun)
Chaos Labs Raises $55M as Demand Grows for On-Chain Risk Management
The influx of capital comes as Chaos Labs, founded in 2021, looks to expand its platform, designed to address the growing need for automated risk management in decentralized finance (DeFi).
Top Crypto Startup Drove Other Projects’ Airdrops to Its Employees
Eigen Labs circulated a list of team members’ wallet addresses to EigenLayer ecosystem projects that were preparing to issue tokens. The firm later banned the practice, citing potential conflicts of interest.
Protocol Village: Wormhole Rolls Out ‘Era3’ Roadmap, XION Plans Token
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Aug. 15-21, 2024.
The Protocol: Memecoin Trading Is Suddenly Trump.fun
Blockchain has gone even more ridiculous than usual over the past week, with headlines focused on Trump-themed memecoins and the Solana-based launchpad Pump.fun. PLUS: Ethereum developers tee up revamp of the EVM programming environment.
As Restaking Takes Shape on Solana, Ethereum’s Renzo Jumps in With ‘ezSOL’
Renzo founding contributor Lucas Kozinski (Renzo)