MarginFi Leader Resigns on Fiery Day for Major Solana Lender
“The main problem was our lack of organizational execution,” MarginFi’s longtime leader Edgar Pavlovsky told CoinDesk.
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The Protocol: How to Engineer Harder Money, or Just Make Your Own
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 of monetary strategies.
EigenLayer, Crypto’s Biggest Project Launch This Year, Is Still Missing Crucial Functionality
The “restaking” protocol with $15 billion in deposits won’t pay rewards to depositors and is missing its mission-critical “slashing” feature.
EigenLayer and EigenDA Launch on Ethereum Mainnet
The launch comes after $12 billion has already been deposited into the protocol.
Venture Firm A16z Releases Jolt, a ‘Zero-Knowledge Virtual Machine’
The release is the product of a16z’s first foray into deep tech research.
Ethereum Foundation Researchers’ Proposal to Slow ETH Issuance Draws Pushback
The proposal, initially introduced in February, could harden Ethereum’s native cryptocurrency, ether, as as a form of money – by reducing the inflation of new supply. But some members of the community say if it’s not broke, don’t fix it.
Ripple, Developer Behind XRP Ledger, Enters Stablecoin Fray vs. Tether, USDC
The token will be “100% backed by U.S. dollar deposits, short-term U.S. government Treasuries and other cash equivalents.” according to the company.
Protocol Village: Optimism-Based DEX Velodrome Deploys to Bitcoin L2 BOB
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of April 4-10.
The Protocol: Using the Money Printer
If you have the money printer – as is the case for many of the blockchain projects with the power to create their own digital tokens – why wouldn’t you use it? PLUS: Vitalik Buterin riffs on meme coin and Ethereum’s new “blob market.”
Meme Coins on Degen Chain Flourish as New Layer 3 Racks up Millions in Volumes
Degen Chain was released last week as a specialized network that sits atop Base, which itself is an Ethereum layer 2.