Pudgy Penguins to Launch Webkinz-like Virtual World in 2024
Pudgy World, an interactive digital world available to Pudgy Penguin NFT holders, will become available in alpha mode sometime next year, according to the company’s CEO.
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Chainlink Staking Program Quickly Pulls in $600M, Hitting Limit; LINK Jumps 12%
The blockchain-oracle project’s “v0.2” staking program expanded the capacity to 45M LINK tokens from 25M, and the portion reserved for the community quickly filled up. The LINK token surged in price.
This $28K Pixelated Avocado Could Add to Bitcoin’s Raging Censorship Debate
The NFT-like Ordinals inscriptions are anathema to some Bitcoin purists who want to preserve the blockchain for financial applications. But a few of the images are fetching eye-popping sums in the in-real-life art world.
Blocknative Releases New Ethereum Mempool Explorer, to Help With MEV Protection
The tool, which was released just a few weeks after Blocknative had to cut back on its MEV-Boost relay services, could ultimately help reduce instances of block-level manipulation and protect users from front-running bots.
Jack Dorsey’s Block Bitkey Bitcoin Wallet Comes to Market in More Than 95 Countries
Jack Dorsey’s company’s new self-custody wallet consists of an app, hardware device and recovery tools.
Future of Solana’s Hyped Saga Phone Is ‘Under Internal Discussion’ as Sales Figures Fail to Wow
Yakovenko emphasizes the importance of reaching a user base of 25-50K to sustain the Solana phone’s development in an interview with Laura Shin.
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.
Bitcoin Core’s ‘v26.0’ Upgrade Aims to Impede Eavesdropping, Tampering
The v26.0 upgrade contains experimental support for the v2 transport protocol as defined by Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 324 (BIP324).
Elon Musk-Backed X.AI Files With SEC to Raise Up to $1B in Equity Offering
The filing lists the Tesla-billionaire-turned-social-media tycoon as a key backer.