Ethereum Foundation’s Main Wallet Down to About $650M, Top Official Says
Screenshot from Justin Drake appearance at the Ethereum conference Devcoin in 2022. (Devcon/YouTube)
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Protocol Village: Livepeer Powered Burning Man Webcast, Euler Returns After $200M+ Exploit
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The Protocol: The Secret Code Behind Trump Family Crypto Project
In this week’s issue of CoinDesk’s weekly newsletter on blockchain tech, we’ve got the secret details underpinning the former president’s plan for World Liberty Financial, as well as the rankings of which tokens performed the least-poorly in ugly August crypto markets.
Polygon to Start Much-Awaited Swap of POL Token for Longstanding MATIC
The migration from POL to MATIC will also bring in some tokenomics changes with a new emission rate of 2%.
DeFi Protocol Penpie Exploited for $27M of Crypto Assets; PNP Token Craters 40%
Crypto users lost some $2 billion due to hacks, scams and exploits throughout 2023, one report said.
Ripple Will Soon Add Ethereum Compatible Smart Contracts to XRP Ledger
The contracts will exist on a sidechain built on XRPL, developers said in a Tuesday post.
Cardano’s Chang Hard Fork Goes Live, Introducing On-Chain Governance
The highly anticipated upgrade markes the ecosystem’s long-planned shift towards decentralized governance.
Blockchain Developer Alchemy Buys BWare, Pushing Into Europe, Adding About 25% to Staff
Company officials told CoinDesk this was its biggest acquisition to date, bringing on 42 developers and engineers from the Bware team and increasing Alchemy’s headcount to 210.
Bitcoin Layer-2 Network Stacks Begins Nakamoto Upgrade
Stacks co-founder Muneeb Ali (CoinDesk TV)
Telegram-Linked TON Blockchain Suffers Second Outage
Once again, the DOGS token is gumming up the works.