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The EIP-8363 Debate: ETH Researchers Want to Kill Staking Rewards After 50% of ETH is Staked Good or bad for Ethereum? We dive into one of the hottest debates in the Ethereum community...
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"We shouldn't mess with it": Silagadze vs. de Tychey on Ethereum's issuance curve
"My position is, frankly, that we shouldn't f--- with it. This is not anywhere close to one of the top ten problems of Ethereum." @MikeSilagadze on EIP-8363. @jdetychey's answer: "There...
Mike Silagadze on why EIP-8363 would centralize Ethereum — and the $1M bet he'll take on it
There's Now a $1M Bet on EIP-8363: @ether_fi CEO @MikeSilagadze offers a $1M public bet on EIP-8363: "If this goes through, the network will be dramatically more concentrated as a...
Cosmos SDK v0.54.4
This release contains important security fixes. We recommend all chains upgrade to this patch release as soon as possible using a coordinated upgrade. This release is state...
Connecting Banks to Blockchains | Swift at Point Zero Forum
Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The Chainlink stack provides the...
Cosmos SDK v0.53.8
This release contains important security fixes. We recommend all chains upgrade to this patch release as soon as possible using a coordinated upgrade This release is state...
A Standard That Leads the Way
Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The Chainlink stack provides the...
TradFi doesn’t want DeFi. It wants blockchains.
How institutions are rebuilding finance from DeFi’s primitives. And why open networks still matter.
Drift to issue ‘recovery tokens’ in wake of $295m hack
Developers behind Solana-based derivatives exchange Drift proposed on Tuesday a recovery plan that would funnel protocol revenue to users who lost money in a devastating April hack. The...
DeFi rides Pokémon trading card boom as onchain marketplaces bring in $11m
A version of this story appeared in The Decentralised newsletter on May 5. Sign up here. GM, Tim here. Decentralised finance is notorious for being home to some pretty wacky ideas with...
Uniswap DAO votes to take back $42m of governance tokens loaned to delegates
The digital cooperative governing Uniswap, the biggest decentralised exchange, is voting on a proposal to take back some $42 million worth of governance tokens from delegates. Between...
Hyperliquid takes aim at Kalshi, Polymarket targeting $24bn prediction markets
Hyperliquid is nibbling away at Kalshi and Polymarket. The decentralised finance exchange processing $6 billion in daily derivatives volume launched its first outcome contracts over the...
Aave secures emergency hearing to void ‘catastrophic’ restraining order
An emergency hearing on Wednesday could determine whether the relatives of a slain minister are entitled to $71 million in crypto that was nearly stolen by North Korean hackers last...
Crypto industry reels as April sees highest number of hacks ever
April was a bad time for the crypto industry. Over the past month, 29 crypto projects have suffered hacks or exploits, the highest monthly tally in the industry’s history, per DefiLlama...
Tokenisation will balloon to $2tn despite DeFi turbulence, Standard Chartered says
Tokenisation will balloon some 5,600% to be a $2 trillion market by 2028, according to Standard Chartered. At the heart of the forecast is continued expansion in decentralised finance...
DeFi lender Sky hits $124m revenue record. Yet token holders aren’t impressed
Sky is the most profitable it has ever been — and it might have institutions to thank for that. On Wednesday, the Sky Frontier Foundation released the Q1 2026 financial results for the...
Aave-led 'DeFi United' campaign raises $300m to address Kelp DAO breach
A version of this story appeared in The Decentralised newsletter on April 28. Sign up here. There’s been a silver lining to this month’s devastating Kelp DAO/LayerZero hack: DeFi...
Aave publishes plan to plug $246m hole left by Kelp DAO attackers
Aave and Compound are moving closer to plugging the $246 million hole left by the Kelp DAO hack. On Tuesday, DeFi United, a coalition of several protocols that includes the top...
Justin Sun announces $20m boost for Aave as he calls on lender to expand to his blockchain
Crypto mogul Justin Sun has announced a $20 million liquidity injection for Aave, and called on the top DeFi lender to expand to Tron, the blockchain he founded in 2017. Sporting some...
Banks are fighting a ‘sideshow’ as Clarity Act stalls. Will it matter?
The Clarity Act is stalling in Washington — but industry insiders say the outcome has already been decided. Zachary Townsend, CEO of crypto insurance company Meanwhile, says that...