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Nostr and Lightning becoming a couple

Mar 06, 2023

Both Bitcoin’s Lightning Network and the new decentralized social media platform Nostr are showing nice growth figures. A new catalyst is the integration in Nostr of zaps: Lightning payments that are tied to posts on Nostr.

Lido is setting a record: 150,000 ETH staked within a single day

Mar 06, 2023

Lido is the biggest provider of liquid staking, with only a few competitors who are starting to conquer some of its market shares. Liquid staking has many advantages. One of them is being able to invest or spend Ether that is being staked. Recently, Lido set a record that is notable and also tells about the long-term sentiment of market participants.

BNB Chain launches ambitious roadmap for 2023

Mar 06, 2023

Don’t sleep on Binance Chain: it is the largest chain in terms of daily active addresses. In the final week of February, Binance unveiled their technical roadmap for 2023. Some of the areas of focus are a separate chain for data storage, increased transaction throughput and network decentralization.

Yuga Labs will mint NFT collection on Bitcoin

Mar 03, 2023

Yuga Labs, the ‘Disney’ of the NFT space, will launch an NFT collection on Bitcoin. The exact mint date is not yet known. The launch will be a fresh injection in the Ordinal NFT hype, that had died down a bit the past two weeks.

Crypto developers slowly emigrating from the US

Mar 03, 2023

On Twitter, you can often hear American crypto companies complaining that the lack of clear regulation is driving businesses offshore. The reasoning is that the financial watchdog the SEC is filing lawsuits left and right, creating uncertainty and discouraging innovation. Now, numbers confirm that there is indeed an exodus ongoing from the US to other countries, albeit a slow exodus.

Smart accounts: Ethereum deployed account abstraction

Mar 02, 2023

Ethereum underwent a lot of changes when switching to proof of stake and the roadmap to finalize Ethereum 2.0 is still long. Other improvements that are in the making haven’t caught much attention because the Merge and its aftermath stole the whole show. Yesterday, a groundbreaking improvement was announced that is believed to have the potential to drive user adoption of Ethereum by improving its overall usability.

Solana needs to improve – Yakovenko reveals new strategy

Mar 01, 2023

Solana had another outage last weekend and it took over 20 hours until transactions were transmitted again. This has been one of many incidents the high-speed blockchain suffered from in the past 12 months. Another outage just happened in January but was less severe than the last crash of the network. The worst part is that the cause of the last incident is yet unknown and developers are working tirelessly to resolve the issue.

Ethereum: Shanghai successfully tested - Price for gETH is skyrocketing

Feb 28, 2023

The Shanghai upgrade is the next important step for Ethereum and its economy. But before the upgrade can be implemented a lot of thorough testing needs to be done. Some of the tests were held successfully and most spectators anticipate that Shanghai can be rolled out once all other tests are finished. Interestingly enough, a situation has developed on Goerli, the last testnet that Shanghai needs to be tested with.

Solana (SOL) blockchain went down again: What happened this time?

Feb 27, 2023

Solana had a difficult time after the downfall of FTX. The blockchain project was closely affiliated with SBF who was a major backer of Solana’s ecosystem. Crucial infrastructure like Serum (SRM) was depending on him. With Solana’s DeFi sector slowly recovering from that blow many community members were enthusiastic at the beginning of 2023. The price action was also more favorable but recently Solana experienced yet another setback.

Linux Foundation Europe starts Open Wallet Foundation

Feb 24, 2023

This week is exciting when it comes down to announcing new foundations and looking at their plans. First Bosch and Fetch.ai pledge $100 million to explore industrial applications of Web3 and AI. Yesterday, the Linux Foundation Europe announced to start of a new foundation for solely one purpose: Wallets.

Coinbase to launch their chain Base on top of Ethereum

Feb 24, 2023

Crypto exchange Coinbase has built its own Layer 2 on Ethereum: Base. The test net went live on Thursday and the actual chain will go live in a few months. Coinbase has worked side by side with developers from Optimism, using the so-called OP Stack, an open-source developer toolkit.

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