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Jan 30, 2025, 10:25 a.m. UTC The cost of using Avalanche, a DeFi-focused smart-contract blockchain, has slumped since the implementation of the Avalanche9000 upgrade on Dec. 16, sending the number of transactions up by more than a third. Since the upgrade,…
Jan 29, 2025, 9:59 p.m. UTC Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Ben Schiller, CoinDesk’s Opinion and Features editor. In this issue: MOVEMENT LABS ROLLS OUT DEVNET: Blockchain firm Movement…
Jan 29, 2025, 9:47 p.m. UTC Cardano, the layer-1 blockchain launched in 2017 by Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson, activated its highly anticipated “Plomin” upgrade on Wednesday, ushering in the ecosystem’s long-awaited move towards a decentralized governance system. With the Plomin upgrade…
Genre-defining launch of a play-to-earn mobile MMORPG that blends strategy, adventure, and cutting-edge technology, powered by GPS, AR, AI, and blockchain planned for this year For the past three years, the team behind Chaos on the Chains has been quietly…
Banking giant Deutsche Bank is building out a layer-2 rollup network on Ethereum with ZKsync technology developed by Matter Labs. Bloomberg reported the project Wednesday, and a representative for Matter Labs confirmed the story. The chain will be “a public…
Kraken, the seventh-largest crypto exchange, said its layer-2 rollup network, built on top of the Ethereum blockchain, has gone live. The network, called Ink, is based on the OP stack, a customizable framework that lets developers build their own rollups…
Earlier this year, some users of wrapped bitcoin wBTC were dismayed to find its issuer BitGo was sharing custody of their bitcoin (BTC) with BiT Global, a Hong Kong-based crypto custodian partly owned by TRON founder Justin Sun. The episode…
Crypto degens have a new – and, if all goes according to plan, faster, cheaper and safer – way to trade Runes, the Bitcoin ecosystem’s answer to memecoins. An automated-market maker (AMM) for the Runes protocol is being deployed on…
MEXC, a global leader in cryptocurrency trading, has officially launched 300x leverage for BTC and ETH USDT-margined Futures trading pairs. This new feature allows investors to capitalize on market opportunities quickly during a bull market, maximize capital efficiency, and unlock…