blockchain

As the network gets more efficient, cheaper blockspace keeps revenue down

The layer-2’s biggest release yet brings benefits — but a post-upgrade outage caused a chain reorg

Following a roundtable, the startup emerges as frontrunner, despite entries from Paxos, Ethena, and others

B3’s XRPL Gamechain reminds me why I have gaming chain fatigue

Governance vote clears SIMD-0326, shifting Solana to a new consensus model

Why the world celebrates labor movements on two different days

12% of validators have voted in favor so far

Faster markets and bigger bets are reshaping how capital and predictions flow onchain

Some client teams want at least an extra 4 weeks on the rollout timeline

A 29-minute halt in block production briefly froze Base, but DeFi dodged the bullet

New “Lean Ethereum” vision transforms a network-layer refactor into a long-term roadmap for post-quantum security

BAM, DoubleZero and Alpenglow will drive the new upgrades

Blockchains, when done right, are built to last forever

Poseidon turns to the last great frontier in AI: IP-cleared, real-world data, coordinated, licensed and monetized onchain

History shows Bitcoin consensus can be messy

The new system is “basically decentralizing ourselves,” Jito Labs CEO Lucas Bruder said

Shuffle, Stake and Rollbit are some companies betting on blockchains

The network got slower in June — and it wasn’t for tech-related reasons

EigenLayer, Lido and Taiko are buying verifiable compute

Firedancer has yet to go fully live, but its progress has been “pretty impressive,” a dev said

Data shows frontrunning has declined on the network compared to last year

BitVM3’s “garbled circuit” approach faces critical security and scaling research before it will be practical

Buzzwords include: succinct universal proofs, zkVM, incrementally verifiable computation, distributed supercomputer and agentic AI

Mainnet goes live with a 16-node federation, promising five-second block times, low fees and Bitcoin-native DeFi