blockchain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
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