Decentralization


Opinion

An Urbit Airdrop Highlights Promises and Problems of Permissionless Development

The offbeat and controversial computing platform goes through growing pains as it seeks wider adoption through crypto.

Urbit Foundation's Josh Lehman gives a farewell address at Urbit's Assembly conference in Miami, FL in September 2022. (Daniel Kuhn/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Urbit Is Web3, Weird and Wonderful and I Don’t Care Who Made It

Software can have bugs, but it doesn’t have cooties.

An Urbit "galaxy" can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. (NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI)

Layer 2

Urbit Courts DAOs, Crypto Teams in Quest to Make Internet P2P Again

A wildly ambitious project to reinvent the entire internet computing stack is finally shipping usable apps after a decade-plus of laying groundwork. Can it overcome a “janky” UX?

An Urbit ID is known as a planet. (NASA/Getty Images)

Finance

Decentralized Crypto Exchange dYdX Scraps Promotion Amid 'Liveness Check' Backlash

The exchange wanted to prevent users from farming the promo across multiple accounts, but the promotion also raised questions about decentralization.

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Finance

Indian Exchange CoinDCX Launches DeFi Mobile App, Signaling Shift Towards Web3

Okto will be available in India within CoinDCX Pro and as a standalone Okto App globally.

From Left to Right: Sumit Gupta (Co-founder & CEO), Neeraj Khandelwal (Co-founder), Gaurav Arora (Sr. Vice President), Vivek Gupta (EVP Engineering). (CoinDCX)

Tech

The Graph Adds Gnosis Chain to Its Decentralized Blockchain Indexing Protocol

Gnosis Chain is the first chain after Ethereum to gain support on The Graph’s decentralized network, which will soon replace The Graph’s centralized “hosted” service.

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Opinion

In Crypto, Base Layer Security Isn’t Enough

Blockchains are only as secure as the applications they run.

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Finance

DEX Protocol Injective Raises $40M From Jump Crypto, Brevan Howard Unit

The project will use the funds to boost the utility of the INJ Token.

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