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Ethereum News

Videos

Is MakerDAO Becoming ‘a Company Run by Politics’?

“The Hash” hosts unpack the specifics and industry implications of the recent “governance drama,” division and lobbying that gripped Ethereum’s pioneering decentralized money layer, MakerDAO.

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Tech

Decentralized Mixer Tornado Cash Makes Its User Interface Open-Source

The privacy protocol is stepping up transparency by inviting more eyeballs to review code.

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Learn

From stETH to wETH to Gwei: Understanding the Different Shades of Ethereum

It's important to understand the difference between staked ether tokens and staked ether deposits and more so that you don’t make an expensive mistake.

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Finance

Aztec Launches DeFi Privacy Bridge Aztec Connect

The privacy solution, now on mainnet, allows users to interact with popular DeFi apps in a private way.

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Tech

Ethereum Scaling System Immutable X Allowing Ether-to-Dollar Withdrawals

The tool is one of the first layer 2 services to allow users to take out U.S. dollars.

The Financial Action Task Force wants to outlaw dirty money flows through crypto. (Richard Levine/Corbis/ Getty Images)

Tech

Ethereum's Sepolia Testnet Successfully Switches to Proof-of-Stake

The Sepolia proof-of-work chain merged with its proof-of-stake chain on Wednesday, taking Ethereum one step closer to its own Merge moment.

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Layer 2

Are Block Builders the Key to Solving Ethereum’s MEV Centralization Woes?

Proposer-builder separation is one way Ethereum is implementing modular decentralization.

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Finance

Ethereum DeFi Service Porter Finance Shutters Bond Platform, Citing Lack of 'Lending Demand'

The venture capital-backed firm said the lack of “institutional fixed income DeFi adoption” drove its decision.

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Tech

Bitmain to Start Selling New Ethereum Mining Rig Model Wednesday

Despite the Merge edging closer, Bitmain is releasing an Ethereum ASIC.

A Bitmain Antminer s9 board in a bitcoin mine in Norway. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Layer 2

Vitalik's Mom Offers Advice on How to Make It in Crypto

“You need to have a lot of perseverance and a lot of patience,” she said in an interview for CoinDesk's "Future of Work Week."

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