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Zuzalu to Close After 2 Months in Montenegro With Crypto Elites

Zuzalu, an invite-only gathering of about 200 people in Lustica Bay, Montenegro, is coming to an end after two months. "The Hash" panel shares their reaction to the event and the sighting of prominent participants like Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.

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Zuzalu Is 2 Months in Montenegro With Crypto Elites, Cold Plunges, Vitalik Selfies

This invite-only gathering of 200 people in the Mediterranean marina town of Lustica Bay has been taking place since late March and wraps up this week, featuring official sessions on zero-knowledge cryptography, twice-a-day jumps into the Adriatic Sea and the chance to get face time with Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.

Discussion circle at Zuzalu, with Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin on the turquoise beanbag chair, listening to Asymmetry Finance's Hannah Hamilton. (Adrian Guerrera)

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Laura Shin Reflects on Crypto's Evolution in the Last Decade

As part of CoinDesk Turns 10, "The Cryptopians" author "Unchained" podcast host Laura Shin joins "First Mover" to reflect on the past, present, and future of the crypto industry. Shin discusses the lessons learned from the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX, Do Kwon's Terraform Labs, and unpacks the history of Ethereum.

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NFT Trading Volume on Track to Drop Below $1B, But Does That Metric Matter?

A new report from DappRadar suggests that while NFT trading volume is trending down, the number of traders and sales remain high, suggesting a shift in trader behavior.

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Ethereum Staking Needs Its (Honest) LIBOR

A standardized ETH staking benchmark could unleash a new generation of financial products that appeal to TradFi.

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Ethereum Briefly Stopped Finalizing Transactions. What Happened?

The loss in finality meant that blocks could have been tampered with, and while it isn’t supposed to affect end-user experiences, it did lead to some inconveniences for some applications.

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Optimism, Scaling Solution for Ethereum, Sets June Date for Biggest Ever Upgrade, ‘Bedrock’

The upgrade, a hard fork proposed earlier this year and approved by the Optimism community in April, is supposed to bring a “new level of modularity, simplicity and Ethereum equivalence.”

Layered bedrock. (NASA)

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Asymmetry, ‘ETF’ for Liquid Staking Tokens, Raises $3M Round From Ecco Capital, Ankr and Others

The crypto project’s safETH token represents a basket of liquid staking tokens from Lido, Rocketpool and Frax.

The Asymmetry safETH token represents a basket of liquid staking derivatives. (Bartolomeo Cavarozzi/Metropolitan Art Museum, modified by CoinDesk)

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Liquid Staking Leader Lido Upgrades to Second Version on Ethereum

Users can now unstake their stETH and receive ETH at a 1:1 ratio.

Lido has already withdrawn more than 278,000 ETH at press time. (John Sirlin/EyeEm/Getty Images)

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U.S. Prosecutors Drop Extortion Charges Against Early Adviser to Ethereum Network

Lawyers for Steven Nerayoff say that, on the day of his arrest, their client was put in a van by the FBI, given a list of names and told to start turning over evidence on a long list of crypto figures.

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