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Protocol Village: Clearpool, DeFi Credit Market, Expands to Optimism's OP Mainnet

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Oct. 16-25, with live updates throughout.

Scene from Protocol Village at Consensus 2023 in Austin, Texas.

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Protocol Village: Binance Invests in Modular Rollup Network Initia

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the week of Oct. 9-16, with live updates throughout.

Scene from Protocol Village at Consensus 2023 in Austin, Texas.

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Protocol Village: Crypto VC Funding in 3Q Down Nearly 75% From Year Earlier: FundStrat

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the week of Oct. 2-8, with live updates throughout.

Scene from Protocol Village at Consensus 2023 in Austin, Texas.

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Protocol Village: Google Cloud to Serve as Validator for Polygon PoS Network

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals for the period of Aug. 22 - Sept. 29.

Scene from Protocol Village at Consensus 2023 in Austin, Texas.

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Arbitrum Developer Courts Coders Who Already Know WebAssembly-Compatible Languages

The new feature "Arbitrum Stylus" will make it easy to write smart contracts using computer languages compatible with the WebAssembly or WASM standard – seen as far more common than the Ethereum Virtual Machine or EVM standard that many blockchain developers currently use.

Steven Goldfeder, CEO and co-founder, Offchain Labs and Margaux Nijkerk, CoinDesk reporter (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

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Ethereum’s Layer 2 Teams Want You to Clone Their Code

By making their code open source and easy to replicate, projects including Arbitrum, Optimism and zkSync are making it easier for copycat blockchains to steal away their users – in pursuit of broader ecosystems of related networks.

Projects competing to become the dominant "layer 2" network atop Ethereum are now competing to become networks of networks. (Unsplash)

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Syscoin Developer Launches Ethereum-Compatible Layer 2 Network Secured by Bitcoin Miners

Sys Labs, the company behind the project, claims the new network "Rollux" will provide for speedy and affordable transactions while relying on the Syscoin blockchain's "merged mining" security method.

Decentralized network. (Shubham Dhage/Unsplash)

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Cardano Users Can Soon Access Ethereum Dapps Directly From ADA Wallets

The move will be enabled after a new feature on Milkomeda, an Ethereum Virtual Machine network, goes live.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

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ConsenSys, Developer of Ethereum Software, Says zkEVM Public Testnet to Go Live March 28

Zero-knowledge, or ZK, a type of cryptography, is seen as one of the year's hottest blockchain technologies. ConsenSys launched a private zkEVM testnet in December but is now opening it up for anyone to join.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

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Axelar Introduces Virtual Machine for Developers Building Cross-Chain Crypto Apps

Axelar describes its new VM as Kubernetes for Web3.

Puente. (Aleksandr Barsukov/Unsplash)