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A New Bitcoin-Based Arcade Game Is Leaving a Mark on Gamers

A platform that went live last week looks to expand bitcoin usage by attracting players to win-to-earn games that run wholly on the Bitcoin blockchain.

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Coinbase’s New Base Blockchain Gobbled Up $68M in Ether, and It’s Not Even Officially Live Yet

Meme coin BALD’s 4,000,000% surge seemed to spark the huge inflows to the nascent crypto bridge.

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Africa-Focused DeFi Platform Mara Releases Ethereum-Compatible Testnet

Developers in Nigeria and across Africa can build and test their decentralized applications on the Optimism forked Mara Chain.

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Polygon Mulls Governance Restructure in Polygon 2.0 Roadmap

Developers have proposed an “Ecosystem Council” to push smart contract upgrades, as well as changes to how community-based funding works.

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Nil Foundation and Semiconductor Startup Partner to Collaborate on ZK Proofs Software, Hardware

The effort will accelerate the deployment of zero-knowledge proofs, one of the hottest trends in blockchain technology, they said.

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Aave DAO to Vote on Gho Stablecoin Deployment on Ethereum

Gho has been available on the Ethereum blockchain’s Goerli testnet since February, where it has functioned without encountering any major bugs.

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Shiba Inu-Based Shibarium Blockchain Expected to Go Live in August

The layer 2 network will utilize bone, treat, shib and leash tokens for applications built on the blockchain.

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Tezos Set to Become 8 Times Faster After 'Nairobi' Upgrade

‘Nairobi’ is the blockchain’s fourteenth upgrade.

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Latest Cardano Node Upgrade Goes Live on Mainnet

The upgrade 8.1.1 also contains software patches for minor issues from a previous node version.

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Ethereum Developers Propose Raising Validator Limit to 2,048 Ether From 32 Ether

Low validator limits have led to waiting times of over one month, as of Monday.

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