The Protocol
Cloning Tornado Cash Would Be Easy, but Risky
The sanctioned Ethereum mixer’s code is open source. Anyone can copy and run it. The hard part: winning user trust – and staying out of the U.S. government’s crosshairs.

Goerli Is Coming: Ethereum’s Last Rehearsal Before the Merge
The Prater upgrade, the first component of the upcoming Goerli testnet merge, is happening this week.

Ethereum’s Rollup Race: What is a ‘True’ zkEVM?
The ZK rollup race between Ethereum layer 2s Scroll, Polygon and Matter Labs may come down to definitions.

What’s in Your Bear Market Backpack?
From existential dread to blissful ignorance — reactions to Ethereum’s market slump vary across the board

Are Block Builders the Key to Solving Ethereum’s MEV Centralization Woes?
Proposer-builder separation is one way Ethereum is implementing modular decentralization.

A Major Crypto Exchange Abandons Ethereum: Is the World’s Computer Falling Behind?
By ditching Ethereum for Cosmos, dYdX has sparked claims that it has chosen sovereignty over security.

Ethereum's Gray Glacier (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Difficulty Bomb)
The delay of Ethereum’s Difficulty Bomb suggests the network’s Merge to proof-of-stake might be a bit further away than hoped.

Crypto Market Chaos: No, Lido Is Not ‘the Next Terra’
After over $1 billion in liquidations in just 24 hours, DeFi’s wild west period may be drawing to a close – but not everything’s a sham.

Scaling Ethereum Beyond the Merge: Danksharding
Danksharding would take a massive step toward turning Ethereum layer 2 networks into first class citizens.

Merge Ahead: Ethereum’s Dress Rehearsal (and a Hiccup)
Ethereum’s Ropsten testnet is on the brink of a pivotal transition to proof-of-stake, but an unwelcome “reorg” rained on the Merge prep parade last week.
