The Protocol

The Protocol: Bitcoin Mining Faces New Challenges as Power Costs Eat Profit
Also: Bitcoin Liquid Staking News, Optimism and Flashbots Team Up, Hemi Labs Raises $15M.

Nasdaq-Listed SoFi Taps Bitcoin Lightning for Remittances
Plus: Bitlayer Enters Solana with YBTC, Valantis Acquires stHYPE, and Hyperbeat Secures $5.2M In Seed Round

The Protocol: OKX Slashes Native Token Supply in Half
Also: ETH Transaction Volume Climbs, Trading Bots Steal $1M From Users, and Babylon Trustless Bitcoin Vaults.

The Protocol: Ethereum Validator Exit Queue Backs Up
Also: Jito Debuts BAM, Ethereum Validators Raise the Gas Limit and Dogecoin Could Get ZK Proofs.

The Protocol: Vitalik Buterin's Latest Proposal – Transaction Gas Cap
Also: Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat, Volkswagen and Hivemapper Team Up, and EigenLabs Layoffs.

The Protocol: Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin Says the Ecosystem Is At Risk If Decentralization Is Just a Catchphrase
Also: Bitcoin Botanix Layer-2 Goes Live, XRPL EVM-Sidechain Launches, and Securitize & RedStone Release New Whitepaper |

The Protocol: Ethereum Proposal That Could Make the Network Faster
Also: ZKSync’s Airbender, Norway Plans To Ban Crypto Mining Centers, and XRP Ledger’s New Upgrade.

The Protocol: Polyhedra Promises Buyback Plan After Liquidity Attack
Also: Optalysys: New Server for Blockchains, and Ink Foundation Plans Token Airdrop.

The Protocol: Polygon, Once a Scaling Leader, Eyes a Revamp
Also: EF Treasury Policy, Increase of OP_CAT Data Limit, and Plume Genesis Goes Live.

The Protocol: Berachain Follows Ethereum’s Pectra Upgrade With ‘Bectra’
Also: EF Lays Off Staff + Restructures, Tech Experts Unimpressed at Elon Musk’s BTC X-feature, and ZachXBT: BitoPro Likely Hacked.

