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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.

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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

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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.

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The Protocol: Ethereum Validator Exit Queue Backs Up

Also: Jito Debuts BAM, Ethereum Validators Raise the Gas Limit and Dogecoin Could Get ZK Proofs.

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The Protocol: Vitalik Buterin's Latest Proposal – Transaction Gas Cap

Also: Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat, Volkswagen and Hivemapper Team Up, and EigenLabs Layoffs.

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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 |

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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.

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The Protocol: Polyhedra Promises Buyback Plan After Liquidity Attack

Also: Optalysys: New Server for Blockchains, and Ink Foundation Plans Token Airdrop.

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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.

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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.

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