Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin

Tech

The Protocol: Side-Dealing Accusations Put Crypto VC Funding in Spotlight

In this week's blockchain tech newsletter, we're highlighting the firm Polychain's accusation against a former general partner over an alleged ethics breach, along with Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin's speech in Brussels and Bitcoin's Saxony problem.

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Tech

The Protocol: EIGEN Riches Tempt Ethereum Devs, Even as ETF Approval Nears

There's been tension among members of the Ethereum developer community – even though the ETH price is mooning due to growing anticipation that U.S. regulators might give the green light to spot ether ETFs.

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Tech

The Protocol: Lido Backers vs EigenLayer

In this week's issue, we've got the scoop on a new possible rival to restaking pioneer EigenLayer. PLUS Are meme coins an investable asset class? With the latest Runes data and $70M of project fundraisings.

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Finance

Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Vitalik Buterin Back $45M Investment in Polymarket

The series B funding round comes during a breakout year for the crypto-based prediction market platform, and brings its total funding well over $70 million.

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Tech

Vitalik Buterin Takes a Dig at the Metaverse, Calls It a Branding Ploy

Metaverse tokens have a $18 billion market cap, but we're not quite at Ready Player One yet.

Vitalik Buterin speaks at BUIDL Asia in Seoul on March 27, 2024 (screenshot)

Opinion

30 Reasons to Love Vitalik Buterin, on His 30th Birthday

The co-founder and spiritual leader of Ethereum has achieved more than most in his relatively short lifetime.

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Tech

The Protocol: Bitcoin NFT Debacle, Vitalik's 30th, Farcaster Frames, 'Private Mempools'

In this week's issue of The Protocol newsletter, our Sam Kessler writes about the "private mempools" that Ethereum users are increasingly relying on to avoid front-running MEV bots. PLUS: Margaux Nijkerk explores the growing use of "councils" to oversee adolescent networks.

Founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin during TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 (John Phillips/Creative Commons/CC2.0, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Vitalik Buterin Says Developers Should 'Tread Carefully' Mixing Crypto and AI

The Ethereum co-founder has warmed up on the potential intersection between AI and crypto, though he warns developers to be careful.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin (Bradley Keoun/modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

The Protocol: MetaMask's Secret Weapon and Ethereum's Dencun Debacle

In this issue of CoinDesk's weekly newsletter on blockchain technology, we bring you Sam Kessler's scoop on MetaMask's in-development "intents" feature that could revolutionize how users interact with blockchains. Also: a post-mortem on Ethereum's unexpectedly ugly Dencun testnet upgrade – and a glimpse of one of the new data blobs.

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Tech

Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin Proposes Gas Limit Increase

Ethereum's gas limit refers to the maximum amount of gas that can be expended in an individual block. A limit increase could improve network capacity and potentially reduce costs for users.

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