The Protocol

jwp-player-placeholder

The Significance of User-Owned AI and NEAR Protocol's Emphasis on Practical Applications

NEAR’s co-founder Illia Polosukhin shares the need to shift from corporate-owned AI to models that benefit individuals and communities.


Up Next
Sui as a Global Coordination Layer for Intelligent Assets
Sui as a Global Coordination Layer for Intelligent Assets

The Major Narrative in the Blockchain Space | Interoperability
The Major Narrative in the Blockchain Space | Interoperability

High Stakes | Intense Competition Among Layer Two Solutions
High Stakes | Intense Competition Among Layer Two Solutions

Runes | A Degenerate Casino on the Bitcoin Blockchain Creative
Runes |  A Degenerate Casino on the Bitcoin Blockchain Creative

Rootstock: Bringing the Ethereum Virtual Machine to Bitcoin
Rootstock: Bringing the Ethereum Virtual Machine to Bitcoin

Polygon | Building a Unified Environment for Value and Liquidity
Polygon | Building a Unified Environment for Value and Liquidity

Eigenlayer's Blueprint for a Decentralized Trust Network
Eigenlayer's Blueprint for a Decentralized Trust Network

Solana: Its Meme Coin Craze, Growth and Vision With CEO Anatoly Yakovenko
Solana: Its Meme Coin Craze, Growth and Vision With CEO Anatoly Yakovenko

About
Join us on a journey through the labyrinthine layers of blockchain innovation, as tech-savvy developers sculpt the future of finance and the decentralized web. Led by CoinDesk's adept journalists, we dissect the freshest news and project revelations, demystifying the mechanics and significance of it all for those hungry to grasp the inner workings of this dynamic and rapidly evolving industry.

Hosts
Margaux Nijkerk
Margaux is a DeFi reporter at CoinDesk, focusing on the rapidly evolving decentralized finance landscape with a particular emphasis on the Ethereum a...
Host Image
Sam Kessler
Sam is CoinDesk's deputy managing editor for tech and protocols. His reporting is focused on decentralized technology, infrastructure and governance....
Host Image
Bradley Keoun
Bradley Keoun is CoinDesk's managing editor of tech & protocols, where he oversees a team of reporters covering blockchain technology, and previously...
Host Image

The Protocol articles


The Protocol: Stripe’s Tempo Testnet Goes Live

Also: ZKSync Lite to Sunset, Blockstream App Update, Axelar’s AgentFlux

Contactless payment via a mobile phone (Jonas Lupe/Unsplash)

The Protocol: Ethereum Preps For Upcoming Fusaka Upgrade

Also: Anthropic On DeFi AI Agents, ETH Devs Push ZK Protocol, and Bitnomial

The forthcoming Ethereum upgrade, Fusaka, is partly named after Osaka, a city in Japan (Wikipedia)

The Protocol: Monad Airdrop + Blockchain Go Live

Also: Celestia’s Matcha Upgrade, Fidelity on Fusaka and World’s New Payroll Pilot.

Hot-air balloons in the sky. (Ian Dooley/Unsplash)

The Protocol: Hyperliquid Introduces Proposal to Cut Fees

Also: Aerodrome Overhaul, Cloudflare Outage and dYdX Buyback Increase Approved.

Waves at night (Shutterstock modified by CoinDesk)

The Protocol: Sweeping Uniswap Proposal ‘UNIfication’

Also: Monad Tokenomics Unveiled, Anchorage Dabbles in BTC DeFi and Injective’s Native EVM.

Uniswap logo on phone (appshunter.io/Unsplash)

The Protocol: ZKSync Aims to Revamp Its Tokenomics Model

Also: The First AI Agent App Store, ETH Devs Lock In Fusaka Mainnet Date and Edge & Node’s Ampersand.

Franklin Templeton expands tokenization frontier. (Michał Parzuchowski/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

The Protocol: ETH’s Fusaka Upgrade Goes Live on Hoodi, Mainnet Next

Also: BOB Unveils BTC Vault Liquidation Engine, Ledger’s Major Overhaul and Google Weighs In on Quantum Computing.

fork, knife

The Protocol: AWS Outage Halts Some Crypto Apps

Also: Monad’s Tech, Quantum Computing and Bitcoin and Securitize’s MCP Server.

(Nadine Shaabana/Unsplash)

The Protocol: Monad Airdrop Portal Opens as Token Launch Nears

Also: ETH’s Sepolia Gets Fusaka Upgrade, Monero Releases Privacy Boost For Nodes and EF Expands Its Push Into Privacy.

Credit: Shutterstock

The Protocol: 77% of Bitcoin Holders Have Never Used BTCFi, Survey Reveals

Also: Ethereum Fusaka Upgrade on Holesky, DoubleZero Goes Live and Bee Maps Raises $42M.

Survey