Blockchain Builder StarkWare Restores Crypto for Delinquent Updaters of Argent Wallet, Braavos Wallet

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Shiba Inu’s (SHIB) Bridge Comes Fully Online Week After Mangled Shibarium Launch

As such, chief developer Shytoshi Kusama previously stated the team had put steps in place to prevent an outage from repeating. They added the team worked with Polygon blockchain developers to rectify any potential issues. Shibarium is a fork of Polygon, meaning it uses modified code that runs the latter.

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Coinbase Launches Own Blockchain as Sleuths Scour PayPal’s Stablecoin Software

Decentralized finance or DeFi ecosystems are still suffering through crypto winter, according to the analysis firm Messari. As a whole, the industry’s total value locked, or TVL – a key metric that represents collateral and deposits put into blockchain protocols – has been declining. On Ethereum, by far the biggest DeFi ecosystem, TVL dropped by […]

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Coinbase Sets Public Launch of ‘Base’ Layer 2 Blockchain for Next Week

“Since we announced Base, our mission has been clear and consistent: bring the next billion users and next million builders on chain,” Jesse Pollak, the creator of Base and head of protocols at Coinbase, said in a press release sent to CoinDesk. “Today, we’re thrilled to announce our next step in that journey.”

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Ethereum’s Buterin Expresses Concerns Over Sam Altman’s Worldcoin

Buterin argues first that scanning one’s iris could potentially release more information than intended. For instance, if someone else scans a World ID holder’s iris, they can run it against the Worldcoin database to determine – at the very least – whether that person is in the system. In addition, Buterin says World IDs won’t […]

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Solana DeFi Lender MarginFi Attracts Record Growth, Airdrop Farmers

One token that keeps hitting the max is bSOL, the LST issued by Solana validator service SolBlaze. The 5,000 bSOL tokens currently deposited on MarginFi represent nearly 7% of all bSOL tokens in existence; even more are waiting on the sidelines, said the pseudonymous founder of SolBlaze (who goes by SolBlaze). The founder is cutting […]

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BlackRock Bitcoin $BTC ETF Application Refiled, Naming Coinbase $COIN as ‘Surveillance-Sharing’ Partner

Several other pending applications, including one on behalf of BlackRock’s money-management rival, Fidelity, have since been updated to name Coinbase as the partner for the surveillance-sharing agreements. The sponsor of a bitcoin trust must enter a surveillance-sharing agreement with a regulated market of significant size to secure a go-ahead from regulators, based on a reading […]

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