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BTCFi’s Big Problem: 77% of Bitcoin Holders Haven’t Even Tried It, Says Survey
Bitcoin decentralized finance (DeFi), also known as BTCFi, has been touted as the next wave of innovation for the world’s largest cryptocurrency. ...How Ethereum’s Fusaka Upgrade Could Be a Game-Changer, Asset Manager VanEck Explains
Ethereum’s next major network upgrade, Fusaka, could reshape how users experience the blockchain by lowering costs and boosting efficiency, according to asset ...Ripple Engineer Says XRP Ledger Aims to Be Institutions’ First Choice for Innovation and Trust
Ripple cryptographer J. Ayo Akinyele says he’s pushing to make the XRP Ledger (XRPL) the “first choice for institutions seeking innovation and ...DoubleZero Mainnet Goes Live With 22% of Staked SOL on Board
A new project wants to give blockchains their own “fast lane” on the internet. The DoubleZero Foundation announced Thursday that its highly ...Ethereum’s Fusaka Upgrade Passes Holesky Test, Moves Closer To Mainnet
Ethereum’s next upgrade, Fusaka, just moved closer to going live on the main blockchain after a successful test run on the Holesky ...The Protocol: Solana’s Firedancer Proposes Uncapping Block Compute-Unit Limit
Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk's weekly wrap of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, a reporter at ...Firedancer Devs From Jump Crypto Push Solana Toward Bigger Blocks
In a bold shift for Solana’s (SOL) scaling roadmap, Jump Crypto’s Firedancer development team has submitted a proposal, known as SIMD-0370, that ...Luke Dashjr Denies Hard Fork Claims as Bitcoin Governance Debate Heats Up
Debates over Bitcoin’s future are nothing new, but this week the discussion took on a sharper edge. One of Bitcoin’s long-serving developers ...UN: Experiment With Pension Funds Proves Blockchain as ‘Ultimate’ Identity Tech
The United Nations leaned into blockchain technology to overhaul its own pension system, and a study of that process concluded the innovation ...The Protocol: Ethereum Developers Target December for Fusaka Hard Fork
Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk's weekly wrap of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, a reporter at ...