The conflict centered on a proposal to fund product development and expansion, which ACI opposed due to concerns over self-voting and lack of transparency.
At Consensus Hong Kong 2026, Leo Fan questioned Midnight’s use of Google Cloud and Azure, as Charles Hoskinson justifies hyperscaler partnerships.
The layer-1 network reversed course after ecosystem partners warned that rewriting chain history would undermine decentralization and create operational risks following a $3.9 million exploit.
The Aave community has become sharply divided over control of the protocol’s brand and related assets, intensifying an ongoing dispute over the relationship between the DAO and Aave Labs.
Some in the crypto world have called for DePIN to be more widely adopted to combat internet outage issues.
For an industry that prides itself on decentralization and constantly lauds its benefits, crypto exchanges being so reliant on vulnerable centralized cloud platforms for their own infrastructure feels like hypocrisy, argues Dr. Max Li, founder and CEO of OORT.
On Oct. 20, a hiccup in Amazon’s US-EAST-1 region set off a chain reaction across the crypto industry. Coinbase reported degraded service, Infura and Alchemy posted AWS-related incident notes, and several wallets and rollups began timing out. None of these failures came from the blockchains themselves. Consensus was fine. The problem was everything wrapped around […]
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The October AWS outage took down some of crypto’s most prominent companies and networks. Many in the community pointed out their lack of decentralization.
The funding combines equity and project financing to connect DeFi capital with real-world electricity infrastructure
Dominated by platform giants like Amazon and Google, the internet has strayed from Web3’s original vision of decentralization, but innovations like state channels now offer a path back by enabling fast, secure, peer-to-peer interactions without trusted intermediaries, says Alexis Sirkia of Yellow Network.
Much like Bitcoin eliminates reliance on centralized intermediaries in finance, Bitchat would removes central authorities from digital communication.
Speaking at EthCC in France, Ethereum’s founder said developers need to stay true to crypto’s principles amid a wave of corporate blockchain adoption.
The Cointelegraph Decentralization Guardians (CTDG) initiative is operational with validators on Solana, Chiliz, Polkadot, Coreum, Canton and Mantra.
The move means that Base will now have a security council which will help approve certain network upgrades if needed.
A balance must be struck between decentralization and security.
Decentralization is fundamental to blockchain technology, offering resilience and resistance to censorship, but is the industry focused on the right incentives to drive decentralization? By Pablo Larguía
The glasses aim to provide a faster online user experience via AI agents and extended reality features, which may usher in a “post-smartphone era.”
Strong regulation of decentralized physical infrastructure networks is needed.
Sebastian Bürgel, vice president of technology at Gnosis and founder of Hopr, argues that hyperfinancialization and profit-seeking are a threat to privacy and the crypto sector.
Community-driven cryptocurrencies and decentralized governance systems can shape the future of Web3 technology.
Decentralization must be codified into AI now to ensure a healthy trajectory for the technology.
Threat actors using artificial intelligence and scalable quantum computers will see centralized information systems as a honeypot.
Howells told Cointelegraph about his legal battle to recover a lost $773 million Bitcoin hard drive, which he plans to use to finance blockchain innovation.
AI has experienced its Cambrian explosion, while blockchain technology remains in limbo.
Bitcoin and other decentralized technologies such as DePIN will really come into their own in 2025, forecasts the COO of Unstoppable Domains.
Decentralized identity systems leverage blockchain technology to establish a secure, user-centric framework for managing identities.
Theta Labs head of strategy Wes Levitt says the decentralized cloud is more cost-effective and offers greater flexibility and reliability for AI solutions.
Censorship, propaganda, privacy, and self-harm are just some of the concerns decentralization advocates have with centralized AI models.
The VC firms sued in a California case were active in DAO management, much like general partners, said the court. They could face hefty lawsuits.
DeSci advocates say “traditional science” has fallen prey to regulatory capture and been maligned by corporate greed and now a blockchain-based update is in order.