Pendle launches sPENDLE, replacing vePENDLE’s multi-year lockups with liquid staking, protocol buybacks, and a 14-day withdrawal period.
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He called for a new wave of DAOs that focus on critical functions, like data maintenance and dispute resolution, with more sophisticated governance.
Buterin said new DAO models should address issues of privacy and decision fatigue, for which he suggested the use of ZK and AI technology.
Ethereum blockspace protocol ETHGas has launched its governance token GWEI, pitching it as the engine behind “Realtime Ethereum."
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Zcash (ZEC) suffered the steepest decline among top-tier digital assets on Jan. 8, plunging approximately 20% amid a collision of governance turmoil and a leverage-driven market flush. According to CryptoSlate data, Zcash fell to a month-low of $382, making it the day’s biggest loser on the Top 100 leaderboard. This price performance decoupled violently from […]
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While Electric Coin Company’s development team departed to form a new company, it will still be working on Zcash.
The Optimism Foundation is looking to redirect 50% of the revenue earned by Superchain for monthly over-the-counter token buybacks.
Recent governance turmoil at Zcash has resurfaced questions about development continuity, tempering confidence after the token’s strong Q4.
Aave founder Stani Kulechov says Aave Labs may share non-protocol revenue with AAVE token holders amid governance debate.
A hacker appears to have gained unauthorized control over Unleash Protocol's multisig, enabling them to drain nearly $4 million in assets.
Hyperliquid Labs is set to receive its first major allocation of HYPE tokens, worth about $31.2 million, on Jan. 6.
The proposal, which transforms UNI into a value-accruing asset, received more than 125 million votes in support with just 742 dissenting.
The proposal shifts a portion of trading fees from liquidity providers to the protocol, which will be used to burn native token UNI.
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.
A dispute over who controls Aave’s brand and online assets has moved to a vote, sending the token sharply lower.
Aave DAO unrest has intensified after Aave Labs unilaterally escalated a high-stake proposal on brand-asset ownership to a Snapshot vote.
An Incentives Committee would direct programmatic token emissions, focusing allocations on participants that secure AVSs and contribute to the EigenCloud ecosystem.
The team argues that targeted incentives are needed to sustain that momentum in what it described as an increasingly crowded stablecoin landscape.
The proposal would activate protocol fee switches, burn 100 million UNI, and formally align Uniswap Labs with governance.
In practice, the fund functions like a continuous buyback-and-burn system by converting trading fees into inaccessible HYPE tokens.
The plan arrives as the Aave DAO confronts rising governance tensions over fees, alignment, and protocol stewardship.
An AAVE token holder proposed that Aave DAO commandeer Aave Labs' IP and equity, essentially turning it into a DAO subsidiary.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Coinbase , Stripe-owned Bridge and Crypto.com have also applied to become federally chartered banks in the U.S.
An Aave governance dispute has erupted after a delegate claimed that swap fees from Aave Labs’ new CoWSwap integration no longer reach the DAO treasury.
Polymarket just resolved “YES” on a $16 million market asking whether the Trump administration would declassify UFO files in 2025… even though no documents have been released. The outcome arrived after late-session buying near 99 to 99.9 cents, and a resolution through UMA’s Optimistic Oracle, which recorded multiple disputes before finalization. The oracle pipeline relies […]
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Ethereum completed its Fusaka upgrade on Dec. 3, marking one of the network’s most essential steps toward long-term scalability. The upgrade builds on a series of changes since the 2022 Merge and follows the earlier Dencun and Pectra releases, which lowered Layer 2 fees and increased blob capacity. Fusaka goes further by restructuring how Ethereum […]
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Consensys said Ethereum researchers are now looking to “roll out hard forks on an accelerated twice-a-year cadence."