JupUSD is an Ethena whitelabel stablecoin backed primarily by BlackRock's tokenized USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund.
The project previously raised an unannounced pre-seed round of about $5 million in mid-2024, founder Kevin Lepsoe told The Block.
Firedancer could boost client diversity on Solana, which historically has been dominated by forks of Solana Labs' original codebase.
Solmate previously announced plans for an aggressive M&A strategy to bolster its treasury and staking operations.
Consensys said Ethereum researchers are now looking to “roll out hard forks on an accelerated twice-a-year cadence."
Aztec says Ignition Chain, which enables programmable privacy, is the first fully decentralized Layer 2 network on Ethereum.
As institutional comfort with Ethereum grows, more participants appear willing to commit capital for extended periods to earn yield.
The tie-up will bring data for major global indices like the Russell 1000, Russell 2000, Russell 3000, and other FTSE products onchain.
The backwards-compatible Fusaka hard fork will implement about a dozen Ethereum Improvement Proposals.
The move kicks off the countdown to Ethereum’s second hard fork of 2025.
Hoodi represents the third and final testnet deployment, following successive activations on Holesky and Sepolia earlier this month.
In a conversation with CoinDesk, Marinade Labs' Michael Repetny gives an overview of the Solana staking ecosystem and the upcoming Alpenglow upgrade.
The institutional blockchain has reached more than 500K daily transactions, with major banks and U.S. crypto exchanges fueling unprecedented growth.
Blockchain Builders Fund, GSR, Kindred Ventures, Rocket Pool, and the Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, are among the other notable backers.
The backlog pushed exit wait times to more than 46 days on Monday, the longest in Ethereum’s short staking history, dashboards show. The last peak, in August, put the exit queue at 18 days.
On Wednesday, Polygon PoS experienced 10–15 minute delays in recording block "milestones" after a bug was detected.
The validators were tied to the SSV Network, a distributed validator technology protocol that decentralizes staking infrastructure.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Kiln described the ETH validator exits as a precautionary step to safeguard client assets in the wake of the SwissBorg event.
The relaunch is expected to happen in the first half of 2026 and feature a new tokenomics model designed to reward developers.
DoubleZero’s new 3 million SOL stake pool, DZSOL, aims to decentralize Solana validator infrastructure by offering access to its high-speed fiber network.
The consensus bug comes just weeks after Heimdall was upgraded in Polygon's "most technically complex" hard fork since 2020.
On the community’s official Discord, a representative stated the service is functioning again and that the issue is under investigation.
Over a week ago, roughly 167,000 ETH worth over $630 million was withdrawn from the Aave lending pool flipping a popular staking strategy negative.
Solana developers proposed SIMD‑0286 to raise block capacity to 100 million compute units, a 66% hike that targets more throughput for dapps and users.
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The exodus stretched the waiting line to over 9 days, but strong staking demand from ETH treasury firms and SEC clarity may keep sell pressure in check.
Ethereum validators are experiencing the longest wait times in over a year to withdraw their staked ETH, as growing demand for staking collides with the network’s built-in exit limitations. According to data from ValidatorQueue.com, validators seeking to exit the Ethereum network must now wait approximately 8 days and 6 hours to complete the process, marking […]
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DeFi Dev Corp and the Dogwifhat community will split staking income and other validator rewards after deducting operational expenses.
MEV-related spam continues to consume a large share of block space and a new system is required to unlock true onchain scalability, Flashbots says.