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How the Hunt for Yet-to-Exist Tokens Is Shaping Ethereum’s Layer 2 Landscape
Token airdrops – and the prospect of them – have become the default customer acquisition strategy for Ethereum's layer 2 scaling projects. But is this strategy sustainable?
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Apr 26, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. UTC
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CoinDesk Winds Down Ethereum Validator ‘Zelda,’ and We Now Wait to Get Money Back
Following last week's milestone Shanghai upgrade, we moved to wind down CoinDesk's Ethereum validator project, but it could be a week before the 32 ETH we staked (about $67,00...
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Apr 19, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. UTC
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Ethereum's Shanghai Upgrade on Deck; Developers, Traders Aflutter With Anticipation
Developers and crypto market analysts are getting in their final words before staked ETH withdrawals are activated.
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Apr 12, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. UTC
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CoinDesk’s Ethereum Validator Enters Final Weeks, Sitting on More Than $30K of Gains
To better chronicle the Ethereum blockchain's transition to a proof-of-stake network, CoinDesk started its own validator. We plunked down the 32 ETH (roughly $15K at the time)...
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Apr 5, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. UTC
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Arbitrum Shows Just How Messy (and Tricky) Crypto Airdrops Can Be
Bugs, server crashes and scammers continue to plague crypto airdrops. Will regulatory pressures be next?
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Mar 29, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. UTC
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Latest Ethereum Blocks Suggest Validators Are Reversing Censorship
Noncensoring relays such as Agnostic and ultra sound are delivering more data blocks on Ethereum than Flashbots, the one-time king of MEV-delivering relays.
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Mar 22, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. UTC
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MEV Rewards on Ethereum Reach All-Time High During SVB Bank Run and USDC Depeg
Profits made from MEV were more than twice as high as the last peak during the FTX implosion.
MEV profits soared during this latest crypto crisis. (Midjourney/CoinDesk)
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Mar 15, 2023 at 11:30 a.m. UTC
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Gitcoin’s Owocki Says Crypto Can Regenerate the World. Just Don’t Call Him Starry-Eyed
A programmer by training, Kevin Owocki's view of securities law is not based in any formal legal training but crypto optimism, evolutionary science, economics and legal theory...
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Mar 8, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. UTC
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Upcoming Upgrades That Will Shape the Ethereum Ecosystem
Here are some approaching dates and launches that Ethereum followers and observers should keep an eye on.
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Mar 1, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. UTC
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War of Words Over zkEVMs Might Portend Long Struggle to Tech Maturity
As Polygon and Matter Labs race to bring their zkEVMs to market, both will need to make compromises in the name of security.
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By Sam Kessler
Feb 22, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. UTC
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