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BitcoinWorld BNB Chain Proposes BEP-675 Upgrade to Nearly Double BSC Transaction Throughput BNB Chain has unveiled a proposal aimed at significantly increasing the transaction processing capa
Nearly 200,000 XRP was drained from the Coreum XRPL bridge on Aug. 9 after an attacker appears to have exploited a flaw in its relayer logic, rather than a vulnerability in the XRP Ledger its
The problem with cross-chain data Most blockchains have no native way to verify what is happening on other networks. A smart contract on one chain cannot confirm whether a payment settled on
Smart contracts are powerful, but they are also blind. They cannot see prices, read weather data, or verify that a payment arrived in a bank account. Oracles are the infrastructure that conne
Most people who trade on decentralized exchanges do not realize they are acting as their own market makers. Intent-based DEXs flip this model. Instead of interacting with a liquidity pool dir
Crypto markets were broadly in the red on August 10, but a handful of tokens pushed firmly against the tide. Leading the charge was @CurveFinance's native token $CRV, which climbed 9% over 24
Slippage is one of those DeFi terms that can sound complicated until you actually see it happen during a swap. You choose the token you want to sell, select what you want to receive, enter yo
Chainlink (LINK) is currently trading near $8.30, with its market capitalization holding around $6.22 billion. Over the last 24 hours, the token’s price has remained steady, fluctuating betwe
AIP-146 lets anyone who controls enough staked $APT push transactions with up to 100 times the network's normal gas limits, and on balance it reads as good news for the token: it gives the bi
Chainlink is working to become the operating system for tokenized finance by supplying the data feeds, cross-chain messaging, and settlement tools banks need to move real securities onchain.
RippleX is the developer ecosystem team inside Ripple (@Ripple) that supports builders on the XRP Ledger (XRPL). It is not a separate company and not a token, but the unit that writes tooling
Caffeine is an AI platform built by the DFINITY Foundation that turns plain English instructions into working, full-stack web applications, then deploys them directly on the Internet Computer
