Understanding Aerodrome's Role in the Base L2 Ecosystem
Aerodrome (@AerodromeFi) is the main decentralized exchange and liquidity hub on Base, Coinbase's layer-2 network, and it settles most of the chain's trading volume even though it is not the
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What Is Vitalik Buterin's New Lean Ethereum Roadmap?
Lean Ethereum is Vitalik Buterin's multi-year plan to rebuild nearly every major part of the Ethereum protocol over the next three to four years, with quantum-safe cryptography and built-in p
What Does It Mean to Rent Blockspace on Polkadot, and Who's Doing It?
Renting blockspace on Polkadot means paying in $DOT to reserve processing time on the network's shared validator set, called a core, either in a fixed monthly block or in single-block increme
How Does InterLink Solve the Bot Problem in Web3?
Bots and fake wallets are one of the biggest problems facing Web3 today, because creating a new wallet costs nothing and takes seconds, letting a single person or script control thousands of
Big News for Morpho and Ethena: What is Robinhood Earn?
Robinhood Earn is the company's first onchain lending product, letting eligible US customers earn an estimated 7% APY on the USDG stablecoin directly inside the main Robinhood app (@Robinhood
Trust Wallet Adds Native Support for Robinhood Chain, Opening Stock Tokens to 220 Million Users
Trust Wallet has natively integrated Robinhood Chain, the Ethereum Layer 2 that Robinhood launched to public mainnet on July 1. Users of the self-custodial wallet can now send, swap, and rece
Robinhood Chain Explodes Post-Mainnet Launch
Robinhood Chain (@RobinhoodCrypto) climbed to nearly $79 million in total value locked in its first eight days, up almost 69% in the past 24 hours, a strong start for a blockchain that a brok
Will Robinhood Chain Push ETH's Price to All Time Highs?
In its first week on mainnet, Robinhood Chain pulled more than $70 million in bridged ETH, cleared over $1 billion in trading volume, and processed 17 million transactions. Every one of those
How Do PancakeSwap's CAKE Token Burns Actually Work?
PancakeSwap burns $CAKE by taking a fixed cut of the fees its products earn, using that money to buy CAKE on the open market, and sending the tokens to a wallet no one can spend from. It is a
Chainlink's numbers keep climbing
Chainlink Posts $43.3B TVS and $32.18T in Cumulative Transaction Value @chainlink is reporting $43.3 billion in Total Value Secured (TVS) and $32.18 trillion in cumulative Transaction Value E
Interactive Brokers Launches Major Crypto Expansion: 9 New Tokens and Stablecoin Withdrawal Capability Signal Mainstream Finance’s Crypto Pi...
Interactive Brokers, one of America’s largest retail brokerage platforms, has taken a significant step toward integrating cryptocurrency into mainstream financial infrastructure. The firm ann
Robinhood CEO Calls on Builders to Embed Stock Tokens and RWAs
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev has opened a public call for developers building tokenized-stock and real-world-asset products, asking teams to bring those assets into third-party applications. “If