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Monad's biggest test since its November 2025 mainnet launch arrives on November 24, 2026, when 16.8 billion MON tokens unlock in a single event. That is about 32.8% of the tokens currently in
LayerZero Labs is building Zero, a new Layer-1 blockchain, because its existing interoperability protocol cannot offer the throughput, privacy, and control that large financial institutions n
Dominic Williams is a British computer scientist and entrepreneur who founded the DFINITY Foundation and serves as its President and Chief Scientist, building the Internet Computer Protocol (
Polkadot was called an "Ethereum killer" because it was built by Ethereum's former chief technology officer to solve the scaling problems Ethereum hadn't fixed yet, using a design of connecte
World Liberty Financial Opens Live Vote on Staking Rewards @worldlibertyfi has put a governance staking program to a community vote, with results so far showing the $WLFI holder base almost e
@circle has launched Digital Asset-Backed Borrowing, a new service that lets institutional clients access dollar liquidity against their Bitcoin holdings without having to sell them. The prod
How Stellar Reaches Agreement Without Mining or Staking @StellarOrg runs its native asset on the Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP), first introduced in 2015 by David Mazières (@dmazieres). Maz
The Zcash Foundation has denied any connection to a new token project called ZRC-20 after a post claimed that Zcash had launched its own token standard. The issue began with a post from the @
World Liberty Financial Opens Live Vote on Staking Rewards @worldlibertyfi has put a governance staking program to a community vote, with results so far showing the $WLFI holder base almost e
The Zcash Foundation has denied any connection to a new token project called ZRC-20 after a post claimed that Zcash had launched its own token standard. The issue began with a post from the @
How Stellar Reaches Agreement Without Mining or Staking @StellarOrg runs its native asset on the Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP), first introduced in 2015 by David Mazières (@dmazieres). Maz
Circle has launched Digital Asset-Backed Borrowing for eligible Circle Mint institutions, allowing customers to deposit Bitcoin, mint cirBTC and borrow USDC through third-party lending market
