Blockworks

Ether has underperformed relative to bitcoin following the Merge — but Drake thinks positive present and future indicators are abound

zkWASM prover research is underway and expected to launch next year

The Ritual platform is set to launch in early 2024

The IBC-built EVM chain announced Cosmos transactions would be deprecated by 2024 Q3, streamlining the software

zkSharding, the =nil; Foundation’s entry into the layer-2 race, aims to help reduce liquidity fragmentation on-chain

The staking program will let users lock ARB tokens for up to a year and receive yield — some in the DAO expressed inflation and regulatory concerns

The fullstack app is hoping to move away from “one token one vote” governance and make permissions more precise

PPOI builds off Vitalik Buterin’s paper on Privacy Pools, but at a protocol level

The swap aggregator announced at Solana Breakpoint that JUP was forthcoming — with a majority of tokens going to the public via airdrops and a sale

Focusing on a few key geographic markets isn’t decentralization: Web3 needs to do better