Decentralization

Brave

Brave Integrates .Crypto Blockchain Domains, Expanding Access to Web 3.0

Benjamin PowersMay 13, 2021

Brave users can access 30,000 decentralized sites and 700,000 blockchain domain names.

Opinion

Uniswap’s ‘Token’ Issue

Daniel KuhnApr 1, 2021

A battle between a decentralized exchange and a token project raises questions over what level of control creators can exercise in crypto.

Terra

Terra’s 25-Fold Price Jump This Year Shows Growing Bet on Algorithmic Stablecoins

Muyao ShenMay 14, 2021

The South Korean-based stablecoin platform Terra has seen its market capitalization overtake better-known decentralized rival Maker's.

Governance

The Graph to Host Protocol Governance on Decentralized GitHub Alternative Radicle

Benjamin PowersMar 11, 2021

Radicle enables collaborative permissionless code in a decentralized way.

Mergers

‘Keanu’ Explained: What It Means to Merge Two Ethereum Projects

Brady DaleMar 11, 2021

Keep and NuCypher, ICO-era survivors with $500M in combined assets, may soon forge a new model of cooperation among decentralized protocols.

Decentralization

Decentralization

Dapps Don’t Care About Your Feelings

Marc Hochstein

By testing the limits of what's permissible on Binance Smart Chain, anonymous developers are testing whether it's really a blockchain.

Binance

Controversial Dapps Test Binance Smart Chain’s Decentralization

David Pan

Developers built politically sensitive applications on Binance Smart Chain as a way of showing the increasingly popular blockchain platform is not as decentralized as Ethereum. The dapps remain online.

Web 3.0

Lessons from CoinDesk’s One-Day YouTube Shutdown

Michael J. Casey

The helplessness we felt during the suspension points to a much bigger problem for everyone, writes Michael J. Casey.

Information

Ideamarket Is a Literal Marketplace for Ideas (and Online Reputation)

Benjamin Powers

The goal is to relieve social media platforms of the task of making judgments on behalf of the public.

NFTs

Blockchain Bites: Why Buy an NFT?

Daniel Kuhn

Investors may be realizing the same deflationary market mechanisms that apply to bitcoin’s scarcity creates similar opportunities in NFTs.

Bitcoin Core

Bitcoin Core Lead Maintainer Steps Back, Encourages Decentralization

Alyssa Hertig

"One thing is clear: This is a serious project now, and we need to start taking decentralization seriously," said Wladimir van der Laan.

Decentralization

Sci-Hub Leaves Handshake Blockchain After 2 Days, Citing Centralization Concerns

Anna Baydakova

Sci-Hub, a pirate library of academic papers censored by Twitter, PayPal and domain systems, left the distributed domain platform Handshake after two days, unsatisfied by the level of decentralization.