Developers

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‘Get a Horse!’: What Crypto Can Learn From Early Automakers' Struggle for Acceptance
Automotive pioneers were surrounded by fraudsters, hated by banks and attacked by trolls. Sound familiar?
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StarkWare co-founders CEO Uri Kolodny and President Eli Ben-Sasson. (Natalie Schor/StarkWare)
StarkWare’s ‘Starknet Stacks’ Could Add to Growing Field of Blockchain-in-a-Box Offerings
The announcement is part of a growing trend in Ethereum’s layer-2 ecosystem, where developers can create application-specific chains using the blockchain’s native software sta...
StarkWare co-founders CEO Uri Kolodny and President Eli Ben-Sasson. (Natalie Schor/StarkWare)

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Crypto Analysts Can Learn Something From Baseball
Searching for crypto’s future stars among young prospects.
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Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Chris Dixon at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019. (Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch)
Silicon Valley: The Mecca for Venture Capital May Be Cooling on Crypto
The storied birthplace of the U.S. tech industry is dripping with talent and money. But crypto founders who live in the No. 8 spot on CoinDesk’s Crypto Hubs 2023 list say that...
Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Chris Dixon at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019. (Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

Sandeep Naliwal, co-founder Polygon. (Polygon)
Polygon Introduces AI Interface Powered by ChatGPT to Aid App Developers
The artificial-intelligence interface, called Polygon Copilot, will help developers obtain analytics and insights for their applications on the Polygon blockchain.
Sandeep Naliwal, co-founder Polygon. (Polygon)

Alchemy introduced its AI tool suite, AlchemyAI (Alchemy)
Blockchain Developer Platform Alchemy Releases AI-Powered Tools for Web3 Builders
AlchemyAI will launch as two new products – an in-app chatbot and a ChatGPT plugin – to help web3 developers access data faster and speed up product development.
Alchemy introduced its AI tool suite, AlchemyAI (Alchemy)

Ethereum developers decide on scope of Dencun. (Unsplash)
Ethereum Developers Cement Final Lineup of Changes in ‘Dencun’ Upgrade
Proto-danksharding is at the heart of the package, with other improvements for storage on-chain, as well as minor code changes related to the Ethereum Virtual Machine.
Ethereum developers decide on scope of Dencun. (Unsplash)

Alchemy CEO Nikil Viswanathan (Pantera Capital)
Blockchain Developer Platform Alchemy Launches Public Support for ZK Rollup Starknet
The blockchain is the first with native account abstraction that the Web3 developer platform offers, allowing developers to build applications with Alchemy’s infrastructure on...
Alchemy CEO Nikil Viswanathan (Pantera Capital)

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Crypto Innovation and Regulation Should Be Partners, Not Adversaries
Developers are flourishing elsewhere amid strident relationships with U.S. regulators.
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Armani Ferrante (left) with tech support at Breakpoint 2023 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
Heavy Demand for Madlads NFT Breaks Internet, Delays Mint
The Madlads NFT is meant to be the first in a novel spin on digital collectibles from Armani Ferrante and Tristan Yver, two well-known figures in the Solana ecosystem.
Armani Ferrante (left) with tech support at Breakpoint 2023 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)