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Regulatory Pressure Did Not Shut Down Privacy Tool, Aztec Founders Say

Despite U.S. efforts to sanction Tornado Cash and other crypto privacy tools, Aztec says it shut down its Ethereum zero-knowledge tools for commercial reasons.

By Anna Baydakova

Mar 24, 2023 at 5:26 p.m. UTC

Mar 24, 2023

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Matter Labs Opens zkSync Era to Users, Claiming First in ‘Zero Knowledge’ Tech on Ethereum

After zkSync Era was launched only for developers last month, the project took the additional step Friday of opening to general users. The latest push comes just days ahead of the rival Polygon system’s planned rollout Monday of its own “zero knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine.”

By Margaux Nijkerk

Mar 24, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. UTC

Mar 24, 2023

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Ethereum Network DRPC Aims to Quell Centralization Risks Ahead of Shanghai Upgrade

DRPC developers say Ethereum remains dependent on a few major centralized RPC players, which undermines ecosystem sustainability and security.

By Shaurya Malwa

Mar 23, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. UTC

Mar 23, 2023

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Ethereum Usage Will Drop If the Blockchain Doesn’t Boost Speed: Bank of America

The network has had a first-mover advantage thus far as a platform developers could build apps on, a report from the bank said.

By Will Canny

Mar 23, 2023 at 11:47 a.m. UTC

Mar 23, 2023

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Staking

ConsenSys’ MetaMask Institutional Starts Staking Marketplace With Allnodes, Blockdaemon, Kiln

The new marketplace comes just weeks before Ethereum’s much-anticipated Shanghai hard fork that should spur growth in staking services.

By Bradley Keoun

Mar 22, 2023 at 1:00 p.m. UTC

Mar 22, 2023

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Mining

Bitcoin Mining Firm Navier Starts Tokenized Hashrate Marketplace for 'Qualified' Customers

The Navier platform is intended to give users more control over their acquired hashrate, and enable them to sell it on.

By Eliza Gkritsi

Mar 22, 2023 at 12:50 p.m. UTC

Mar 22, 2023

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Valid points

Latest Ethereum Blocks Suggest Validators Are Reversing Censorship

Noncensoring relays such as Agnostic and ultra sound are delivering more data blocks on Ethereum than Flashbots, the one-time king of MEV-delivering relays.

By Margaux Nijkerk

Mar 22, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. UTC

Mar 22, 2023

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Polygon

Polygon Partners With Salesforce for NFT-Based Loyalty Program

Salesforce partnership with the blockchain platform marks another major company’s investment into customer engagement initiatives using Web3 technologies.

By Elizabeth Napolitano

Mar 17, 2023 at 10:58 p.m. UTC

Mar 17, 2023

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