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The Protocol: Using the Money Printer
If you have the money printer – as is the case for many of the blockchain projects with the power to create their own digital tokens – why wouldn't you use it? PLUS: Vitalik...
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By Bradley Keoun
Apr 3, 2024 at 7:29 p.m. UTC
Apr 3, 2024
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Skyscrapers in a financial district.
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Crypto for Advisors: Understanding The Ethereum Economy
This article examines the advantages of Ethereum as a protocol economy and how one could gain exposure to this breakthrough technology asset.
Skyscrapers in a financial district.
By Sarah MortonChristopher Jensen
Mar 21, 2024 at 3:45 p.m. UTC
Mar 21, 2024
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The Protocol: Bitcoin Halving in 3 Weeks, Solana's Yakovenko on Meme Coins
There's no slowdown in blockchain news, with Ethereum's Dencun upgrade in the rear view mirror and Bitcoin's halving now just over three weeks away. We spoke with Solana's Ana...
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By Bradley Keoun
Mar 20, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. UTC
Mar 20, 2024
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The Protocol: Is Ethereum's Dencun Update All It's Cracked Up To Be?
Some developers think that shifting the Ethereum ecosystem further towards layer 2 networks could risk setting it down the wrong path.
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By Sam Kessler
Mar 13, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. UTC
Mar 13, 2024
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The Protocol: Bitcoin Cry for Help Heard
It may seem perplexing to the corporate mindset that bitcoin's price surged this week to a new all-time high above the old record around $69,000, even as the dominant Bitcoin...
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By Bradley Keoun
Mar 6, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. UTC
Mar 6, 2024
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The Protocol: Bitcoin's Call for Volunteers, Ethena's USDe, Blast's Blast-Off
In this week's issue of CoinDesk's newsletter on blockchain technology, we've got an exclusive interview with Stacks co-creator Muneeb Ali. PLUS: More than $200 million of blo...
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By Bradley Keoun
Feb 28, 2024 at 8:35 p.m. UTC
Feb 28, 2024
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The Protocol: Restaking Tokens Are Exploding, and Restaking Isn't Even Live
In this week's issue of our weekly blockchain tech newsletter, Sam Kessler explores how "liquid restaking tokens" or LRTs are remaking decentralized finance. PLUS: Starknet's...
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By Bradley Keoun
Feb 21, 2024 at 7:13 p.m. UTC
Feb 21, 2024
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The Protocol: Bitcoin's OP_CAT, Fake Ethereum Tokens, Starknet's Airdrop
CoinDesk's Jamie Crawley takes a look at the suddenly-high-profile proposal to revive Bitcoin's historic "OP_CAT" function as a way of enabling more development on the oldest...
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By Bradley Keoun
Feb 14, 2024 at 6:11 p.m. UTC
Feb 14, 2024
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The Protocol: Solana's Missed Moment, Exclusive Farcaster Q&A, Bullish Year of Dragon
Even in a slow week ahead of the Chinese New Year, there's a lot of crypto news to cover. Here's this week's The Protocol, CoinDesk's weekly newsletter devoted to blockchain t...
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By Bradley Keoun
Feb 7, 2024 at 7:15 p.m. UTC
Feb 7, 2024
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The Protocol: Bitcoin NFT Debacle, Vitalik's 30th, Farcaster Frames, 'Private Mempools'
In this week's issue of The Protocol newsletter, our Sam Kessler writes about the "private mempools" that Ethereum users are increasingly relying on to avoid front-running MEV...
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By Bradley Keoun
Jan 31, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. UTC
Jan 31, 2024
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