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Why Did Starbucks' Web3 Project Fail?
Why Did Starbucks' Web3 Project Fail?
Starbucks announced that it is sunsetting Odyssey, the 18-month experiment that uses collectible non-fungible tokens as the anchor of a loyalty program. According to two peopl...
Why Did Starbucks' Web3 Project Fail?

Why ETH ETFs Might Not Get Approved; 3AC's Kyle Davies Not Sorry
Why ETH ETFs Might Not Get Approved; 3AC's Kyle Davies Not Sorry
"CoinDesk Daily" host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the biggest headlines impacting the crypto industry today, including a Bloomberg analyst's prediction that ether ETFs likely...
Why ETH ETFs Might Not Get Approved; 3AC's Kyle Davies Not Sorry

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Immutable, King River Capital, Polygon Labs Set Up $100M Web3 Gaming Fund
Immutable and Polygon Labs will identify investment opportunities while King River will manage the investment process and deploy the capital across game studios and web3 infra...
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Polygon is promoting its new "AggLayer" by distributing hoodies with a depiction evocative of human evolution. (Margaux Nijkerk)
Polygon Lands Astar Network as First User of New 'AggLayer'
By plugging into the AggLayer, Astar users will have access to the liquidity in the Polygon ecosystem, allowing cross-chain transactions between Astar and Polygon zkEVM, suppo...
Polygon is promoting its new "AggLayer" by distributing hoodies with a depiction evocative of human evolution. (Margaux Nijkerk)

Co-founder of Polygon Brendan Farmer (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)
Polygon, StarkWare Tout New 'Circle STARKs' as Breakthrough for Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Circle STARKs are supposed to accelerate the proving process for zero-knowledge rollups, according to a white paper published by Polygon Labs and StarkWare.
Co-founder of Polygon Brendan Farmer (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Legal Experts on How the U.S. Can Finally Regulate DeFi
Legal Experts on How the U.S. Can Finally Regulate DeFi
Rebecca Rettig, Chief Legal and Policy Officer at Polygon Labs, joins law firm Arktouros' co-founder Michael Mosier at Unchained to discuss the paper they have published on de...
Legal Experts on How the U.S. Can Finally Regulate DeFi

Brendan Farmer, Co-Founder of Polygon (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)
Polygon Releases 'Type 1 Prover,' Claiming Milestone Set by Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin
The announcement means that existing EVM chains or optimistic rollups can connect to the prover without modification, then plug into Polygon’s newly released Aggregation layer...
Brendan Farmer, Co-Founder of Polygon (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron. (Polygon Labs)
Polygon Labs Cuts 19% of Staff, 60 Roles, for 'Enhanced Performance'
The Ethereum-focused developer firm attributes the layoffs to working more effectively, rather than financial reasons.
Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron. (Polygon Labs)

Polygon co-founders Sandeep Nailwal, Jordi Baylina and Antoni Martin (Polygon)
Polygon Plans 'AggLayer,' in Bid to Synthesize Modular, Monolithic Blockchains
The new "AggLayer," set for launch next month, relies on zero-knowledge proofs, a type of cryptography that Polygon Labs is betting on as a core underpinning of future blockch...
Polygon co-founders Sandeep Nailwal, Jordi Baylina and Antoni Martin (Polygon)

Screenshot from the new "Verify" tool showing a successful authentication – with transaction hash – of a Fox News article. (VerifyMedia/CoinDesk)
Fox, Polygon Release Blockchain-Powered Tool 'Verify' to Weed Out Deepfakes
"Verify" is an open-source protocol built on Polygon's PoS blockchain, specifically used to establish the origin and history of registered media.
Screenshot from the new "Verify" tool showing a successful authentication – with transaction hash – of a Fox News article. (VerifyMedia/CoinDesk)