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GM, Matter Labs is the story of the year. Its zkSync platform is used by millions who enjoy faster and cheaper transactions on Ethereum. Oh, and it is about to launch the year’s most-anticipated token. But it became talk-of-the-town for all the wrong reasons last week when it emerged
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GM, The trial of the developers behind a Web3 platform called Tornado Cash is dividing public opinion. Tornado Cash is a service that brings privacy to the transparent world of blockchain-based transactions. One developer has been sentenced to five years in jail in The Netherlands, while another faces trial in
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GM, It’s been an eventful few weeks for the concept of decentralized, blockchain-based identification. Worldcoin, the project co-founded by Sam Altman, last month announced plans to introduce its own chain. That was quickly followed by MicroStrategy—yes, the firm synonymous with buying loads of Bitcoin—revealing it is working
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GM, Bitcoin continues to be the story of Web3 this year, so you know we had to attend the inaugural Bitcoin Asia event which took place on SO WHAT’s home turf in Hong Kong. We spent the week at side events, dinners, drink meetups, breakfasts and, of course, the
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Decentralized physical infrastructure network are offering new ways for cloud computing, mobile networks, EV charging and much more Decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) is one of the buzziest topics in Web3 right now. The concept is to build physical networks that can run without middlemen. File-storage, WiFi, mapping and artificial
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GM, It finally happened. Last week saw the latest Bitcoin halving, an event that decreases the rewards received by Bitcoin miners—who are integral to the process of transactions and new coin minting. If you heard about the halving but don’t really get it, this is the issue for
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GM, Bitcoin, Bitcoin, Bitcoin. The upcoming halving is all that Web3 is talking about—although the crazy weather in Dubai, where the latest Token 2049 event is happening, is not far behind. Halvings tend to be a tense affair. Past events have been preceded by a sizeable drop in Bitcoin
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GM, Dogecoin. Pepe Coin. Dogwifhat. Degen. Shib Inu. Bonk. Based Fink. Jeo Boden. These are some of the thousands of ‘memecoins’ that traders have bought this year. Memecoins are a unique part of the cryptocurrency landscape. Based around tapping online memes, they offer little in the way of utility, trade
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GM, Starbucks became the biggest global brand to dive into NFTs when it announced a Web3 loyalty program called Odyssey in September 2022. But that voyage of discovery comes to an end this week after the coffee giant abruptly announced its closure after less than 18 months. Odyssey was widely-heralded
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GM, We wrote about Nouns DAO, one of the most prominent DAOs in Web3 back in September, but this week we are looking at DAOs in more detail after the US state of Wyoming introduced a new law that permits them to operate as non-profit organizations. The legislation, the latest
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GM, It may seem obvious now, but when Solana launched in 2020, there was no real alternative to Ethereum. The expensive gas fees required to make any transaction on the Ethereum blockchain were exactly why Solana was created, as we explained last week. Today, though, there’s any number of
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This week we begin a new series looking at Solana, a blockchain firm that might just be the most interesting company in Web3. That’s a bold statement to make but there’s so much about Solana that captures the rollercoaster-like nature of Web3 over the last few years. From