Rollups Are ‘Copies of the EVM,’ Not True Scaling Solutions, Says Developer
According to Adrian Brink, co-founder of Anoma and Namada, rollups offer little new functionality beyond the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). He argues they are essentially execution-sharding solutions presented as true…
Value Locked in Defi Holds the Line at $50B, After Temporarily Shedding $8B in Mid-March
The total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) during the first week of April is about $50 billion, roughly the same as on March 1. The value locked dropped…
Decentralized Exchange Pancakeswap to Launch Version 3 Iteration in April
On March 4, the decentralized exchange Pancakeswap announced that the team plans to launch its version three (v3) iteration of the platform during the first week of April 2023. Pancakeswap…
Uniswap’s $165 Million Series B Capital Raise One of the Largest by a Crypto Firm in 2022
Uniswap Labs, the firm behind the Uniswap decentralized exchange protocol, announced on Thursday that it raised $165 million in a Series B funding round. According to one report, the capital…
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Believes Decentralization Is Part of a ‘Gradient Scale’
Changpeng Zhao, founder and CEO of Binance, the biggest cryptocurrency exchange by volumes traded, pondered the importance of decentralization and the relation it has with security and freedom. Zhao stated…