Andrew Thurman

Andrew Thurman was a tech reporter at CoinDesk. He formerly worked as a weekend editor at Cointelegraph, a partnership manager at Chainlink and a co-founder of a smart-contract data marketplace startup.

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Tech

xDai Wants a Gnosis Merger to Stay Relevant, but Some Tokenholders Are Crying Foul

Project leads see a potentially historic DeFi merger as a way to fend off the competition. Speculators are complaining they’ve been shortchanged.

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Finance

‘Curve Wars’ Heat Up: Emergency DAO Invoked After ‘Clear Governance Attack’

In a governance first, Curve has halted rewards emissions to a pool after it deemed a protocol’s behavior a “clear governance attack.”

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Finance

Ethereum Name Service Tokens Soar After $500M+ Airdrop

The newly formed DAO and its governance tokens are enjoying a picture-perfect launch.

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Finance

Neon Labs Raises $40M to Bring EVM Functionality to Solana

The Ethereum-compatible environment could lead to implementations of popular DeFi protocols on the blockchain.

Neon Labs Director Marina Guryeva (right) speaks at the Breakpoint conference in Lisbon, Portugal. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Maple Finance Launches Permissioned Institutional Lending Pool With BlockTower, Genesis

The KYC-AML compliant pool is BlockTower’s first effort at addressing a multi-trillion dollar opportunity.

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Tech

EOS Foundation CEO: ‘EOS as It Stands Is a Failure’

In an effort to position the recently formed EOS Foundation as an ecosystem leader, CEO Yves La Rose claimed in a speech Wednesday that “EOS has been a terrible investment.”

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Finance

Stellar Validators Vote In AMM Integration That Could Boost Liquidity

In addition to an order book-based token router, the protocol now boasts a parallel automated market maker.

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Finance

ConsenSys AG Shareholders Readying Legal Action Over Share Valuation

At issue is the valuation of key pillars of the Ethereum ecosystem, including MetaMask and Infura.

ConsenSys founder Joseph Lubin (Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Tech

Avalanche Developers and Investors Form $200M ‘Blizzard’ Investment Fund

The early-stage investment firm and incubator will be operated by former Ava Labs and Avalanche Foundation staff.

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Tech

Here’s Why a CryptoPunk Sold for $530M

A half-billion-dollar NFT “sale”? On-chain analysts say it may have just been an elaborate publicity stunt.

The most expensive Punk in history? Maybe not. (Larva Labs)