Decentralization


Finance

Non-Custodial Liquid Staking Platform Ether.Fi Closes $5.3M Fundraise

The round was co-led by North Island Ventures, Chapter One and Node Capital and included participation from BitMex founder Arthur Hayes.

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Finance

The SEC’s Crackdown on Ethereum Staking Has a Silver Lining

The SEC’s recent actions shut down centralization staking services, but not individual staking and decentralized staking services. That could increase decentralization and help restore crypto’s original mission.

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Consensus Magazine

What Are VCs Funding After FTX? More Decentralized Infrastructure

Infrastructure projects and regulatory-resistant protocols have attracted cautious investors.

Investments dropped off in January 2023, according to data collected by CoinDesk. (Sage Young/CoinDesk)

Tech

Rocket Pool Community Voting Whether to Self-Limit Its Growth

If passed, the vote establishes a guiding set of principles to inform Rocket Pool’s decision-making process in limiting the percentage of staked ether in its ecosystem.

The Ethereum Merge is ready to launch. (DARPA/Wikimedia)

Opinion

What's Holding DAOs Back?

The author of "The DAO Handbook" considers solutions to coordination and regulatory problems plaguing decentralized autonomous organizations.

CityDAO, an experimental project looking to bring real world assets on chainn, collectively governs 40 acres of land in Wyoming. (CityDAO)

Opinion

Tech’s Money Woes: Beginning of the End for Web2?

Gloomy forecasts, mass layoffs and antitrust lawsuits have bruised "Big Tech" over the past year. But that doesn't automatically portend the end of Web2. For Web3 to emerge, we have to address key questions about AI and decentralization.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Tech

The =nil; Foundation Raises $22M to Build Marketplace for Zero-Knowledge Proofs

The funding round led by Polychain Capital aims to make zero-knowledge projects more decentralized, and easier to build.

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Opinion

DeFi’s Difficult Governance Decisions Lie Ahead

Decentralization was proven to be DeFi’s saving grace this year. Shouldn’t protocol governance also be as decentralized as possible?

(Midjourney/CoinDesk)

Finance

Encrypted Messaging Protocol Mask Network Acquires Mastodon Server Pawoo.net

Pawoo.net is the second-largest instance on Mastodon with 800,000 users.

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