Developers


Finance

Terra Projects Begin Moving to Polygon 2 Months After UST Debacle

Over $20 million had been earmarked to help projects that are migrating.

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Tech

Bitcoin Core Developer Pieter Wuille Scales Back His Maintenance Role

Peter Wuille has surrendered his maintenance permissions but will continue contributing to various Bitcoin projects.

Bitcoin Core Developer Pieter Wuille (Everpedia.org)

Finance

Texas Feels Like Bitcoin Country (Maybe Because I Was There for a Bitcoin Conference)

A Bitcoin developer conference last week put three important Bitcoin themes in focus: lightning, design and education.

Dusty, a Bitcoin developer, presents Lightning Network splicing which will allow payment channels to easily fluctuate in size. (George Kaloudis/CoinDesk)

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As Polygon Courts Terra Developers, It Takes Shots at Solana

“We wanted to offer as much assistance as we could,” Polygon Studios CEO Ryan Wyatt said on CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover” program.

Polygon Studios on the hunt for talent at a 2022 job fair (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

Polygon Increases KYC Scrutiny of Potential Investments and Grants in India

Polygon is now requiring extensive customer details for prospective partners in India as regulatory scrutiny there grows, according to a source.

Bangalore, Karnataka, India (Abdullah Ahmad/Unsplash)

Finance

Kava Onboards Sushi With $14M in Developer Incentive Funding

The integration will allow Sushi users and developers to have seamless access to the entire $300 billion market value of Ethereum and Cosmos from a single network.

A kava farm (Scot NElson/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons)

Videos

What Ethereum Beacon Chain’s ‘Reorg’ Means for Users and Developers

The Ethereum beacon chain experienced a seven-block deep reorganization Wednesday. “The Hash” squad unpacks what happened, why these developments matter and what this means for users and developers of Ethereum.

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BIP 119: Unpacking CTV and How It Would Change Bitcoin

Right now, we can only use Bitcoin scripts to designate when or why a bitcoin is spent. But what if we could use it to designate how a bitcoin is spent?

(Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment/Getty Images)

Finance

FTX, Liberty City Lead $20M Raise for Dev Platform DoraHacks

The hackathon startup will use the funds to launch an NFT-focused venture fund, among other things.

Scenes from Solana's Miami Hacker House in April 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)