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Tech

Cardano Scaling Node Hydra Head Goes Live on Blockchain's Mainnet

The tool, the first in a planned suite of products, aims to speed up transaction times on Cardano.

Monad Labs is looking to provide faster EVM processing than Ethereum. (Julian Hochgesang/Unsplash)

Tech

Blockstream Developer Neigut Expects ‘Cambrian Explosion’ of Bitcoin Layer 2 Protocols

Bitcoin already has one of the most diverse layer 2 ecosystems of any network, but coming technology upgrades could lead to an acceleration in the blockchain's development, according to Blockstream's Lisa Neigut.

Blockstream's Lisa Neigut speaks at Consensus 2023 in Austin, Texas. (CoinDesk)

Tech

Bitcoin White Paper to Be Removed in Next Apple MacBook Update: Report

The "Easter egg" went viral earlier this year, but won’t remain on Apple for long.

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Tech

ZkSync-Based DEX Merlin Drained of $1.8M During Public Token Sale Despite ‘Audit’

The project garnered hype among Crypto Twitter users for its attractive yield offered on deposits.

Computer Hacking Hackers (Shutterstock)

Tech

Celo Joins Chainlink Program Giving Developers Access to Data Feeds

More than 90 Celo community members voted in favor of joining the Chainlink Scale program while three voted to not join.

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Finance

Here Are Six New Projects Looking to Mitigate Bitcoin Mining’s Energy Footprint

From technical improvement efficiencies to novel market-based solutions, a plethora of projects are trying to improve the bitcoin mining’s environmental footprint.

Bitcoin mining can soak up renewable energy that is hard to transmit or consume locally, giving a leg up to energy producers. (Yunha)

Opinion

A ‘Super App’ May Be Web3’s Super Power

Elon Musk has a vision to turn Twitter into an all-in-one app, like WeChat. Turns out, permissionless and composable crypto platforms together form something better than the sum of its parts.

The Saga smartphone. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

CleanSpark Buys $144.9M of Bitcoin Mining Rigs to Double Its Hashrate

The brand new Bitmain Antminer S19 XPs miners will be delivered by September.

CleanSpark's bitcoin mining facility in College Park, Georgia. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Tech

Shiba Inu's Testnet 'Puppynet' Sees Rising Activity Ahead of Shibarium Mainnet

More than 700,000 transactions have been conducted on the test network so far, although that isn’t extremely large relative to the hype.

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Tech

Cardano Users Can Soon Access Ethereum Dapps Directly From ADA Wallets

The move will be enabled after a new feature on Milkomeda, an Ethereum Virtual Machine network, goes live.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)