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Protocol Village: Team Behind Mento, EVM for Stable Assets on Celo, Raises $10M, Publishes Roadmap

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Oct. 10-16.

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Protocol Village: Fuse, Layer-1 Chain Focused on Payments, Introduces 'Charge' for Merchants

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Oct. 3-9.

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Protocol Village: Firoza Finance Launches $2M Pilot Program for Shariah-Compliant DeFi With 'Mudarabah Smart Contract'

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Sept. 26-Oct. 2.

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The Protocol: Inside North Korea's Campaign to Put Crypto Developers on Payroll

In this week's issue of CoinDesk's weekly blockchain tech newsletter, we've got names, details and anecdotes on crypto companies' unwitting hires of North Korean developers. PLUS month-end rankings for bitcoin, ether and other digital assets in the CoinDesk 20 index during a strangely bullish September.

"Naoki Murano," one of the suspected North Korean IT workers identified by ZachXBT, provided companies with an authentic-looking Japanese passport. (Image courtesy of Taylor Monahan)

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Protocol Village: BitcoinOS, Bitcoin Layer-2 Project, Open-Sources 'BitSNARK' Verification Protocol

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Sept. 19-25.

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Protocol Village: Delphi Ventures Leads $6M Investment Into Gunzilla Games, Becomes Project's Largest Validator

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Sept. 12-18.

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Decentralized AI Society Launched to Fight Tech Giants Who 'Own the Regulators'

Eight founding member projects include Morpheus and Filecoin Foundation, with Michael Casey, CoinDesk's former chief content officer, as chairman of the new industry group.

DAIS Chair Michael Casey moderating a panel at the DeAI Summit Singapore. (Amitoj Singh/CoinDesk)

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Protocol Village: Oracle Platform DIA Introduces 'Lumina,' HashKey Cloud Helps Decentralize Metis Sequencer

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Sept. 5-11.

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Protocol Village: Food DePIN Bistroo Moves to Peaq, ApeChain Releases 'The Blueprint'

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Aug. 29-Sept. 4.

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Protocol Village: Sony-Backed Soneium Blockchain Launches Testnet, Peaq Powers Drone Network

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Aug. 22-28.

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