Arbitrum’s fraud proofs haven’t been used in the two years since it launched

    Offchain Labs co-founder Ed Felten said there were one or two fraud challenges submitted on a version of Arbitrum running on the Ethereum proof-of-work fork after the Merge, which was defeated. Not a single fraud proof has been submitted on Arbitrum since it first launched its mainnet with the built-in security feature in August 2021,…

    DeFi 3.0 introduces a new way to hedge crypto assets against volatility

    Bumper removes downside volatility for protected assets, making it a reliable alternative to crypto options trading. Price volatility is one of the biggest deterrents of the crypto market, dissuading newcomers from trading or investing in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ether. Extreme market conditions can trigger billions of dollars in liquidations, making it less than ideal for…

    Financial privacy and regulation can co-exist with ZK proofs — Vitalik Buterin

    A new paper co-authored by Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin highlights the use of zero-knowledge proofs as a tool for regulatory compliance and on-chain privacy. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has published a research paper diving into privacy pool systems as a tool to achieve more privacy in financial transactions, allowing users to prove dissociation from illicit funds through zero-knowledge-proof…

    Shibarium hits 1M wallets amid meteoric growth, SHIB yet to catch up

    Shibarium network activity has soared despite the price of SHIB falling more than 20% since the tumultuous launch of the layer-2 network. The total number of wallets on Shiba Inu’s newly launched layer-2 blockchain, the Shibarium network, has surpassed the one million mark in a meteoric rise since its relaunch. The milestone — announced in…

    MakerDAO co-founder proposes fork of Solana codebase for native chain

    Rune Christensen stated that Solana’s codebase should be the foundation of MakerDAO’s upcoming blockchain, as he highlighted that it’s optimized for building “highly efficient blockchains.” MakerDAO co-founder Rune Christensen has submitted a proposal to build the decentralized finance project’s upcoming native chain off of a fork of Solana’s codebase, and not the Ethereum Virtual Machine despite its…

    Ethereum staking services agree to 22% limit of all validators

    The 22% self-limit rule ensures at least four major staking entities would need to collude in order for the chain to reach finalization. At least five Ethereum liquid staking providers have either imposed or are working to impose a self-limit rule in which they promise not to own more than 22% of the Ethereum staking…