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ZkSync to Airdrop 17.5% of Token Supply
Nearly 700,000 wallets are eligible to claim the ZK airdrop.
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Optimism Celebrates Stage 1 Decentralization With Permissionless Fault Proofs
Users can now permissionlessly execute withdrawals from OP Mainnet to Layer 1 Ethereum.
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Crypto Markets Dip Following Strong May Jobs Report
Bitcoin is consolidating around $71,000, while Ethereum and Solana dropped by 1%.
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PayPal Brings PYUSD Stablecoin to Solana
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Ethereum
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Consensys Eyes Lido’s Lunch With No-Minimum Pooled Staking
Consensys is targeting the liquid staking sector with its MetaMask Pooled Staking service.
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Optimism Celebrates Stage 1 Decentralization With Permissionless Fault Proofs
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Telegram's The Open Network is 2024's Fastest Growing Chain
TON's ecosystem has succesfully leveraged the messaging app's millions of users.
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StarkWare Reveals Ambitious Plan To Scale Bitcoin Through Controversial Upgrade
The move comes with a $1 million fund for researchers.
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Base Ecosystem TVL Hits All-time High
Activity on Ethereum Layer 2 network Base is surging ahead of Coinbase’s smart wallet release.
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Daily Transactions on NEAR Protocol Surge to 6 Million
Transactions have tripled since the beginning of the year, while wallets have doubled to 75 million.
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Fetch AI, SingularityNET, and Ocean Protocol Schedule ‘ASI Alliance’ Merger For June 13
The three web3 AI projects will merge their tokens and networks.
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Ethereum Loyalists Say ETF News Isn’t Priced in but Bitcoin Maxis Push Back
"Laser-eye" gang is having to eat their words after the ETH ETF approval, but still say ETH will never rival BTC.