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Recent Briefings
Vitalik Buterin just locked in Ethereum's long-term technical direction with a new decade-long roadmap focused on quantum security and STARK verification. We also break down eToro's push into decentra…
The CLARITY Act is suddenly unblocking as key law enforcement groups drop their organized opposition, clearing a major political hurdle for a pre-August Senate vote. We also break down Robinhood's exp…
Robinhood is making a massive bet on Ethereum's institutional future with its own Layer 2 launch, while Tidal sets a strict new boundary for AI music royalties. Also on the radar: the crypto industry'…
On The Onchain Dispatch: The Ethereum ecosystem's structural overhaul continues today with the launch of Ethereum Institutional, a new independent nonprofit taking over enterprise relations from the F…
Ethereum's core development is fracturing into competing research nodes following the Foundation's recent budget cuts, fundamentally altering how protocol upgrades will be sequenced. Also on the radar…
On The Onchain Dispatch: Another early Ethereum pioneer bows to the current Layer 2 consolidation, with Loopring shutting down its DEX in the face of zkEVM dominance. Separately, crypto hiring is rota…
On The Onchain Dispatch: The fallout from the Ethereum Foundation's restructuring continues as its dedicated privacy lab shuts down, accelerating the push toward decentralized protocol funding. Plus: …
Today on The Onchain Dispatch: The opposition to the CLARITY Act expands beyond law enforcement as community banks mount a $6 million campaign framing crypto as a threat to rural lending. Plus: Arbitr…
On The Onchain Dispatch: As Layer 2 TVL consolidates, a two-hour outage on Base tests the ecosystem's operational maturity. Plus: stablecoin settlement crosses into government workflows in Peru, and o…
Europe's MiCA framework just forced the world's largest exchange to halt regional onboarding, while traditional financial giants in Asia buy up local infrastructure. In this edition, we unpack the res…