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Recent Briefings
Local regulatory battles are driving today's policy landscape, highlighted by a swift industry lawsuit against the new Illinois digital asset tax and a sudden New York City inquiry into prediction mar…
With congressional legislation definitively stalled, federal regulators are making good on their threats to push independent rulemaking. Elsewhere, decentralized governance and digital public infrastr…
Ethereum's core developers are formalizing their long-term defense strategies, releasing a new technical roadmap through 2029 that centers heavily on post-quantum cryptography. Beyond the protocol lay…
Today on The Onchain Dispatch: the friction over Ethereum's staking rewards has escalated from validator pushback to an organized institutional revolt, as major DeFi founders publicly reject proposed …
State capitols are aggressively filling the federal crypto policy vacuum today, from a first-in-the-nation digital asset tax in Illinois to federal court clashes in Michigan. Meanwhile, the backlash a…
The standoff over Ethereum's proposed staking issuance burns has escalated into an explicit revolt. With 99% of participating validators and major liquid staking operators formally signaling their opp…
Today on The Onchain Dispatch: the fallout from Ethereum's proposed staking cap is already rippling into the product layer. Following vocal opposition to EIP-8363, liquid staking giant Ether.fi is spl…
Today on The Onchain Dispatch: a pair of sharp strategic pivots are defining the week. Base's lead Jesse Pollak is publicly walking back the network's 'on-chain social' bet to refocus on global financ…
As Ethereum's staking rate continues to test new highs, a contentious proposal to cap validator rewards is sparking a fundamental debate over the network's monetary policy. We're also looking at a str…
The Ethereum Foundation's latest structural reorganization explicitly prioritizes mainnet development over Layer-2 scaling, responding to the 'fee capture' dilemma we've been tracking across the ecosy…