The Protocol: ENS on Bitcoin; Worldcoin, Without the Eyeballs
Plus: What Zuck can teach DAOs about governance.
June 2025
Mark Zuckerberg Could Teach DAOs Like Compound a Governance Lesson
A $24M “governance attack” led by a whale known as Humpy shows the flaws of a “one token, one vote” system, says security audit firm OpenZeppelin.
Coinbase Delists Wrapped Bitcoin wBTC, Citing ‘Listing Concerns’
Announcement comes shortly after the exchange launched its own ‘wrapped’ bitcoin on Base – cbBTC
Decentralized AI Project Morpheus Goes Live on Mainnet
Like other decentralized AI networks, Morpheus seeks to curtail the negative side effects of AI, such as centralization, censorship, and veri monopolies.
Lido Co-Founders Said to Plot Competitor to Sam Altman’s World Network
The new digital identity platform, Y, forgoes World Network’s controversial biometric authentication for a system based on users’ online activities.
Aave Gauges Community Interest for Expansion to Bitcoin Layer 2 Spiderchain
The potential deployment on a Bitcoin layer 2 by the largest DeFi lending protocol highlights the appetite for harnessing the original blockchain for purposes that are commonplace elsewhere in the crypto ecosystem.
Protocol Village: Pulse, Web3 Health Tech Startup, Closes $1.8M Pre-Seed Round
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Nov. 7-13.
The Protocol: Reinvent Ethererum, and Just Don’t Break Bitcoin
In founding editor Bradley Keoun’s last issue of The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly newsletter devoted to blockchain technology, we’re covering Trump’s DOGE whistle and the slew of announcements from the big Ethereum conference Devcon in Bangkok.
Blockchain Analyzer ‘Bubblemaps’ Adds AI to Help Identify Insider-Controlled Tokens
The app’s new update seeks to boost transparency in the market by exposing token ownership patterns that may indicate centralization or manipulation.
Ethereum Developer Consensys Plots Token Issuance in Sign of Trump Thaw
The long-anticipated LINEA token comes as the next U.S. president is expected to usher in a more favorable regulatory environment for cryptocurrency.