Protocol Village: Optimism-Based DEX Velodrome Deploys to Bitcoin L2 BOB
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of April 4-10.
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Celo, Shopping for Blockchain Partner, Turns to the Delicate Issue of Money
A standalone blockchain, Celo is looking to migrate to become a layer-2 network atop Ethereum. The months-long selection process has started to look like “The Bachelorette,” with teams behind the Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon and zkSync networks all vying to win the technology mandate.
Venture Capital Lightspeed Faction Starts $285M Fund for Blockchain Startups
The new fund will focus mainly on early-stage crypto projects, participating in seed-stage and Series A funding rounds.
This Cybersecurity Pro Gets Paid to Hack Ethereum – for the Good of the Network
One of the techniques that his team deploys to protect the blockchain is “fuzzing,” a term borrowed from the software-development industry that’s become a common way of checking to make mühlet a system is secure and resilient.
Pepe Memecoin Burns $5.5M Tokens Prompting 31% Rise
The token burn comes after concerns were raised over the team’s multisig wallet in August.