Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk's weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I'm Margaux Nijkerk, CoinDesk’s Ethereum Reporter. SAM ALTMAN’S WORLD NETWORK AND ...
Mainnets process real transactions with actual economic value, while testnets use valueless tokens for experimentation and testing. Testnets allow developers to test smart contracts, DeFi protocols ...
In blockchain, a rollback refers to reversing its history to counter a disastrous event, such as big hacks threatening to disrupt the ecosystem, the discovery of critical protocol bugs or ...
Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk's weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I'm Ben Schiller. L1 tokens broadly underperformed in 2025 despite a backdrop of ...
Movement Labs, the developer of a layer 2 blockchain for Ethereum based on Facebook’s Move language virtual machine, is reportedly raising $100 million in a Series B round that will value the company ...
Ethereum is down 47% in 2025 and continues to underperform other top cryptocurrencies. Ethereum's rivals are rapidly gaining ground and taking away market share in key areas. Top developers and ...