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Fantom Foundation CEO Michael Kong speaks to Decrypt's Dan Roberts at Chainlink SmartCon in New York.

Multiple Blockchains Will Succeed, ‘But Not 20 or 30’: Fantom Foundation CEO

How PussyDAO Is Using Solana NFTs to Sell Physical Underwear
Most people today likely first associate NFTs with digital-only items like profile pictures, artwork, and collectibles. But blockchain tokens can also be tied to physical art, property, and o...
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Andrew HaywardOct 1, 2022
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Maple Finance Aims to Be the Shopify of Crypto Lending
Decrypting DeFi is Decrypt's DeFi email newsletter. (art: Grant Kempster) Last week Maple Finance, a credit-facility-as-a-service platform, announced that it had spun up a new $300 million len...
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Liam J. KellyOct 1, 2022
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This Week in Coins: Bitcoin, Ethereum Escape Broader Market Slide
This week in coins. Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. On Tuesday, crypto fleetingly regained a trillion dollar market cap. The modest gains were wiped out the following day by a br...
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Tim HakkiOct 1, 2022
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‘Ethereum Killer’ Solana Suffers Another Major Outage
A misconfigured node caused the Solana network to stop processing transactions and go offline on Friday, the fourth major outage for the popular blockchain since January, when it had a string ...
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Jason NelsonOct 1, 2022
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SEC Must Turn Over Emails About Ethereum—But It Won’t Help Ripple, Lawyers Say
Ripple notched another procedural victory late this week in its ongoing legal battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which sued the crypto payments firm in 2020 for the unregister...
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Sander LutzSep 30, 2022
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The Ethereum Merge Is Here—What Comes Next?

Ethereum’s core developers already have their eyes set on the network’s next upgrade, Shanghai. What it will consist of, however, is up for debate.

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Ethereum is set to transition to proof of stake, which means the biggest network for NFTs will become environmentally friendly.

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