The Polygon Heimdall V2 mainnet, the consensus client for the Polygon proof-of-stake chain, went down on Wednesday due to a suspected “consensus bug,” the Polygon team said. The service has…
This is a segment from the 0xResearch newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe.We’re kicking off this week with a collection of charts around political markets on Polymarket, Maple’s unstoppable SyrupUSDC…
Key Points:Consensus reached in China-U.S. trade talk, market impact noted.Equity markets react positively to new progress.Focus on rare earth supplies and tariff discussion.
China and the U.S. held their first Economic…
Staking protocol Symbiotic has launched a shared staking dubbed ‘Symbiotic Relay,’ that enables seamless multichain staking and consensus verification.The feature allows developers to leverage staked assets from any integrated blockchain…
This is a segment from the Lightspeed newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe.For all its speed and throughput, Solana has always wrestled with the fact that the tech powering its…
Anza, a Solana blockchain infrastructure firm spun out of Solana Labs, has proposed a new proof-of-stake consensus called Alpenglow that it claims would be “the biggest change to Solana’s core…
Berachain is focused on building “decorrelated populations” of users to guard against market reflexivity, said Smokey the Bera, theblockchain’s pseudonymous founder, onstage at CoinDesk’s Consensus 2025 event in Toronto.Reflexivity is…
As 2025 unfolds, the bedrock consensus mechanisms powering Bitcoin and Ethereum—proof-of-work (PoW) and proof-of-stake (PoS)—are under fire after hacks and halving-driven budget fears. Rivals like Stellar’s trust-based PoA and Quai’s…
Sui Mysticeti Upgrade is the next step in Sui Network‘s consensus mechanism, focusing on speed and efficiency. Built on a dynamic DAG structure and intelligent FastPath technology, Mysticeti v2 significantly…
How is crypto changing the face of finance? What’s next for stablecoins, tokenization, and Web 3 marketing? How will digital assets be regulated in the future? These are just some…