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Bitcoin Layer-2 Network Botanix Launches Mainnet, Touts Decentralization ‘From the Start’

Botanix Labs Launches Bitcoin-Based Layer-2 Blockchain Botanix, a Bitcoin-based layer-2 blockchain, successfully…

Pump.fun memecoin dominance plummets as rival projects lure traders

Pump.fun’s memecoin dominance is cracking amid rising competition and diminishing interest in…

Trump-backed World Liberty Financial proposes making its token tradable but insiders will have to wait to cash out

World Liberty Financial, the DeFi protocol backed by the Trump family, proposed…

Solana data storage project wins Colosseum hackathon

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Airdrop hunters pour $1.5bn into Hyperliquid projects. Here’s where they’re looking

Traders are pouring millions into a handful of new apps and projects…

‘The world supercomputer’: Nexus activates final testnet for AI-ready blockchain

transcript the world 's most powerful computer will be built by community…

How Berachain shed $2bn in investor funds in two months

Berachain generated a lot of buzz in DeFi with memes and a…

‘You’re too disorganised’: Ethereum Foundation’s boss lays out turnaround as opportunities multiply

More than a decade after its founding, Ethereum is undergoing its most…

What the Sony Walkman and Bitcoin have in common

The Unlikely Cousins: Walkman and Bitcoin, Echoes of a Revolution Both the…

Hungry investors plough more than $380m into quartet of these new DeFi protocols

Here comes the next generation. Even as Hyperliquid and Pump.fun have captured…