It's happening. You feel it, right? The market's shifting. Crypto is more than meme coins and pump and dump schemes in the past. That smart money – real smart money – is still flowing in, but not to the same types of places it used to be. This time, VCs...
Huge venture capital firms are excitedly supporting Web3 startups. These companies are absolutely committed to making the Internet more private, making social media better and making our cybersecurity stronger. Inco, Towns Protocol, Octane, and Optimum have collectively secured millions in funding to advance their respective projects in the blockchain space....
That Bored Ape you once flexed on Twitter? Congratulations, you just announced to the world what’s in your digital wallet. Is your wallet a snitch? Apparently, most are. We’re paying millions for JPEGs and then putting our whole collection on the internet for free, like a crypto peacock. It's all...
Aztec, a layer-2 rollup with an unusual and promising approach sharply oriented towards privacy, has just released its testnet. This event is a big step toward a future where decentralized applications (dApps) on Ethereum can provide rich, programmable privacy. The launch represents the culmination of over eight years of dedicated...
Aztec, a layer-2 rollup focused primarily on privacy, has released their testnet. This is a huge accomplishment after more than eight years of development. With its technical team from Disney Research, the firm’s launch moves its state-of-the-art technology closer to a mainnet release.Aztec is unique among the zero-knowledge rollup contenders...
Is DeFi about to undergo a major privacy transformation? Or are we just seeing the latest costly but ultimately impermissible crypto trial run? Aztec’s testnet launch has made quite a splash—and with good reason. The promise of something like on-chain encryption, where your transactions are no one’s else’ business but...