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Matter Labs CEO Alex Gluchowski told CoinDesk in an interview that fragmentation among layer-2 networks is the next big challenge the blockchain space needs to tackle.

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Aug. 22-28.

Simple “engagement” isn’t enough. Banks need to start experimenting with tokenization and blockchain-powered settlement, or risk getting left behind, says Sygnum Bank’s Lucas...

The group is opening a battleground-states tour with Sen. Sinema in Arizona, then it moves on to Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania to get out the crypto vote.

While BTC and Ethereum have made strong comebacks in the last year, much of the rest of the market is still catching up, say Kevin Kelly and Jason Pagoulatos, of Delphi Digita...

Keyboard Cat creator Charlie Schmidt recently united two meme coins under the same banner: a licensing agreement for leveraging the likeness of his famous musical cat. The artist posted a 54-second clip of his cat Fatso playing the piano online 17 years ago. Since then, the video has become enshrined in internet culture, netting 77 million YouTube views and inspiring meme coins on Solana and Coinbase's Ethereum layer-2 network Base. There used to be a sense of confrontation between the two commu...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has been an outspoken and strenuous advocate for Bitcoin. While he has long battled with critics, he has now admitted that his Bitcoin experiment has not gone exactly as planned. In an interview with TIME magazine published Thursday, the “world’s coolest dictator”—as Bukele once described himself—conceded that more people in the tiny Central American country could be using the cryptocurrency.  “Bitcoin hasn't had the widespread adoption we hoped for,” he said,...