Plan to Boost ETH Rewards Released
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- Plan to Boost ETH Staking Rewards May Grow $152B Sector
- Coinbase Jumps Into Ethereum Scaling Race With New Rollup
- Polygon Lays Off 20% of Staff Amid Restructuring
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Ethereum Staking
Plan to Boost ETH Staking Rewards May Grow $152B Sector
EigenLayer Releases Details of Staking Changes in Growing PoS Space
By Samuel Haig
In recent years, staking has quietly emerged as a wellspring of profit for the DeFi community. With more than $152B worth of crypto assets locked up to secure Proof of Stake networks, it’s attracting institutional and retail investors alike by offering new ways to earn returns from digital assets.
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Crypto Exchanges
Coinbase Jumps Into Ethereum Scaling Race With New Rollup
Exchange Giant Challenges Arbitrum and Other Layer 2s With Own Blockchain
Coinbase, the No. 1 crypto exchange in the U.S., is building a new Layer 2 blockchain to give its users easy access to faster and cheaper transactions on Ethereum, the company said Thursday.
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Crypto Reorgs
Polygon Lays Off 20% of Staff Amid Restructuring
Layer 2’s MATIC Token has Soared 38% in Last 30 Days
A year after Polygon Labs raised $450M to expand its web3 strategy, the Layer 2 provider is reducing its headcount by a fifth and will lay off 100 employees, the company said Wednesday.
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Opinion
Crypto Regulation
Crypto Makes Its Peace with New EU Law, But What Does It Do?
Here’s How MiCA is Changing the Rules of the Road for Tokens, Stablecoins, and NFTs
The European Council is set to approve and implement the highly-anticipated Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) law. Expected to come into force in early 2024, this is one of the first acts to bring crypto assets, issuers, and crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) under one regulatory framework.
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