The Merge is set to be delayed by at least three months.

Solana Labs is dedicating a large part of its team to building its mobile effort, according to an exclusive interview with the company’s head of communications.

Ethereum developers are all about NFTs now, at least if the latest ETHNewYork is a good indication.

Despite government incentives, researchers from the University of Chicago found that only 4.9% of all sales in El Salvador are conducted in Bitcoin.

The Ethereum Foundation launched the Eth2 Beacon Chain on a public testnet yesterday, marking one of the final tests before Ethereum transitions to Proof-of-Stake later this year. The Beacon Chain, Eth2’s Proof-of-Stake consensus layer, went live on the longstanding public testnet, Ropsten.  The launch is a major milestone toward Ethereum’s highly anticipated ‘chain-merge’, which developers…

Ethereum developers foiled a “mischievous” miner’s attempt to expedite Ethereum’s transition to Proof-of-Stake on a public testnet by two weeks. Developers expect Ethereum’s Eth2 Beacon Chain to merge with Ethereum’s mainnet this autumn. The transition, known as “The Merge”, will change the chain to Proof-of-Stake consensus and abandon Proof-of-Work miners.  Ethereum’s developers want to trial…

Terra is forking its blockchain and ditching UST, the algorithmic stablecoin that collapsed in dramatic fashion two weeks ago. 

The Eth2 Beacon Chain’s validators fell out of step on May 25 after a client update boosted some clients but caused confusion among validators who hadn’t bothered to upgrade. The incident, called a blockchain reorganization, happens when nodes disagree on the order of the most recent block. Blockchains order blocks – batches of transactions –…

The Interplanetary File System (IPFS), a protocol for peer-to-peer file data sharing and storage,  is set to live up to its name through a partnership with Filecoin and U.S. space and weapons company Lockheed Martin.  Filecoin, which relies on IPFS, wants to store an IPFS node on one of Lockheed Martin’s spaceships. When the spaceship…

Ethereum scaling solution Optimism today announced Bedrock, an upgrade that improves speeds and cuts costs for those that trade on the L2. Optimism is a rollup: a Layer 2 scaling solution that batches transactions on another blockchain, then feeds them back to Ethereum as a single transaction. Rollups enjoy the security of Ethereum’s mainnet while…