Bessie Liu

Bessie Liu

Bessie is a Brooklyn-based reporter covering DeFi and technology. Bessie worked as a tech journalist for The Org prior to joining Blockworks and was a management consultant for KPMG in another life. She is originally from Melbourne, Australia and holds an MA from New York University. She is also the mother of a bratty cat named Mochi. You can reach Bessie at bessie@blockworks.co

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A third party accounting firm will audit these reserves and Ripple will publish monthly attestations

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Osmosis will serve as the primary destination for Ethereum assets in the Cosmos ecosystem

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Other Frax Finance tokens, including the Frax Price Index (FPI) and FraxEther (frxETH), are expected to be available at a later date.

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DEGEN chain is designed to enable developers to tap into a popular memecoin community

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FHE coprocessors will be focused on enabling computing over encrypted data

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It will be at least another 10 years before newly minted BTC becomes small incentives for miners

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New DAI markets include USDe/DAI and sUSDe/DAI

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Bitcoin will likely grow to rely on its layer-2 infrastructure for most post-halving transactions this year, experts say

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A greater focus on data availability sampling is top of mind, including additional work that layer-2s must do to become faster and more secure

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The DAO first voted on enabling SAFE transfers over a year ago

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At launch, Chain Signatures will be compatible with Bitcoin, Ethereum and Cosmos network chains, as well as DogeCoin and XRP Ledger

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Solana developers can natively swap USDC tokens from Ethereum and other ecosystems

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Civic’s physical ID card system will be layered with the Civic Pass, a non-transferable identity token

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Guardian Council participants include the Solana Foundation, Everstake, Triton One, Juicy Stake and Kiln

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ORA’s OAOs are powered through optimistic machine learning (opML) on Ethereum

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StaFi’s latest testnet launch is the first step in its grand rebrand strategy to become a liquid staking service provider

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There needs to be more solo stakers on Ethereum today; could Rainbow Staking be the solution?

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The funding round was led by a16z crypto, and will be used by the team to continue product development and team scaling

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Fault proofs are a critical security measure to ensure transactions are valid on optimistic rollups

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The fund has already secured $30 million from various investors in the Web3 space

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A total of $5 million will be doled out over a 90-day period — and possibly longer

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Japan’s government pension fund will explore investments in “illiquidity assets,” including forests, farmland, gold and bitcoin

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A signaling post will go live on March 19 and conclude on March 23

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97.5% of swappers with trades under $125,000 did better on layer-2s than on Ethereum mainnet