Macauley Peterson

Macauley Peterson

Macauley was an editor and content creator in the professional chess world for 14 years, prior to joining Blockworks. At Bucerius Law School (Master in Law and Business, 2020) he researched stablecoins, decentralized finance and central bank digital currencies. He also holds an MA in Film Studies; film credits include Associate Producer of the 2016 Netflix feature documentary, "Magnus" about World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen. He is based in Germany. Contact Macauley via email at macauley@blockworks.co or on Twitter @yeluacaM

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“No matter how bad this bear market gets, we are well positioned to grow our team,” Steve Newcomb CPO at Matter Labs says

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Why would FTX let a little thing like bankruptcy stop hundreds of millions of dollars in spot bitcoin and derivatives trade?

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Traders question what the utility of the FTT token will be with Binance in charge

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Magnus Granath, better known as Hodlonaut, sued the self-proclaimed ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ and won

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Following a claim of responsibility, debates rage on Twitter as to the ethics and legality of the endeavor

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“Crypto will become an important part of how customers transact,” says Suresh Kumar, the CTO of Walmart

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Polygon announces its zkEVM’s public testnet is live; Matter Labs zkSync mainnet is expected within weeks

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The veteran top-10 crypto has been chugging along since 2017, but with little adoption to show for it

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The SEC has charged Kim Kardashian for “unlawfully touting” obscure EthereumMax token

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What to watch when gauging the veracity of the “ultrasound money” thesis

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The last pre-Merge block became pricey blockchain real estate

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Watch Livestream | Despite being described by many as “one of the biggest events in crypto history,” if the Ethereum Merge goes to plan, you won’t even notice

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CEO Sam Bankman-Fried responded: “the website did wonky auto-refreshing for a lot of people”

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Two memes, one silly and sweet, one serious and consequential. After the Merge, will ether become deflationary?

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The final pre-Merge clients rolled out this week as the Ethereum community prepares for proof-of-stake liftoff

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The Terra founder alleges a TFL mole fed info to short sellers in Coinage interview, but he wants to put that behind him

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‘AMLA,’ a brand new regulator, will monitor crypto businesses in the European Union considered a risk for money laundering

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The Terraform Labs CEO gives first interview to Coinage, discusses Terra failure

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“The hacker kept on sending the funds to Binance in different ways, thinking we can’t catch it,” CEO Changpeng Zhao said

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Many projects have forked Ethereum, but few try to bring its full history along for the ride, and for good reason

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DAOs should be more democratic, less plutocratic, says Gitcoin co-founder

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The technology will reduce transaction costs and greatly increase throughput on a layer-2 rollup which inherits the security of Ethereum, the Polygon team says

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The CeFi company sent over $500 million to be managed by a prominent DeFi “whale” known as “0xB1”, before relations went sour in 2021

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Blockworks exclusive: The oracle — known as “Orion” — will help Cosmos chains hunt down accurate pricing over inter-blockchain communication