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Bitcoin Learns Some New Tricks: Emerging Effects of Taproot

Defying Ossification; The UX Risks of Gasless Transactions

Jun 17

Zero Privacy—Zero Security; Intro to SUAVE | The DeFi Download

Privacy Chains; Flashbots' SUAVE Network

May 18 •

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Zero to One Knowledge: Comparing zkSync's Era and Polygon's zkEVM

How do ZKEVMs work? What are the different proving mechanisms? What is the outlook for the two earliest ZKEVMs on the market?

Apr 20 •

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The $ARB Arbitrum Airdrop; Euler Finance Hack

What's going on with the Arbitrum Airdrop Drama; Euler hacker returns stolen funds

Apr 7

Silicon Valley Bank and DeFi; The Rise of GMX

The Fall of Silicon Valley Bank; DeFi has a "Come to Jesus" Moment; The Rise of GMX; The Wormhole hacker gets Jumped

Mar 23

The Shanghai Edition

Shanghai, Capella — Shapella; EIP Account Abstraction; EIP-4895

Mar 10

The MEV Edition (part III)

The Scourge; Inclusion Lists; MEV Burn; and the Health of the MEV-Boost Ecosystem

Feb 24

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