Governance
Censorship
Could Gitcoin Grants address be under sanctions from the U.S. amid Tornado Cash saga?
A smart contract written by Martin Köppelmann, Co-founder of Gnosis has revealed evidence of miner censorship on the Ethereum blockchain.
People
Alameda Research Co-CEO quits crypto in pursuit of “happiness”
Sam Trabucco announced he will step down as Co-CEO of Alameda to focus on "traveling, visiting friends and family, working on "myself" and whatnot"
Legal
Celsius sues KeyFi, alleges Jason Stone stole over 1,000 ETH of investor funds for NFTs
Celsius hits back at Jason Stone claiming he used client funds to buy CryptoPunks while losing 30,000 ETH in a bad DeFi trade.
Censorship
SWIFT considered ‘neutral’ on sanctions; debate sparked on whether Ethereum is the same
Global payment messaging service SWIFT claims to be "neutral" regarding sanctions. Can Ethereum make the same claim?
Hacks
NEAR Rainbow Bridge defends weekend attack costing hacker 5 ETH
NEAR/ETH bridge defended an attack in 31 seconds over the weekend that resulted in the attacker losing funds and no loss of user funds.
Research
Research: Will reducing US inflation from 8.3% to 2% compare to Bitcoin and Ethereum?
U.S. inflation rates have yet to fall but Ethereum will drop its inflation massively in September, while Bitcoin's inflation is baked into the code — how do these compare to a 2% FED inflation target?
Adoption
ByBit report claims Solana had strong network growth in Q2 on the back of GameFi, DAOs
Headline price figures do not necessarily tell the full story when it comes to network scaling. Is Solana seeing stealth growth amid a 46% drop against BTC?
Censorship
Largest Ethereum miner, Ethermine, stops processing sanctioned transactions
Ethermine is no longer processing blocks that include Tornado Cash transactions creating censorship at a protocol level
Censorship
Aztec responds to claims FTX froze user funds for interacting with the protocol
Also documented by Wu Blockchain, the accusations of FTX users having their accounts frozen came from a series of tweets from a handful of accounts.
Insurance
FTX backtracks on FDIC insurance but fails to delete all references
FTX President Brett Harrison deleted a tweet referencing FDIC insurance yet missed another reference as SBF gets involved
Privacy
Godfather of Crypto expresses concerns over current state of blockchain privacy
David Chaum has been working with cryptography longer than anyone in our industry and he is not happy with the state of privacy in blockchain
Merge
September 14 may be the biggest day in the history of the internet
The day Ethereum merges to proof-of-sake may be the most important moment for the future of the internet
