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Most discussed
DBA analyzes Ethereum's North Star (8 comments)
Vitalik says what he would love to see in a wallet (6 comments)
Sassal discusses the bull market (4 comments)
News
Trump nominates crypto advocate Paul Atkins as SEC chair
David Sacks will be the AI and Crypto Czar
Supply chain attack detected in Solana's web3.js library
RTFKT winds down operations
US officials recommend encrypted messaging to evade hackers in telecom networks
Essays, Posts & Talks
100y.eth analyzes if MicroStrategy is the next FTX
Juliettech explains the Crypto DevRel Trap
Tpan says that crypto is stocks but better
Auditless explains why he writes weekly (about crypto)
Coco Kee says that China is watching blockchain...and it doesn't want to lose
Cap writes about scaling ENS to a billion and beyond
Ev shares his musings on the future of actually Smart Wallets
Tim Daub explains Why $kiwimas?
Justin Ahn says that "the farcaster economy is circular, we all just continuously rug each other"
Joshua Citarella shows the difference between the Manosphere and Zynternet
LGHT writes about the software spirituality
Devcon team shares the latest chapter for Ethereum & highlights from Devcon
Taylor Lorenz says why "we" want insurance executives dead
Tomu describes programmable social
Devconflict contest submissions
Profkaterina shares her experiences with liquid and vanilla staking
Mariano analyzes the Protocol Ossification vs Agility problem
Daniel McGlynn describes the fallacy of "onboarding the next billion users"
Mac Budkowski says that you shouldn't try to onboard the next billion users to Ethereum
Dashboards & reports
Dashboard: Bitcoin Layers
Dashboard: Stablecoins market map
Dashboard: SentientMarketCap
Dashboard: Bitcoin Mining by Country 2024
Dashboard: Fiat Market Capitalizations
Dashboard: $KIWIMAS
Dashboard: Infinite Market Cap
Dashboard: Blobs are driving millions in fees for Ethereum
Report: A few of the things a16z is excited about in crypto (2025)
Products
Found: GMGN Wallet
Found: FluidKey and Stealth Addresses
Found: Chainlist - a list of EVM networks
Launch: SafeNet
Update: Gnosis Pya integrates Google Pay
Trailer: Dia by The Browser Company
For devs
Tornado Cash: a reference manual for developers
10 papers that shaped modern zero-knowledge proofs
Farcaster moving to total ordering
EF launches the ETH Rangers Program
Art
Banana company artwashes its bloody legacy at Art Basel Miami
Botto: Art at the Intersection of AI and token networks
WMP shares the onchain NFTs collector's guide
Gokhan says that onchain art does not exist
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