Macauley Peterson
Senior Editor at Blockworks
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1 week ago |
blockworks.co | Macauley Peterson
Polygon Labs and GSR are teaming up on Katana. The new DeFi-optimized blockchain, set to launch next month, has a clear mission: Stop fragmenting liquidity and start redirecting value back to users. It's built on Polygon's new OP Stack-based cdk-opgeth framework, powered by Conduit's G2 sequencer, and uses zk finality via Succinct's SP1 prover. Good tech - but Katana's true innovation isn't technical, it's economic. This isn't another "chain for everything" play.
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1 week ago |
mail.blockworks.com | Ben Strack |Macauley Peterson |Katherine Ross |Jeffrey Albus
We hope you're enjoying your long weekend. Byron's probably on a beach somewhere sipping a La Croix, catching some rays and pondering macro things. But have no fear — the Forward Guidance crew is here, working hard to bring you some Memorial Day reading material. Don’t worry, Byron will be back tomorrow.
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1 week ago |
blockworks-research.beehiiv.com | Donovan Choy |Macauley Peterson
Crypto remains a paradox: wildly risky yet wildly efficient. Hyperliquid, Tether, and Pump[dot]fun generate staggering revenue with lean teams. DeFi undercuts banks on cost, but exploits like Cetus expose lingering fragility. And then there‚Äôs the curious case of ‚ÄúJames Wynn‚ÄĚ ‚ÄĒ a perps gambler surfing billion-dollar trades with improbable precision. ‚ÄĒ Macauley Maple Finance Protocol Revenue: Maple Finance is clocking in new monthly highs in revenues this month at $753m.
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2 weeks ago |
blockworks.co | Macauley Peterson
Sui's largest decentralized exchange, Cetus, was exploited on May 22 for over $220 million - the most severe DeFi incident in the network's short history. It raised difficult questions about validator power, decentralization and reactive governance. The attacker exploited faulty math in Cetus' smart contracts by using spoofed tokens and miscalculated liquidity ratios.
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2 weeks ago |
blockworks.co | Macauley Peterson
Today's launch of Circles v2 is a reassertion of crypto's community-first ideals. Originally launched in 2020 as an experiment in universal basic access (UBA) to currency, Circles is now back with a refined product, a stronger economic model and a renewed mission: to build a fairer alternative to centralized identity-driven distribution schemes like Worldcoin.
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