Almost one year to the day after Ethereum protocol EigenLayer launched its restaking network to unprecedented industry fanfare, the network is finally adding a core feature that was, until now, glari… [+4166 chars]

A year after its launch, the Ethereum restaking protocol is rolling out the critical accountability measure meant to address lingering security concerns.

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EigenLayer Adds Key ‘Slashing’ Feature, Completing Original Vision

Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk's weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. Were Margaux Nijkerk and Sam Kessler, reporters on CoinDesks Tech team.
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Plus: Ethereum developers privacy debate reignites, Optimum raises funds in seed round, Noble’s new ‘AppLayer’

The Protocol: Nvidia To Manufacture AI Supercomputers in U.S., New Opportunities for Crypto Miners

Noble, a blockchain for issuing real-world assets (RWA) and stablecoins, announced Wednesday that it will expand its platform by introducing AppLayer, an Ethereum-compatible rollup that allows develo… [+2521 chars]

The aim of Noble’s AppLayer is to let developers build new financial tools and apps with high throughput of stablecoins and reliable stablecoin infrastructure.

Noble’s New ‘AppLayer’ Lets Developers Build Stablecoin Tools on Celestia

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has been criticized this week for including privacy token Zcash (ZEC) among those cryptos up for a vote to be delisted from the exchange.
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Industry Heavyweights Weigh in on Binance's Potential Zcash delisting.coindesk.com

Industry Heavyweights Weigh in on Binance's Potential Zcash delisting.

Artificial Intelligence tokens have long-term staying power and won't be another crypto fad like non-fungible tokens (NFTs), even though the industry has already seen its share of flops, Kava Labs co… [+3552 chars]

Kava's co-founder explains why the DeFi-to-AI pivot helped it beat the market, while other AI tokens have flopped.

Kava Labs' Scott Stuart: Decentralized AI Delivers Real Value, Not NFT Style-Hype

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Fear is gripping financial markets, triggered largely by President Donald Trump's tariff announcements, with Hong Kong stocks plunging … [+10393 chars]

Crypto Daybook Americas: XRP, SOL Lead Drop as Bitcoin, Equities Slide in Tariff-Fueled Wipeout

The Cosmos network consists of many independent, parallel blockchains, called zones, each powered by classical Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols like Tendermint (already used by platforms like ErisDB). Some zones act as hubs with respect to other zones, allowing many zones to interoperate through a shared hub. The architecture is a more general application of the Bitcoin sidechains concept, using classic BFT and Proof-of-Stake algorithms, instead of Proof-of-Work.Cosmos can interoperate with multiple other applications and cryptocurrencies, something other blockchains can’t do well. By creating a new zone, you can plug any blockchain system into the Cosmos hub and pass tokens back and forth between those zones, without the need for an intermediary.For example, if you wanted to trade bitcoins for ether today, you would have to sell your bitcoins for a fiat currency on an open exchange and then use that fiat currency to buy ether on another exchange. The problem is, many of our exchanges today are plagued by hacks, theft, and cons. Two prime examples are what happened at Mt. Gox and more recently Bitfinex.