The Department of Energy’s statistics wing is feigning an “emergency” to attack legitimate U.S. businesses and score political points, Texas Blockchain Council President Lee Bratcher and Chamber of Digital Commerce CEO Perianne Boring write.Source
Cairo, which the StarkWare and the Herodotus developer team worked on together, is a key piece of technology that verifies proofs and posts them back to the layer-2 blockchain, instead of Ethereum’s mainnet.Source
The announcement means that existing EVM chains or optimistic rollups can connect to the prover without modification, then plug into Polygon’s newly released Aggregation layer, providing access to “all of the liquidity and value on Ethereum itself,” Polygon said.Source
The recently launched spot bitcoin ETFs, excluding Grayscale’s GBTC, added nearly another 5,000 tokens to their holdings yesterday, and now at more than 192,000 BTC, hold more of the crypto than MicroStrategy (MSTR), whose total stood at 190,000 as of the end of January.Source
A practical, unbiased, and proven approach could classify bitcoin as another building block in institutional investors’ portfolios.Source
Bitcoin targets $48,000 in the short term fueled by a strong historic track record around the Chinese New Year, 10X Research’s Markus Thielen said.Source
The cryptocurrency last traded above $45,000 on Jan 11.Source
The timing for the long-awaited Dencun upgrade, with its much-touted “proto-danksharding” feature, was announced Thursday on a call with top developers for the Ethereum blockchain.Source
The appeal is a minor victory for Kwon, who initially won an appeal in November only for it to be subsequently overturned.Source