Developers
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EIP-7702 was quickly adopted for the next Ethereum upgrade, but developers haven’t quite locked it down
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In the world of decentralized infrastructure, it’s time to put much needed tools into the right hands and create a healthier open internet
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The Algorand Foundation touts the network as first to go after pool of 10 million global developers
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Bitcoin developers are looking at ways to grow the ecosystem amid a resurgence of interest in innovation and development
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Protocols built on Blast have accrued nearly $1 billion in TVL in the two weeks since the layer-2 went to mainnet
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NTT will enable developers to tailor their token transfers to meet the requirements of their projects while maintaining the inherited properties on each chain
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Elsewhere, Cowen’s crypto employees moved to StoneX and Nomura’s crypto custody firm CEO stepped down
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Blockworks exclusive: Sei takes another step toward offering users a parallelized EVM
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In hashing out the next hard fork after Dencun, developers commit to being noncommittal
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The EIP-4844 upgrade is alive and well on the Goerli testnet after a rough first few hours
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Despite their initial promise, public testnets are an insufficient and incomplete way to test dapps
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Developers working in crypto are down 25% from a year ago, but most of those were newcomers
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As Ethereum heads for the Dencun hard fork in Q1 2024, here are some of the eagerly anticipated EIPs coming up
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Like much of the tech world, crypto’s use of ChatGPT has been growing. Despite founder Sam Altman’s ouster, decentralized AI projects don’t seem ready to replace it
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Solana Labs will provide guidance around engineering, fundraising and go-to-market strategies
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Crypto developer numbers have risen 66% since the last bear market, but dipped over the past year, Electric Capital found
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These new tools mark the first steps towards Chainlink’s vision of creating a decentralized computing marketplace for developers
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Offchain Labs reveals testnet for Arbitrum Stylus, enabling multi-language coding for smart contract developers
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Even with continuing enthusiasm among developers, concerns about a lack of funding and awareness are still top of mind
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