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Solana's Best Month Since 2024 Lands on a Historic Governance Vote
SOL is up 44% in August and back above $105. Validators are deciding whether the network prints less and burns more.
Core Lightning Asked Operators to Trust It for 14 Days
Bitcoin's premise is that you verify rather than trust. A live security incident does not allow it.
CoinShares' 25% Buyback Authority Might Recycle Shares to Employees Rather Than Shrink Supply
The asset manager's September 15 EGM pairs a big repurchase authorization with treasury-share powers and an employee equity plan — read together, the math changes.
On-Chain Governance Is Dying, and Its Practitioners Know It
Voter participation is falling. Delegates are consolidating. Protocol decisions are quietly moving to Discord working groups. The theater remains; the substance has migrated elsewhere.
DeFi's Users and Token Holders Want Different Things, and It's Breaking the Model
Protocol usage is at record highs. Token prices are stuck. The two groups of stakeholders have preferences that increasingly point in opposite directions — and the governance architecture assumes they're the same people.
Uniswap Foundation Grant Sale Mandates KYC, Drawing Pushback From Crypto-Native Wallets
The Foundation's $25M grant program token sale requires full KYC for participants. Several prominent cypherpunk-leaning commentators have called the decision a capitulation.