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Crypto for Advisors: What Will Trigger Crypto Mass Adoption?
Andy Baehr, managing director of CoinDesk Indices, discusses scenarios that could be the drivers of mass adoption in crypto.

Polygon Proposes Council for ‘Decentralized Governance,’ Names 13 Members
The committee will consist of 13 people including officials from Coinbase and the Ethereum Foundation.

Cracks Appear as Ethereum Staking Demand Wanes
Earlier this year, Ethereum staking was popular, particularly with Lido Finance's rise to prominence in the DeFi space, but it is now facing challenges, suspicions, and resentment.

Lightning Labs Rolls Out 'Taproot Assets,' to Make Bitcoin 'Multi-Asset' Network
Taproot Assets will give developers "the tools needed to make Bitcoin a multi-asset network, but in a scalable manner," according to Lightning Labs.

Stellar, Early Blockchain Built for Payments, Adds Smart Contracts to Take on Ethereum
The nine-year-old project, one of the earliest major blockchains, is getting a facelift to incorporate "smart contracts," which theoretically could attract new applications and users – and potentially more demand for the XLM token.

Scroll Confirms Mainnet Live, as Co-Founder Predicts Speed Gains Over Ethereum
Blockchain data showed that Scroll’s smart contract was deployed on Oct. 8, but the team held off making its official announcement until this week.

Bitcoin Magazine Owner Backs First Ordinals Fund, Which Bought $85K Rock
The "Unbroken Chain" fund, as it is known, plans to raise $5 million from its limited partners and will trade in various Ordinals types, including BRC-20 tokens – sometimes positioned as NFTs on Bitcoin. Already the new group has bought an image of a rock for about $85,000.

La cadena de bloques Layer-2 de Manta ya planea deshacerse de la pila OP para Polygon
La red, que se puso en funcionamiento hace un par de semanas como un llamado paquete acumulativo optimista (el fundamento Core de OP Stack) ahora se convertirá en un "paquete acumulativo ZK", que es lo que proporciona el kit de software de Polygon.

Manta's Layer-2 Blockchain Already Plans to Ditch OP Stack for Polygon
The network, which just went live a couple weeks ago as a so-called optimistic rollup – the core underpinning of OP Stack – will now become a “ZK-rollup,” which is what Polygon’s software kit provides.

O blockchain da camada 2 da Manta já planeja abandonar a pilha OP para o Polygon
A rede, que entrou no ar há algumas semanas como um chamado rollup otimista – a base Core do OP Stack – agora se tornará um “rollup ZK”, que é o que o kit de software da Polygon fornece.
