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The Protocol: Bitcoin Cry for Help Heard

It may seem perplexing to the corporate mindset that bitcoin's price surged this week to a new all-time high above the old record around $69,000, even as the dominant Bitcoin Core software used to run the blockchain remains dependent on a group of volunteers. But there may be help on the way.

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Protocol Village: AI-Enabled Prediction Market PredX Launches Testnet on Sei Chain

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Feb. 29-March 6.

Scene from Protocol Village at Consensus 2023 in Austin, Texas.

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Protocol Village: Fleek Network Claims Faster Edge Computing Than AWS, Vercel

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Feb. 22-28.

Scene from Protocol Village at Consensus 2023 in Austin, Texas.

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The Protocol: Bitcoin's Call for Volunteers, Ethena's USDe, Blast's Blast-Off

In this week's issue of CoinDesk's newsletter on blockchain technology, we've got an exclusive interview with Stacks co-creator Muneeb Ali. PLUS: More than $200 million of blockchain project fundraisings.

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Protocol Village: Fuel Labs Evolves Into 'Rollup OS,' With Multiple Native Assets, Combating State Bloat

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Feb. 15-21.

Scene from Protocol Village at Consensus 2023 in Austin, Texas.

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The Protocol: Restaking Tokens Are Exploding, and Restaking Isn't Even Live

In this week's issue of our weekly blockchain tech newsletter, Sam Kessler explores how "liquid restaking tokens" or LRTs are remaking decentralized finance. PLUS: Starknet's STRK airdrop, Stellar's smart-contract facelift and bitcoin's supply crunch.

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The Protocol: Bitcoin's OP_CAT, Fake Ethereum Tokens, Starknet's Airdrop

CoinDesk's Jamie Crawley takes a look at the suddenly-high-profile proposal to revive Bitcoin's historic "OP_CAT" function as a way of enabling more development on the oldest blockchain. PLUS: the unofficial "ERC-404" tokens driving up fees on Ethereum and highlights from our Protocol Village column over the past week.

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