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Protocol Village: Alchemy Launches 'Pipelines' to Streamline How Blockchain Engineers Extract Data

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of April 18-24.

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

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The Protocol: Bitcoin Halving Spectacular, With Runes, 'Epic Sat,' Stacks Nakamoto

Unlike the last Bitcoin halving, a ho-hum affair where Covid-locked-down gawkers had little choice but to tune into livestreamed watch parties, the upcoming Bitcoin halving comes with project launches, competitions and IRL celebrations in Denver and Costa Rica.

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Protocol Village: Lido Launches 'Simple DVT Module' With Distributed Validator Technology

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of April 11-17.

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

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The Protocol: How to Engineer Harder Money, or Just Make Your Own

Bitcoin's supply growth is set to automatically drop by 50% when next week's "halving" arrives, Ethereum is pondering a cut in ETH issuance, and meme coin issuers are just no-holds-barred spinning up new ones. Blockchain tech is enabling all sorts of monetary strategies.

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Protocol Village: Nomic Unveils Bitcoin Liquid Staking Token 'stBTC' Using Babylon Technology

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of April 4-10.

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

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Protocol Village: Cosmos-Based Picasso Network Claims to Enable First IBC-Ethereum Connection

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of March 28-April 3.

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

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The Protocol: Using the Money Printer

If you have the money printer – as is the case for many of the blockchain projects with the power to create their own digital tokens – why wouldn't you use it? PLUS: Vitalik Buterin riffs on meme coin and Ethereum's new "blob market."

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