Bessie Liu

Bessie Liu

Bessie is a Brooklyn-based reporter covering DeFi and technology. Bessie worked as a tech journalist for The Org prior to joining Blockworks and was a management consultant for KPMG in another life. She is originally from Melbourne, Australia and holds an MA from New York University. She is also the mother of a bratty cat named Mochi. You can reach Bessie at bessie@blockworks.co
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Espresso sequencing marketplace will enable efficient coordination and fast transaction finalization across multiple Ethereum layer-2s

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Miden will enable users to generate proof without revealing state to wider network

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A former mayor becomes latest Coinbase policy adviser, and the special counsel of a crypto venture firm leaves

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Coinbase’s Base welcomes the second iteration of its Onchain Summer, and NodeMonkes is now the most popular Bitcoin NFT

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Ex Revolut executive received $6.5 million from investors to create hybrid exchange x10

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Binius operates over binary code and is designed to store information using bits

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Runes protocol will bring versatility to Bitcoin, but some are worried about the increased fees

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Despite ordinal volume dipping following the Bitcoin halving due to high network fees, the latest Motoko Sentinel collection saw an increase in its trading volume

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Drive-to-earn DePIN project MapMetrics will slowly transition to the peaq blockchain

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Blockchain technology is being used to incentivize community building in the real world

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The vulnerability enabled exploiters to replay a bug that would enable an infinite number of IBC tokens to be redeemed

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The Nakamoto upgrade will enhance transaction throughput and enable Bitcoin finality for layer-2 transactions

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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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Users using Karak will be able to restake any asset on any chain, Karak founders explain

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Plus, a van Eck releases a stablecoin and Paradigm looks to raise another megafund

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Elsewhere, Binance appoints new board members and a highly-funded startup is hiring

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Plus, Doodles makes a movie and Dogecoin has a deep order book

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A third party accounting firm will audit these reserves and Ripple will publish monthly attestations

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Osmosis will serve as the primary destination for Ethereum assets in the Cosmos ecosystem

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Other Frax Finance tokens, including the Frax Price Index (FPI) and FraxEther (frxETH), are expected to be available at a later date.