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[ad_1] By Yuga Cohler, Staff Software Engineer at Coinbase The Merge is coming. The long-awaited transition of the Ethereum network’s consensus mechanism from Proof-of-Work (PoW) to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) is expected to arrive sometime this year. After the Merge, the already-running Beacon Chain will begin validating Ethereum mainnet’s blockchain through...

[ad_1] By Joe Lallouz, Head of Coinbase Cloud Coinbase Cloud is pleased to announce support of liquid staking through a collaboration with the Acala Foundation, starting with KSM liquid staking on Karura. Liquid staking lets token holders stake their tokens while still putting them to work in DeFi —...

[ad_1] By Michael Li, Vice President, Data at Coinbase Hackathons have been a long-standing and important part of Coinbase culture, as they give our engineering teams the opportunity to collaborate with one another and experiment directly with the tools that are enabling a new era of open finance. At...

[ad_1] By Heidi Wilder, Special Investigations Manager & Tammy Yang, Blockchain Researcher Part 1: What are Bridges? Bridge Basics, Facts, and Stats Illicit actors are often attracted to the newest forms of technology, and bridges are unfortunately no exception to that rule. Illicit actors are defined as individuals or...

[ad_1] Around the Block from Coinbase Ventures sheds light on key trends in crypto. Written by Connor Dempsey TLDR: Despite the market downturn, Q1 was another highly active quarter for crypto venture funding. On the infrastructure side, we’re seeing a ton of activity within cross-chain solutions and DAO tooling....

[ad_1] By Heidi Wilder, Special Investigations Manager & Tammy Yang, Blockchain Researcher Introduction Recent questions have been raised about how bridges and mixers work both for legitimate business purposes and illicit financial transactions. Although mixing services have been extensively analyzed for years, bridges are a newer concept that became...

[ad_1] By Faryar Shirzad, Chief Policy Officer The digital economy is permanently changing the nature of financial services globally and digital assets are at the center of much of this rapid change. This is something clearly understood by the UK Government. John Glen, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, used...

[ad_1] By George Liu and Matthew Turk In part one of this quant research piece, we introduce the decentralized finance (DeFi) collateralized lending platform known as Compound Finance and discuss its use case for stablecoins, in comparison to the notion of a “risk-free” interest rate from traditional finance (TradFi)....

[ad_1] Starting immediately and as part of an effort to increase transparency by providing as much information symmetry as possible, Coinbase will be using this blog post as a pilot to communicate assets under consideration for listing in Q2 2022 (April 1st, 2022 to June 30th, 2022). April 1...

[ad_1] Coinbase is reducing the number of confirmations required for several assets on the platform. We expect this change to both improve customer experience and security posture. What’s changed New confirmation requirements for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, and Ethereum Classic pursuant to the table below: Why we made these changes...