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Vishal Chawla

Vishal Chawla is The Block’s Crypto Ecosystems Editor who has spent over eight years covering technology. Vishal can be reached on X at @vishal4c and via email at [email protected]

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Base becomes largest Ethereum rollup by total value locked, surpassing Arbitrum

October 15, 2024, 5:56AM EDT

Crypto Ecosystems

$35 million worth of tokens drained from a crypto whale in phishing attack

October 11, 2024, 4:37AM EDT

Security

Liquid restaking and rollup platform Puffer introduces token along with community airdrop

October 10, 2024, 5:34AM EDT

Crypto Ecosystems

Optimism rolls out fifth airdrop, allocates 10.3 million OP tokens to 54,000 Superchain users

October 10, 2024, 12:14AM EDT

Layer 2s and Scaling

Linea proposes decentralization roadmap including proof-of-stake model for block validation

October 8, 2024, 1:58AM EDT

Crypto Ecosystems

Ethereum proposal ‘EIP-7781’ calls for slot time reduction from 12 to 8 seconds to boost transaction throughput

October 7, 2024, 2:25AM EDT

Crypto Ecosystems

Hyperliquid climbs to the top in daily trading volume among decentralized perpetual swaps

October 4, 2024, 2:54AM EDT

DeFi

Aerodrome tops $1 billion in deposits, dominating DeFi on Base

October 3, 2024, 1:06AM EDT

DeFi

Arbitrum One surpasses 1 billion transactions since 2021 launch

October 1, 2024, 2:50AM EDT

Crypto Ecosystems

EigenLayer token trades on exchanges at $7 billion FDV as transfer restrictions lift

October 1, 2024, 1:29AM EDT

Crypto Ecosystems