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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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Aave founder confirms new token will not be created, citing DAO consensus on Horizon proposal

March 17, 2025, 2:17AM EDT

Governance

ZKsync sunsets ‘Ignite’ token rewards for DeFi ecosystem, cites market conditions and focus on Elastic Network

March 14, 2025, 4:29AM EDT

Layer 2s and Scaling

Aave targets institutions with real-world assets in new 'Horizon' initiative

March 13, 2025, 10:00AM EDT

DeFi

Bankr bot ends Grok's unintentional token creation spree by disabling interactions on X

March 13, 2025, 3:06AM EDT

Tech

StarkWare establishes BTC reserve amid vision for Starknet to unify Bitcoin and Ethereum

March 11, 2025, 10:00AM EDT

Crypto Ecosystems

Ethereum’s Holesky testnet regains finality after weeks of disruption amid Pectra testing

March 11, 2025, 3:04AM EDT

Companies

Offchain Labs plans to buy ARB tokens over time through a ‘strategic purchase plan’

March 11, 2025, 1:39AM EDT

Companies

Utah scraps bitcoin reserve provision before advancing state’s crypto bill

March 10, 2025, 2:49AM EDT

Policy

Base acquires team at PoW blockchain Iron Fish to develop 'privacy-preserving primitives'

March 7, 2025, 2:48AM EST

Companies

Solana validators to soon vote on key 'SIMD-228' proposal affecting network inflation

March 6, 2025, 11:19PM EST

Layer 1s