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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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Venus Protocol liquidates $30 million in wallet linked to BNB Chain bridge hack

August 18, 2023, 11:39AM EDT

Bridges

Exactly Protocol exploited for over $7 million on Optimism Layer 2 network: BlockSec

August 18, 2023, 6:26AM EDT

Security

Crypto traders hit by $1.04 billion in liquidations amid intense market volatility

August 18, 2023, 4:49AM EDT

Markets

Connext to airdrop native token 'Next' in early September

August 17, 2023, 11:00AM EDT

Companies

Sei price drops 31% as users start claiming airdrop

August 17, 2023, 7:42AM EDT

Crypto Ecosystems

Mantle Network crosses $40 million in TVL within a month of launch

August 16, 2023, 9:57AM EDT

Crypto Ecosystems

SwirlLend disappears with $460K in apparent exit scam on Base and Linea

August 16, 2023, 5:20AM EDT

Crypto Ecosystems

Hacker creates memecoin after stealing $870,000 from RocketSwap on Base

August 16, 2023, 12:14AM EDT

Crypto Ecosystems

Sei blockchain's native asset set to go live for trading tomorrow

August 14, 2023, 1:31PM EDT

Crypto Ecosystems

Base is 'permissionless,' says Coinbase's Jesse Pollak

August 14, 2023, 7:38AM EDT

Layer 2s and Scaling