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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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Here are the three biggest crypto stories of the past week

August 27, 2022, 7:48AM EDT

Cryptocurrency

Sky Mavis’ Ronin sidechain expands to 17 validators to boost security

August 17, 2022, 3:58PM EDT

Hacks

Acala recovers 2.97 billion of aUSD stablecoin minted during exploit

August 17, 2022, 12:59PM EDT

DeFi

ETHPoW team says its miner-led Ethereum fork is 'inevitable'

August 12, 2022, 10:07AM EDT

Technology

Binance seizes $450,000 stolen in Curve's front-end hack

August 12, 2022, 4:55AM EDT

DeFi

dYdX confirms blocking user accounts tied to Tornado Cash

August 11, 2022, 3:10AM EDT

DeFi

Ethereum's final proof-of-stake 'test merge' is live on Goerli

August 10, 2022, 9:54PM EDT

The Merge

Fixed Float seizes $200,000 of ether from the Curve hack

August 10, 2022, 9:38AM EDT

DeFi

Solana wallet provider Phantom says its systems were uncompromised in $4 million hack

August 10, 2022, 7:27AM EDT

Technology

Tron DAO Reserve gives Wintermute the right to mint and burn USDD

August 9, 2022, 9:10AM EDT

DeFi