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All Zest blog posts about infrastructure.

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Ethereum Institutional: Wall Street's New Front Door

A new Ethereum nonprofit funded by treasury firms BitMine and SharpLink — not the Ethereum Foundation — now leads institutional outreach.

Jul 5, 2026Read more

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Nasdaq Joins Pyth Network to Put Market Data On-Chain

Nasdaq now distributes its TotalView order book data through Pyth, the first time a major exchange has put proprietary data on-chain this way.

Jul 1, 2026Read more

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Ethereum Foundation Cuts 54 Jobs and Restructures Into 5 Clusters

The Ethereum Foundation eliminated 54 positions and cut its budget 40% on June 23. Here's what the new five-cluster model means for protocol development.

Jun 24, 2026Read more

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Cardano Van Rossem Hard Fork: Protocol V11 Explained

Cardano's first community-voted hard fork ships cheaper Plutus execution, BLS12-381 ZK primitives, and hands protocol control to DReps and SPOs.

Jun 22, 2026Read more

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Ethereum Core Dev Funding Crisis: What a $30M Gap Means

The Client Incentive Program expired in April, eight senior leaders have left, and a $30M annual gap now threatens 10+ core dev teams.

Jun 20, 2026Read more

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NEAR's Dynamic Resharding: How the Network Scales Itself

NEAR's v2.13 upgrade ships shards that split automatically when they fill up — no governance vote, no coordinator. Here's how it works and what it changes.

Jun 17, 2026Read more

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Fidelity Deploys FIDD Stablecoin on Uniswap and Curve

Fidelity routed FIDD through Uniswap V3 and Curve Finance — the first TradFi giant to use permissionless DeFi as its primary stablecoin liquidity layer.

Jun 12, 2026Read more

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Circle Launches cirBTC: A New Wrapped Bitcoin for DeFi

Circle's cirBTC goes live on Ethereum with 1:1 BTC backing and Chainlink Proof of Reserve. How it compares to WBTC and what it means for BTC holders.

Jun 9, 2026Read more

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Solana Alpenglow: 100ms Finality and 75% More Block Space

Alpenglow replaces Solana's consensus with 100–150ms finality and frees 75% of block space. Here's what changes for swap users and DeFi on Solana.

Jun 7, 2026Read more

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Ethereum's Glamsterdam Upgrade: What It Means for Your Gas Costs

Glamsterdam targets roughly 3x L1 capacity and 10x throughput on Ethereum. Here's what the three core EIPs change and what it means for swap costs.

Jun 5, 2026Read more

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Why Hyperliquid (HYPE) Is Becoming One of the Most Important Blockchain Projects in Crypto

Learn why Hyperliquid, the HYPE token, HyperEVM, and on-chain perpetual futures are becoming central to DeFi and crypto trading in 2026.

Jun 2, 2026Read more