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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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Solana's daily fees hit record high of $33 million as Trump family memecoins boost network volume

January 20, 2025, 5:39AM EST

Markets

Ethereum developers aim for Pectra mainnet upgrade in Q2

January 17, 2025, 5:39AM EST

Layer 1s

Merit Systems raises $10 million in round co-led by a16z crypto and Blockchain Capital

January 17, 2025, 3:17AM EST

Venture Capital

30% of Ethereum validators signal higher block gas limit, data shows

January 16, 2025, 5:45AM EST

Layer 1s

Pyth launches new oracle ‘Lazer’ to offer price feeds to latency-sensitive apps

January 16, 2025, 12:57AM EST

Crypto Ecosystems

Sony's Soneium blockchain faces backlash over alleged blacklisting of memecoins on launch day

January 14, 2025, 3:50AM EST

Crypto Ecosystems

AI agent tokens reel from a steep market correction

January 13, 2025, 1:56AM EST

The Block

Synthetix sunsets v3 perps on Arbitrum to focus solely on Base

January 10, 2025, 2:34AM EST

Crypto Ecosystems

Arbitrum DAO opens vote on proposal to implement BoLD protocol on ecosystem chains

January 10, 2025, 12:39AM EST

The Block

Polkadot-based Phala Network launches Ethereum Layer 2 rollup

January 9, 2025, 2:19AM EST

Crypto Ecosystems