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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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Coinbase's wrapped XRP and DOGE tokens go live on Base

June 5, 2025, 2:24AM EDT

Companies

Ethereum validators begin signaling another gas limit boost

May 27, 2025, 3:46AM EDT

Crypto Ecosystems

Synthetix and Derive call off $27 million merger proposal

May 26, 2025, 1:49AM EDT

DeFi

Brave becomes first major web browser to introduce its own onchain domain

May 21, 2025, 2:54AM EDT

Tech

Paradigm-backed Succinct to launch PROVE token as native asset for ZK prover network

May 20, 2025, 2:46AM EDT

Tech

Smart wallet adoption surges with over 11,000 EIP-7702 authorizations on Ethereum within a week of Pectra upgrade

May 15, 2025, 3:21AM EDT

Layer 1s

Synthetix proposes $27 million token swap to acquire options protocol Derive

May 14, 2025, 2:27AM EDT

DeFi

Pump.Fun’s DEX PumpSwap introduces revenue-sharing for token creators

May 13, 2025, 2:42AM EDT

DeFi

Unichain surpasses Ethereum as top chain for Uniswap v4 by transaction volume

May 9, 2025, 1:50AM EDT

DeFi

Flare Network's total value locked surges 160% since USDT0 rollout, surpassing $120 million

May 8, 2025, 2:49AM EDT

Layer 1s