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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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Ethereum developers activate Pectra upgrade with 11 changes to improve UX, validator ops and Layer 2 scaling

May 7, 2025, 6:06AM EDT

Layer 1s

Trish Turner takes over IRS crypto unit as two former leaders depart: Bloomberg Tax

May 6, 2025, 3:59AM EDT

Policy

Tether CEO says the firm's AI product will enable peer-to-peer network of AI agents

May 5, 2025, 4:36AM EDT

Companies

Base reaches 'stage 1' in Ethereum rollup decentralization with fault proofs and security council

April 29, 2025, 12:00PM EDT

Layer 2s and Scaling

Interchain Foundation backs Stride to build IBC-native DEX on Cosmos Hub

April 29, 2025, 9:19AM EDT

Crypto Ecosystems

Ethereum researcher proposes 100-fold 'exponential' gas limit boost to improve mainnet scaling

April 28, 2025, 5:06AM EDT

Layer 1s

North Korean hackers created fake US companies to target crypto developers: report

April 25, 2025, 2:26AM EDT

Companies

Clanker team earns $13 million in revenue from over 200,000 tokens on Base in just five months

April 4, 2025, 2:15AM EDT

Startups

Ethereum developers aim for May 7 mainnet deployment of Pectra upgrade

April 4, 2025, 1:03AM EDT

Crypto Ecosystems

Cosmos devs test IBC protocol between Hub and Ethereum to boost interoperability

March 27, 2025, 4:00AM EDT

Layer 1s