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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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Maestro Telegram bot suffers a contract exploit: $500,000 of ETH stolen

October 25, 2023, 5:15AM EDT

Crypto Ecosystems

DYdX Trading ships open-source code for version 4 of its Cosmos-based DEX

October 24, 2023, 8:37AM EDT

Crypto Ecosystems

Developer exposed potential security issue on the Lightning Network

October 23, 2023, 1:38AM EDT

Crypto Ecosystems

Gnosis Chain's total value locked doubles to $150 million after MakerDAO's Spark Protocol expansion

October 20, 2023, 4:03PM EDT

Crypto Ecosystems

Pair of Reddit mods appear to have sold off tokens ahead of announcement to terminate blockchain-based program

October 19, 2023, 3:00PM EDT

Crypto Ecosystems

Polygon proposes 13-member 'protocol council' to supervise smart contract upgrades

October 19, 2023, 8:00AM EDT

Crypto Ecosystems

Eligible Coinbase retail customers outside the US can now trade perpetuals

October 18, 2023, 9:00AM EDT

Exchanges

Ethereum validator queues drop to record lows

October 16, 2023, 8:26AM EDT

Layer 1s

Gauntlet proposes deprecating Mai on Aave as stablecoin depegs to $0.72

October 14, 2023, 8:54AM EDT

Crypto Ecosystems

Ferrari to accept crypto for luxury car purchases: Reuters

October 14, 2023, 6:19AM EDT

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