On Wednesday, September 16th, 2020, the team building Uniswap launched a token and airdropped it to every address that had ever executed a trade using the protocol.

This week has been one of the wildest in crypto, and that really is saying something. I'm talking about SushiSwap— a fork of the Uniswap decentralized exchange— and the incredible drama around it's creation and launch.

On August 20th, 2020, the team behind MetaMask— the most popular dApp-enabled wallet in the Ethereum ecosystem— announced a change to their software license.

On Tuesday, August 4th, the Medalla ETH 2.0 testnet was launched. If all goes well, this will be the final testnet before the launch of the “Phase 0” mainnet.

The team behind Augur has launched the next version of their decentralized betting market protocol.

Decentralized Finance, or DeFi, has long been the dominant narrative in the Ethereum ecosystem. Over the last couple of months, it's become the leading trend in all of the crypto world. This is not that surprising. The most interesting experiments in crypto have been happening in DeFi for quite some time.

On Wednesday, July 15th, 2020, a hacker succeeded in compromising Twitter. The hacker gained access to seemingly all accounts on the platform, and used this power to tweet a Bitcoin giveaway scam, first from the accounts of crypto personalities and exchanges, and later from the accounts of high profile celebrities and politicians.

We'll learn the basics of how state channels work, and why they're complex to implement. We'll discuss how they're used in Bitcoin's Lightning network for payments, and how they can be leveraged for more complex applications when backed by Ethereum smart contracts. We'll close by looking at why state channels haven't seen much adoption to date, but why that could be poised to change.

In recent months, the quirky crypto world-building game called "Cryptovoxels" has garnered increasing attention.

I sent the first issue of Build Blockchain out to fifty subscribers on June 3rd, 2018. Two years and thousands of subscribers later, I get to send the 100th issue, and you're reading it now!

Earlier this month, the team at StarkWare announced they were pushing their novel layer 2 scaling solution to the Ethereum mainnet.

This year is shaping up to be one filled with intense upheaval and colossal societal shifts, and it’s not even June yet. As the tumultuous and tragic year that is 2020 continues to unfold, I can’t help but notice how crypto seems “antifragile” to some of these accelerating trends.

On Wednesday, May 20th, 2020, someone moved Bitcoin that had not been touched since being mined in February of 2009, a mere month after Satoshi launched the network.

On Monday, Grammy Award winning artist RAC used a token to sell a limited edition cassette tape of his new album.

Sometime in the next couple of days, the 630,000th Bitcoin block will be mined. In that block, and in all subsequent blocks, the miner creating it will receive 6.25 newly minted BTC, which is half of what miners have been receiving for the last four years.

Back in January, I wrote about four projects on the "must ship list" for 2020. We're now one third of the way through the year, and while it feels like the time has flown by, it also somehow feels like January was a decade ago. Let's check in on these projects now.

In the past week, there have been two notable hacks of Decentralized Finance smart contracts running on Ethereum, both involving a token called imBTC.

As the world turned its attention to the unfolding coronavirus crisis, one of the most fascinating stories in crypto went mostly overlooked. The hostile takeover of the Steem network, and the ensuing community response, might just be the most interesting example of decentralized governance we've seen since Ethereum's DAO debacle or Bitcoin's block size wars.

As the western world enters its second month of the coronavirus crisis, it seems the absolute worst case public health scenarios have come off the table.