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August 20, 2026

A developer in 2026 can give an AI agent a funded wallet in an afternoon. Circle’s Agent Stack, which launched on May 11, hands an...

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List of 2026 Dead web3 Project

The 2026 Crypto Shakeout: What 100+ Dead Projects Leave Behind

August 12, 2026

More than 100 dead web3 crypto projects — BitMEX, POAP, Tally, Zapper, Moonbeam and others — shut down in 2026. A data-driven look at why...

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The Next Web3 Infrastructure May Be Confidential Computing

The Next Web3 Infrastructure May Be Confidential Computing

July 14, 2026

Consider an AI trading agent deployed on a public blockchain. The agent receives a user’s private strategy, reasons over it, and submits a transaction. Every...

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TVL is Misleading: The Hidden Risks Inside Tokenized Assets

TVL is Misleading: The Hidden Risks Inside Tokenized Assets

June 29, 2026

Total Value Locked (TVL) has become the default scoreboard for tokenized Real-World Assets (RWAs). This category now sits anywhere between $17 billion and $35 billion,...

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The Web3 Developer Tool Stack in June 2026: Confidential Compute, Cross-Chain Execution, and AI Agent Wallets Go Mainstream

June 25, 2026

Arcium hits 1 million confidential computations on Solana, ZINC breaks into top 3 revenue protocols, and a wave of developer tools lands including MintLocke, Universal...

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Inco enables developers to easily create confidential smart contracts with private data types, operations and programmable access control.

Confidential Smart Contracts on Base: A Deep Technical Look at Inco Lightning

June 23, 2026

Public blockchains made a radical trade. In exchange for trustlessness, they put everything on display — every balance, every transfer, every bid, every vote, forever....

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Best New Web3 Developer Tools of June 2026: MintLocke, Universal Gas Framework, Elytro, and MetaMask Go Agentic

June 17, 2026

MintLocke brings self-custodial DeFi automation, Universal Gas Framework solves cross-chain gas pain, Elytro gives AI agents spending power, and MetaMask launches its own AI Agent...

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How to Build a Verifiable dApp on EigenCloud - A Developer Guide to the Full Stack

How to Build a Verifiable dApp on EigenCloud: A Developer’s Guide to the Full Stack

June 16, 2026

EigenCloud is more than a rebrand; it is a complete infrastructure stack for developers who need off-chain computation to carry the same trust guarantees as...

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Zcash’s Invisible Money Printer: Inside the Orchard Soundness Bug

June 13, 2026

A four-year-old flaw in Zcash’s flagship privacy circuit could have minted counterfeit ZEC that no one would ever be able to see or find out...

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Beyond Restaking: How EigenCloud Is Rebuilding Blockchain Infrastructure From the Ground Up

Beyond Restaking: How EigenCloud Is Rebuilding Blockchain Infrastructure From the Ground Up

June 11, 2026

What started as EigenLayer, a restaking protocol that let Ethereum validators reuse staked ETH to secure additional services, has become something considerably more ambitious. In...

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Quantus Q-Day Event Predicts the Demise of Bitcoin

June 6, 2026

Quantus convened cryptographers, blockchain builders, and investors at the Network School to thrash out how blockchains should upgrade for the post-quantum era. The event was...

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Web3 Dev Tooling 2026 - What Product Hunt Latest Launches Tell Us

Web3 Dev Tooling 2026: What Product Hunt’s Latest Launches Tell Us

June 6, 2026

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