The Protocol: Side-Dealing Accusations Put Crypto VC Funding in Spotlight
- Vitalik Buterin spoke at the EthCC conference in Brussels, addressing Ethereum's strengths and weaknesses, including concerns about transaction censorship and a proposal to increase the "quorum threshold" from 75% to 80%. - Polychain accused former general partner Niraj Pant of violating ethics policies by taking an undisclosed personal allocation of tokens from a project that raised funds from the firm. - The Republican Party has officially adopted a platform to support cryptocurrency innovation. - Residents of Granbury, Texas, complained of physical symptoms due to noise from a nearby Bitcoin mining facility. - Blockchain games are gaining popularity, with the success of Hamster Kombat in Iran. - Core Scientific inked a 12-year, 200 MW deal with CoreWeave for AI-related computing needs and received approaches from private equity firms for financing.
