THE PROTOCOL: Solana | Boom Times or Blip?
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🗓️ 4 January 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Vitalik Buterin unveils the latest iteration of the Ethereum ecosystem roadmap, Dencun is introduced as the transformative upgrade, while Solana garners increased momentum.
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In this installment of "The Protocol," hosts Brad Keoun, the founding editor of The Protocol Newsletter, and tech journalists Sam Kessler and Margaux Nijkerk, explore the following stories:
TOPIC |
- Dencun - The Next Big Upgrade
Developers also penciled in the end of February as a soft target for the upgrade to hit the main Ethereum blockchain.
- UPDATED ETHEREUM ROADMAP
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin released an updated version of his Ethereum ecosystem roadmap last weekend. The roadmap is used as a rough guiding post and progress tracker for the overall development of the Ethereum ecosystem, and this year's update gave a glimpse into how Buterin thinks the second-most valuable blockchain ecosystem might be able to address two of its biggest challenges: speed and centralization.
PROTOCOL VILLAGE SEGMENT
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- SOLANA: SOL token
Solana has been one of the biggest gainers of the latest crypto cycle, with a handful of airdrops and meme tokens accelerating big boosts in the price of SOL. Also, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has released an updated roadmap for the ecosystem.
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Ethereum Developers Target January for First Testnet Deployment of Next Big Upgrade, 'Dencun'
https://x.com/vitalikbuterin/status/
Single slot finality | ethereum.org
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