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  • Reflections on Bitcoin Transaction Batching

    How batching payments has benefited our customers, internal operations, and the overall Bitcoin networkBy Brock MillerEarlier this year, Coinbase rolled out Bitcoin transaction batching. Since launching, we have batched 100% of Coinbase Consumer and Coinbase Pro customer send requests for Bitcoin. Over this time, we’ve realized 75.2% savings in transaction fees and have passed all of those savings on to our customers. We’ve also reduced our daily transaction count by 95%. In this blog post, we’l… … More

  • The State of the Ethereum Network: 5 Years Running

    Looking back on the first five years of our ecosystem’s quest to upgrade the Internet.First, no one’s heard of you.Then they’ve heard of you but think you’re nuts.Then they understand your product, but think it has no opportunity.Then they view your product as a toy.Then they see it as an amazing toy.Then they start using it.Then they couldn’t imagine life without it.–Morgan Housel, “When You Change the World and No One Notices”No One’s Heard of YouEthereum is now the most actively developed, mo… … More

  • The Next Stage of DeFi Pulse Data has Arrived

    Since its launch, DeFi Pulse has tracked data and analytics for the most popular applications in decentralized finance (DeFi) popularizing the Total Value Locked (TVL) metric and becoming a vital source of information in the community. Seeing our metrics cited in so many places from tweets to articles to even academic research, we created DeFi Pulse Data to allow anyone to access our data for their needs in one easy to use dashboard. And as DeFi continues to grow, we believe it is extremely… … More

  • The Yield Farming Frenzy and its Impact on DeFi

    If you follow DeFi, you’ve probably noticed that the concept of yield farming is everywhere lately. From some of the most original memes in the Ethereum ecosystem to traditional news outlets like Forbes, crop rotation to maximize yield across protocols has become one of the defining activities on DeFi in 2020. So, what is Yield Farming? Yield farming is the act of leveraging different DeFi protocols and products to earn a yield or a return on their assets, in some cases obtaining profits … … More

  • Say Hello to the ConsenSys Discord

    Jump into our new server and build alongside the top teams in the Ethereum ecosystem.By Billy Luedtke, Master of Wizardy at ConsenSysTLDR: Join the ConsenSys Discord. This is the latest step in our journey to break down our walls and work more closely with all of you to keep pushing Ethereum and the decentralized web forward.There’s something magical that happens on ConsenSys’ internal channels. You can message the company:Is anyone working on X?Can someone help me with Y?What is the state of Z?… … More

  • Introducing mStable – meta-assets with native yield and zero slippage swaps

    The fragmentation of the stablecoin market in DeFi has led to a lackluster experience for many crypto users. Gone are the days when DeFi was DAI-centric; nowadays, most DeFi users find themselves having to shuffle between a handful of stablecoins in order to take advantage of the opportunities available in DeFi. And if you aren’t trying to hack your yield, you’re missing out by today’s standards. The whole process can be a lot to take in for even experienced users; imagine… … More

  • Introducing mStable – meta-assets with native yield and zero slippage trades

    The fragmentation of the stablecoin market in DeFi has led to a lackluster experience for many crypto users. Gone are the days when DeFi was DAI-centric; nowadays, most DeFi users find themselves having to shuffle between a handful of stablecoins in order to take advantage of the opportunities available in DeFi. And if you aren’t trying to hack your yield, you’re missing out by today’s standards. The whole process can be a lot to take in for even experienced users; imagine… … More

  • Major Financial Clearinghouse Is Exploring Ethereum for Digital Asset Management

    The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s new prototype leverages the Ethereum blockchain to streamline capital markets activity.The financial services industry has taken another step forward into blockchain-based digital assets with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s recent release of their Project Whitney Case Study. The platform, which uses Ethereum as its core technology, embraces a new approach to the representation of value in capital markets and signals an era of in… … More

  • Scaling connections with Ruby and MongoDB

    By Michael de HoogCoinbase was launched 8 years ago as a Ruby on Rails app using MongoDB as its primary data store. Today, the primary paved-road language at Coinbase is Golang, but we continue to run and maintain the original Rails monolith, deployed at large scale with data stored across many MongoDB clusters.This blog post outlines some scaling issues connecting from a Rails app to MongoDB, and how a recent change to our database connection management solved some of these issues.Global VM Loc… … More

  • Container technologies at Coinbase

    Why Kubernetes is not part of our stackBy Drew Rothstein, Director of EngineeringTLDR: Container orchestration platforms are complex and amazing technologies, helping some businesses and teams solve a whole suite of problems. What’s commonly overlooked however, is that container technologies also create a large set of challenges that must be overcome to prevent failures.This post is adapted from an internal blog post as I haven’t seen many write-ups like this externally available. Minimal redact… … More

  • How €350M Worth of Real Estate Was Tokenized on Ethereum

    Behind the scenes of Mata Capital’s landmark tokenization project and what it means for the future of asset management.“This marks the beginning of a radical transformation of the real estate asset management sector.”–Matthieu Bouchaud, Product Lead at Codefi AssetsFrom title token prototypes in the UK to fractionalized condos in Manhattan, real estate tokenization has emerged in recent years as one of the most here-and-now use cases of blockchain technology for large asset and property managers… … More

  • 30 Blockchain Platform Technical Factors

    Key technical aspects to consider when choosing a blockchain platform for your business use case.By Clemens Wan, Solution Architect at ConsenSysIf your choice of blockchain platform has less to do with the business factors (see 30 Blockchain Platform Business Factors), then perhaps you’re looking at some of the technical aspects for your use case. This list of 30 runs through blockchain-specific questions that should be top of mind when vetting a platform.DevOps / Network / Deployment / Protocol… … More

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