Loyal readers of The Protocol will recall that we launched this article on April 26, 2023, to cowl technological developments throughout the blockchain business, after winding down its predecessor, Legitimate Factors, which was centered solely on Ethereum. (In case you are taken with that historical past, we wrote right here about how we turned $15,000 into $70,000 working an Ethereum validator.) We began protecting Bitcoin expertise within the publication together with Solana and Cosmos and Sui and the whole lot else. Over time, the format developed, and received a bit longer — as I more and more geeked out over blockchain tech and located myself incrementally incompetent at leaving cool stuff out. I say that with utmost earnestness, as a result of as the principle writer of The Protocol, I additionally received increasingly more snarky and cynical and jaded in regards to the varied information developments, particularly concerning the cash finish of the enterprise, whereas concurrently getting increasingly more wowed by all the builders and entrepreneurs on this house popping out with a whole lot of fascinating initiatives and updates each week, as duly highlighted within the Protocol Village column. We launched an accompanying podcast that received actually good till it was, er, paused indefinitely earlier this yr as a result of lack of a sponsor and departure of our producer.