To stake AVAX, you lock tokens with a validator on Avalanche’s Primary Network through a wallet like Core, an exchange such as Coinbase or Binance, or by running a validator node yourself. Delegators need at least 25 AVAX; running your…
The best crypto staking platforms fall into three groups: centralized exchanges that stake on your behalf, non-custodial liquid staking protocols that hand you a tradable token in return, and DeFi staking platforms built around a specific chain or pool. Which…
Liquid staking is a way to earn staking rewards on your crypto without losing access to it. You deposit an asset like ETH into a staking protocol, and instead of locking it away, the protocol hands you back a tradable…
To implement meta transactions with ERC-2771, four separate pieces have to come together: a forwarder-aware contract, a trusted forwarder, an off-chain signing step, and something willing to submit the transaction and pay for it. None of these four pieces is…
The optimistic virtual machine, or OVM, is the execution environment Optimism built to run Ethereum smart contracts on OP Mainnet, its Layer 2 (L2) network, while still supporting fraud proofs back on Ethereum’s Layer 1. The OVM meaning boils down…
An Ethereum block reward — what people also call an Ethereum mining reward, from the years when miners were the ones earning it — is the ETH paid to whoever adds a valid block to the chain: newly issued coins…
An AI coding agent that’s supposed to check a wallet’s balance, read a contract’s state, or broadcast a transaction can’t do any of that on its own — a language model has no live connection to a blockchain by default.…
dRPC is a blockchain infrastructure provider that routes API requests across a network of independent node operators instead of running its own centralized server farm. Applications send a standard JSON-RPC call to dRPC’s endpoint, and its routing layer picks whichever…
Ankr is a blockchain infrastructure company that runs RPC nodes across dozens of networks and sells access to them through a credit-based API, so developers can read chain data and send transactions without hosting their own servers. It’s one of…
QuickNode is a blockchain infrastructure company that gives developers hosted access to RPC nodes across roughly 79 blockchains and 135+ networks, so applications can read and write blockchain data without running that infrastructure themselves. Instead of syncing a Solana validator…