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 targeted completely on Ethereum. (In case you are concerned with that historical past, we wrote right here about how we turned $15,000 into $70,000 working an Ethereum validator.) We began masking Bitcoin know-how within the publication together with Solana and Cosmos and Sui and all the things else. Over time, the format advanced, and obtained 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 primary creator of The Protocol, I additionally obtained increasingly more snarky and cynical and jaded in regards to the varied information developments, particularly relating to the cash finish of the enterprise, whereas concurrently getting increasingly more wowed by the entire builders and entrepreneurs on this area popping out with lots of of fascinating tasks and updates each week, as duly highlighted within the Protocol Village column. We launched an accompanying podcast that obtained actually good till it was, er, paused indefinitely earlier this yr as a result of lack of a sponsor and departure of our producer.