Category Labs launches Cadence, a new consensus protocol designed to alleviate the MEV problem at the protocol level.
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Bio Protocol launches OpenLabs, a crowdfunding platform focused on research crowdfunding for collaboration between humans and AI agents.
According to Foresight News , the decentralized scientific research (DeSci) platform Bio Protocol has launched OpenLabs, positioned as a coordination layer connecting scientific ideas with funding execution, allowing humans and AI agents to jointly advance research projects. The core process involves posting ideas, which are then discussed and voted on by the community to become formal projects. Projects include collaborative spaces, bounty tasks, and funding channels; mature projects can be listed on the Bio Protocol launchpad for fundraising. The platform comprises five modules: post discovery, project collaboration, agent participation, USDC yield staking (2%-4% annualized return, principal unaffected, yield only used to cover computing power costs), and a bounty system. It is currently online, with the first batch of projects showcased on the platform. Voting, private data rooms, and the launchpad will be added gradually.
Protocol upgrade decouples consensus from execution to solve scaling bottlenecks
CTDG Dev Hub participant’s protocol upgrade decouples consensus from execution, allowing network nodes to reach agreement on blocks before transaction execution completes.
Citadel Securities and DTCC partner as omnichain interoperability protocol LayerZero launches a new exchange, expanding institutional market infrastructure for digital assets.
BWENEWS AI: Citadel Securities and DTCC partner as omnichain interoperability protocol LayerZero launches a new exchange, expanding institutional market infrastructure for digital assets.
Shipyard winds down IPFS work after Protocol Labs ends funding
The funding loss leaves InterPlanetary File System software without dedicated maintainers and puts the future of key public services in Protocol Labs’ hands.
Michael Saylor: Strong consensus is Bitcoin's immune system; protocol changes require overwhelming consensus.
According to Mars Finance, Michael Saylor stated in an article on the X platform that strong consensus is Bitcoin's immune system. Transaction fees price block space, nodes set policies, miners build blocks, and holders allocate capital. Protocol changes must achieve overwhelming consensus, therefore bad ideas will fail before becoming disruptive or harmful protocol changes.
Cloudflare launches a monetization gateway that enables stablecoin payments via the x402 protocol.
PANews reported on July 2nd that, according to The Defiant, Cloudflare opened its Monetization Gateway waiting list on Wednesday, allowing customers to pay for the use of web pages, datasets, APIs, or MCP tools via stablecoin settlement using the x402 protocol. Cloudflare stated that it handles approximately one-fifth of global internet traffic, and this product is designed to address the trend of AI agents gradually replacing humans as the primary source of web traffic, arguing that traditional per-seat or subscription-based charging models are unsuitable for machine-to-machine transactions—where agents only read a page or call an API once, rather than maintaining a monthly account. Monetization Gateway provides website operators with a unified control panel, executing payment policies at the Cloudflare network edge before requests reach the origin server.