A version of this article appeared in our The Decentralised newsletter on April 8. Sign up here. GM, Aleks here. Ethereum is like an onion — it’s got a lot of layers. There’s layer 1, aka mainnet, aka Ethereum. There are dozens of layer 2 blockchains, aka rollups. And then we have the so-called social...

The Iberian Peninsula’s widespread blackout raises questions about the resilience of the electric power infrastructure in the two countries — and to an extent, the rest of Europe. Spain's power company, Red Eléctrica, proudly declared on April 16 that enough renewable energy had been generated to cover demand. “The ecological transition is moving forward,” it...

Big investors are focusing mostly on Bitcoin. Uncertainty is driving the interest. Altcoins continue to get faded. Institutions only care about Bitcoin right now. At least that’s according to Samara Cohen, BlackRock’s CIO of ETF and Index Investments. “Institutional investors are really largely focused on Bitcoin,” Cohen said on the Blockworks Empire podcast on Monday....