The Protocol: Coinbase Blockchain's Viral Use Case Puts Focus on Optimism's Tech

The Protocol: Coinbase Blockchain's Viral Use Case Puts Focus on Optimism's Tech
The week in blockchain tech: Crypto-fueled social marketplace Friend.tech goes viral on Coinbase’s new Base blockchain, Shiba Inu community’s “Shibarium” network aims for fresh start, and Ethereum experts handicap the competition between leading technologies for layer-2 networks.

Tornado Cash Devs Charged With Helping Hackers Launder $1B, Including Infamous North Korean Attacks

Tornado Cash Devs Charged With Helping Hackers Launder B, Including Infamous North Korean Attacks
Tornado Cash developers Roman Storm and Roman Semenov were arrested and charged with money laundering and sanctions violations tied to their work with the privacy mixer which “facilitated more than $1 billion in money laundering” for North Korea’s Lazarus Group.