Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk's weekly wrap of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, a reporter at CoinDesk.

LayerZero blamed the $290 million Kelp DAO exploit on Kelp's decision to use a single-verifier configuration, despite prior warnings to adopt a multi-verifier setup. Attackers, whom LayerZero ...

DotnetFastMCP provides a clean, attribute-based approach to building MCP servers that implement the JSON-RPC 2.0 protocol. It includes a native .NET Client Library client for consuming MCP servers, ...

Google on Sunday announced a new open standard called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) for AI agent-based shopping, at the National Retail Federation (NRF) conference. The standard, developed ...

Contemporary hemodynamic testing intersects with many aspects of cardiovascular disease management. There is a growing understanding that accurate diagnosis, phenotyping, and management of cardiogenic ...

NOWNodes is a blockchain-as-a-service solution that lets users get access to full Nodes and blockbook Explorers via API. When you’re building serious crypto infrastructure, you have two options: build ...

Cybersecurity researchers have presented new findings related to a now-patched security issue in Microsoft's Windows Remote Procedure Call (RPC) communication protocol that could be abused by an ...

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has rapidly become a foundational standard for connecting large language models (LLMs) and other AI applications with the systems and data they need to be genuinely ...

Summary is AI generated, newsroom reviewed. Sui adopts gRPC beta for faster blockchain data streaming. gRPC outperforms JSON-RPC with 6x faster serialization. Sui gains an edge over Ethereum, Solana, ...

Update to the MCP SDK for C# brings an improved authentication protocol, elicitation support, structured tool output, and support for resource links in tool responses. Microsoft announced that the MCP ...

Abstract: In blockchain networks, so-called "full nodes" serve data to and relay transactions from clients through an RPC interface. This serving layer enables integration of "Web3" data, stored on ...