Technology

Arbitrum Foundation distributed 1.16 billion ARB tokens on March 23, 2023, valued at approximately $1.8 billion to 625,000+ eligible early users.

The Monero community crowdfunded Kovri protocol development through donations raising over 7,200 XMR, advancing efforts to hide user IP addresses from cryptocurrency network observers.

Bitcoin Gold hard forked from the Bitcoin blockchain on October 24, 2017, changing the proof-of-work algorithm to enable mining on graphics processing units instead of specialized ASIC hardware.

Segregated Witness activated on Bitcoin's mainnet on August 24, 2017, after miners achieved consensus support, enabling transaction malleability fixes and establishing the foundation for the Lightning Network.

Lightning Labs released the first alpha version of the Lightning Network daemon on January 7, 2017, enabling Bitcoin developers to test payment channels that could process transactions off-chain.