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.

Solar panel testing lab Kiwa PVEL has updated its Product Qualification Program (PQP). The revisions address growing concern areas for the global solar industry, including the rise of field failures ...

Toxicology testing is frequently performed on newborns with known or suspected prenatal substance exposure, even though research shows that these tests often add no new clinically relevant information ...

ESP32 Bit Pirate is an open-source firmware that turns your device into a multi-protocol hacker's tool, inspired by the legendary Bus Pirate. It supports sniffing, sending, scripting, and interacting ...

uZigbee is a MicroPython library that brings full Zigbee 3.0 support to the ESP32-C6 through a native C bridge to the ESP-Zigbee-SDK (ZBOSS stack). It provides high-level Python APIs for Coordinator, ...

When a 5G network goes down for a brief minute, millions of users find themselves unable to do the simplest of things their phones otherwise do effortlessly, like placing a call, sending a message, or ...

The English-language Blue Protocol: Star Resonance Closed Beta Test is live this weekend on PC and I’ve been checking it out for myself ahead of the game’s global launch in October. There are eight ...