NFT Market Cap Returns to Pre-Hype Levels Near $1.5B
The global non-fungible token (NFT) sector fell below $1.5 billion in total market capitalization, returning to levels last seen before...
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Ethereum’s L2 Scaling Story Gets a Rewrite From Vitalik Buterin
Vitalik Buterin is openly challenging long-held assumptions about Ethereum’s layer-two ( L2) strategy, arguing that the original vision for L2s...
Ethereum L2 Builders Debate Scaling Role After Vitalik’s Rollup Rethink
Several layer-2 builders responded after Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said the original vision of L2s as the primary scaling engine...
How World Liberty’s $3.4B USD1 Stablecoin Powers Onchain Lending Markets
Key takeawaysWorld Liberty Financial has entered DeFi lending with the launch of World Liberty Markets, an onchain borrowing and lending...
Crypto Bridge Protocol CrossCurve Exploited for $3M
Update (Feb. 2, 12:20 am UTC): This article has been updated to add a post by CrossCurve CEO Boris Povar.Crypto...
Why Proof-of-Reserves Isn’t Enough to Trust Crypto Exchanges
What is proof-of-reserves? At its core, proof-of-reserves is a public demonstration that a custodian holds the assets it claims to...
There Is No Trust In DeFi Without Proper Risk Management
Opinion by: Robert Schmitt, founder and co-CEO at CorkDeFi has entered its institutional phase. As large investors dip their toes...
Dakota Launches Stablecoin Platform for Enterprise Payments and Treasury
Financial technology company Dakota launched a stablecoin infrastructure platform as more enterprises look to adopt digital dollars without taking on...
The Next Alpha Is Onchain
Opinion by: Annabelle Huang, co-founder and CEO of Altius LabsFor centuries, the world’s traders and speculators have pursued one thing...
Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 Open Interest Notched $793M ATH On Monday
Layer-1 blockchain network Hyperliquid has seen an explosion in trading through “Builder-Deployed Perpetuals” this month, hitting a new all-time high...
In The Battle Of Chains, Distribution Is King
Opinion by: Marcin Kaźmierczak, co-founder of RedStoneThe fight for dominance in blockchain won’t be won by whoever has the lowest...
ARK Invest Buys Coinbase, Circle and Bullish as Crypto Stocks Slide
Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest has increased its exposure to crypto-linked equities, adding shares of Coinbase, Circle and Bullish as prices...
Ethereum Foundation Forms Dedicated Post-Quantum Security Team
The Ethereum Foundation has made post-quantum security a central focus of the network’s long-term roadmap, announcing the formation of a...
Restaking Promises Yield But Delivers Only Stacked Risk
Opinion by: Laura Wallendal, co-founder and CEO of AcreRestaking is often heralded as the next big thing in decentralized finance...
Buterin Pitches ‘A Bit Simpler’ Staking Setup for Ethereum
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed adding distributed validator technology (DVT) to the blockchain’s staking mechanism, arguing it could simplify...
Crypto’s Next Battle Is Privacy: Regulators Face Chicken-Egg Dilemma
Financial privacy is becoming the next structural battle in crypto, and neither governments nor the technology are fully prepared for...
WLFI Faces Backlash After ‘Team Wallets’ Dominate USD1 Growth Proposal Vote
World Liberty Financial (WLFI) is facing criticism following a governance vote that approved a USD1 growth proposal, despite objections from...
Bridges Are Crypto’s Next FTX Waiting To Happen
Opinion by: Kadan Stadelmann, chief technology officer of Komodo PlatformCrypto didn’t get wrecked by regulators or some shadowy conspiracy. The...
Crypto’s Decentralization Falls Apart at Interoperability: Casper CTO
Moving value across blockchains is now largely mediated by a small group of centralized intermediaries despite crypto’s long-standing claims of...
Ethereum Must Stop Sacrificing Values For Adoption: Buterin
The Ethereum ecosystem’s core values of decentralization, privacy and self-sovereignty have been sacrificed in pursuit of mainstream adoption and that...
Korea University Blockchain Institute Partners With Injective as Validator in Global Ecosystem
Korea University’s Blockchain Research Institute has partnered with Injective, joining its global ecosystem as a validator to strengthen ties between...
SWIFT Tests Societe Generale’s MiCA-Compliant Euro Stablecoin
Global bank messaging network SWIFT has tested Societe Generale’s euro-pegged stablecoin as part of a collaboration aimed at improving interoperability...
