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...
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Russia-linked A7A5 stablecoin processed $100B before sanctions hit: Elliptic
Elliptic said the ruble-backed A7A5 token functioned as a bridge into USDT markets before sanctions and exchange controls curbed its...
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...
Franklin Templeton Positions Two Money Market Funds for Tokenized Finance Under GENIUS Act
Franklin Templeton has repositioned two institutional money market funds managed by Western Asset Management to support stablecoin reserves under the...
Ingenico Brings Stablecoin Payments to In-Store Checkout
Payments terminal provider Ingenico has partnered with WalletConnect Pay to enable in-store stablecoin payments across its point-of-sale (POS) systems, marking...
Bank of Italy Models Ether-to-Zero Scenario in Stress Test
The Bank of Italy modeled what would happen to Ethereum’s security and settlement capacity if the price of Ether fell...
Starknet Team Outlines Root Cause of Latest Network Outage
The outage was the second major network disruption in 2025, with both incidents requiring a block reorganization that rolled back...
Nasdaq and CME Team Up To Issue the Nasdaq-CME Crypto Index
The Nasdaq Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group joined forces to unify their crypto indexes, rebranding the...
Optimism Proposes Using 50% Of Superchain Revenue To Buy Back OP Tokens
The Optimism Foundation has floated a major shakeup to the dynamics of the layer 2’s OP token, proposing to allocate...
Banks Must Upgrade Their Blockchain Infrastructure
Opinion by: Igor Mandrigin, co-founder and chief technology and product officer of Gateway.fmFor years, private distributed ledger systems, like Hyperledger,...
Dfns Integrates Concordium Blockchain For Compliant Web3 Wallets
Dfns, a digital wallet infrastructure provider and a partner of tech giant IBM, has integrated Concordium’s layer-1 (L1) blockchain to...
Polymarket Adds Taker Fees to 15-Minute Crypto Markets
Prediction market platform Polymarket updated its documentation to show that 15-minute crypto up/down markets now carry taker fees, marking a...
Starknet Mainnet Is Experiencing Fresh Downtime
Starknet, an Ethereum layer‑2 network that uses zero‑knowledge (ZK) rollups, is experiencing fresh mainnet disruption as the project enters 2026.In...
Aave Founder Responds to Governance Vote With New Strategy
Aave founder and CEO Stani Kulechov has outlined a broader strategic vision for the protocol following a contentious governance vote...
The Top 5 Busiest Blockchains of 2025
Onchain analytics firm Nansen ranked Solana, BNB Chain, Base, Tron and NEAR Protocol as the busiest blockchains in 2025.Solana led...
Compliance-Friendly Tools On The Rise
Crypto privacy entered the spotlight in 2025 as new technology clashed with regulators, a trend that is set to intensify...
