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Trump’s Bitcoin made in America push runs into a power problem the tax bill cannot fix
Congress is moving to fix how the US tax code treats crypto mining and staking rewards, and for validators and their …
Live updates: BlackRock's IBIT sheds $300 million as bitcoin demand dwindles
IBIT alone shed $300 million while smaller funds absorbed some of the outflow. The selloff lands as the same AI trade…
Private keys, not smart contracts, caused 40% of crypto's $16 billion hack losses. Here's whats being done.
The industry is moving toward fixing the private key vulnerability issue, just not evenly, Wish Wu, co-founder and CE…
Ripple wants institutions to borrow against tokenized assets on XRPL
A proposed XRPL standard would let institutions borrow against tokenized assets, with the blockchain enforcing loan t…
Bernstein says prediction-market infrastructure rush could spark wave of M&A across consumer platforms
Bernstein said DraftKings' DKeX launch keeps prediction-market revenue in-house as consolidation reshapes trading and…
Vitalik Buterin says crypto’s most powerful idea is still nowhere near ready
The Ethereum co-founder says indistinguishability obfuscation could one day act like a “trustless trusted third par…
Bitcoin dips to $59,700 as Iran de-escalation lifts stocks but not crypto
U.S. equity futures rose after reports the U.S. and Iran agreed to halt strikes and resume talks. Bitcoin has barely …
European crypto users are being paid to move before MiCA closes the door
The European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) has triggered a fight among licensed crypto exchanges to captur…
Ethereum Protocol Debate: Diverting Staking Rewards for Public Goods Funding Sparks Controversy
Ethereum Protocol Debate: Diverting Staking Rewards for Public Goods Funding Sparks Controversy: a fresh look at Ethe…
Coinbase and OKX try to lure in Binance’s EU users after it failed to secure a MiCA license
Brian Armstrong of Coinbase and Star Xu of OKX offered new users sign up bonuses of up to 8% of their deposits or tra…
Bitcoin’s broken production cost floor is splitting miners into survivors and sellers
Bitcoin is trading just above $60,000 right now, and the network's estimated all-in cost to produce a single coin is …
Base suffers second mainnet stall in two days
Base block production resumed as of 16:11 UTC, following an alert to another mainnet chain stall at 15:33 UTC.
Crypto lending turns to Wall Street credit rules to win back institutional trust after 2022 collapse
Celsius froze withdrawals in June 2022 before filing for Chapter 11 in July 2022, and Genesis froze redemptions after…
Base delays Beryl hard fork over B20 registry timing issue
Base delayed its Beryl mainnet upgrade to June 26 to give the B20 Activation Registry time to become fully operational.
Coinbase's Base resumes block production after 2-hour outage
Coinbase's blockchain Base says a consensus problem knocked its network offline for around two hours on Thursday befo…
Live markets: Bitcoin rebounds to nearly $60,000. Kospi, Nikkei sink
BTC sees a relief bounce as Asian stocks wilt following sharp losses on Wall Street.
Does Botanix’s failure prove Bitcoiners don’t care about DeFi?
The failure of Botanix suggests that Bitcoiners still prefer Ethereum DeFi to Bitcoin L2s. How can Bitcoin L2s change…
Russia creates crypto sanctions loophole, but cash-out routes remain ringfenced
The ELR gives selected firms a legal route, but wallets, exchanges, counterparties, and issuers still face pressure. …
Coinbase Open To More Acquisitions After $2.9B Deribit Deal Closes, CEO Says
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the exchange remains open to more acquisitions after closing its $2.9 billion Derib…
Coinbase's Base blockchain resumes after two-hour outage disrupted network
The incident temporarily halted transaction processing on one of Ethereum's largest layer-2 networks.
Coinbase-incubated Base blockchain suffers ‘Unsafe Head Stall’ interrupting block production
Deposits and withdrawals have also been affected, while transactions are delayed or stalled, according to Base's stat…
Kraken, Maple launch onchain warehouse facility for crypto-backed institutional loans
Kraken's new facility with Maple brings a traditional warehouse financing model onchain, allowing the exchange to exp…
‘Stablecoin’ Google searches down 54% as supply growth stalls after 2025 boom
The decline in search volumes this month coincides with aggregate stablecoin supply having reversed its 10-month expa…
Kraken expands OTC lending through an onchain warehouse facility with Maple
Maple’s lenders will provide a revolving line of funding to supply USDC liquidity for Kraken's over-the-counter bor…
Live markets: Bitcoin, ether lead $1 billion liquidation losses as AI trade keeps going
A liquidation flush took bitcoin to its lowest since early June before Micron's blowout earnings and SK Hynix's U.S. …
Bitcoin miners face deepening margin squeeze as revenue falls below production costs
An estimated 20% of miners are now unprofitable at current prices, and the stress shows up at the network level, too.
Upheaval at the Ethereum Foundation has some of crypto’s biggest names feeling bullish
In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we're looking at Ethereum's eventful week that started off with th…
Aave positioned to capture tokenized asset growth in DeFi: Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered said tokenized assets moving into DeFi could drive deposits into Aave and help the protocol rebuil…
Latest bear market victim shows how quickly DeFi users are left behind when crypto projects move on
Swell warned users to bridge out by June 23, turning a planned L2 shutdown into a test of user exit procedures. The p…