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Bitcoin layer-2s face a bear-market reality check
Botanix's shutdown has raised an uncomfortable question for Bitcoin builders: Does the market actually want programma…
FIFA wanted Avalanche's blockchain to help curb World Cup ticket scalping. Here's how it's going
In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we're looking at how FIFA is using the Avalanche blockchain to tes…
EarnOS launches anti-AI slop app, raises $6 million from 1kx, Circle and Coinbase
Ero app is designed to help brands verify human internet traffic, reduce wastes caused by bots, and reward "authentic…
Crypto’s security nightmare won’t be solved by ordinary audits
Without an update to the current auditing infrastructure, the crypto space will likely continue to suffer significant…
A new Bittensor proposal would turn validators into something like fund managers
Root Reborn would have TAO validators pick which subnets to back and reinvest yield into, rather than constantly sell…
Wall Street is paying up for Bitcoin miners’ AI infrastructure before most of it is built
A megawatt leased to an AI tenant now commands a different price on Wall Street than a megawatt sitting in a Bitcoin …
Live markets: A bitcoin bottom signal flashed as holders absorbed 125,000 BTC in June
Bitcoin's Sharpe ratio hit a level that has marked every cycle low since 2015, but in each case it preceded months of…
Legacy Aztec Connect Contract Drained Of $2.1 Million Three Years After Shutdown
A legacy Aztec Connect contract was exploited years after shutdown, while current Aztec infrastructure remains unaffe…
Humanity Protocol Plans New H Token After $36 Million Key Compromise
Humanity Protocol is restructuring its H token after a $36 million exploit, but the incident appears tied to compromi…
Coinbase unveils ‘System Update’ unlocking an AI advisor, global unified liquidity, options trading and more
Coinbase's latest System Update includes a new AI-powered advisor and global unified liquidity between its U.S. and i…
Squid adds Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin for cross-chain swaps
Cross-chain platform Squid has integrated Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin, allowing users to swap into and out of RLUSD acr…
Ethereum’s biggest protocol overhaul in years moves into its final development stage
Developers are entering the final stretch of work on Glamsterdam, the network's next major upgrade, as teams begin te…
Y Combinator reveals a new AI agent that can build and run an entire business just from a text message
Y Combinator's Locus Founder lets users text a business idea via iMessage, SMS, or Telegram, and the AI handles the r…
Coinbase, AWS enable publishers on CloudFront and WAF to charge AI agents via x402 protocol
Coinbase and AWS are allowing publishers on CloudFront and WAF to charge AI agents for content via the x402 protocol.
Bitcoin miner IREN enters Europe with Nostrum acquisition as AI pivot accelerates
The acquisition adds about 490 megawatts of secured power in Spain as IREN expands beyond Bitcoin mining and builds i…
Live markets: Bitcoin ETFs bled cash Monday while every other crypto ETF gained
Ether, XRP, Solana and Hyperliquid funds all took in money, but bitcoin's outflow was really just Grayscale's GBTC.
‘Let’s just put it in an ETF’ is the worst outcome for bitcoin, says Trezor exec
Trezor Chief Commercial Officer Danny Sanders said simplifying self-custody remains one of bitcoin's biggest onboardi…
Bitcoin mining difficulty drops 10% in second-largest negative adjustment of 2026
The cut hands surviving miners roughly 11% more bitcoin per unit of active hashrate, but all-in production economics …
Aerodrome is turning liquidity into a prediction market with its biggest upgrade yet
The concept, called Predictive Allocation, will encourage participants to anticipate where liquidity will be needed n…
Coinbase quantum report flags exchange cold wallets among millions of bitcoin exposed by address reuse
The report lays out possible solutions to the abandoned coins problem, such as setting a deadline for migration and t…
Crypto’s next billion-dollar hacker may move at superhuman speed
Anthropic’s new Claude Fable 5 puts powerful cyber tools behind safety filters. DeFi, already hit by more than $840…
Bitcoin faces one of its biggest mining difficulty drops as miner margins collapse
The Bitcoin network is poised to execute one of the largest downward adjustments to its mining difficulty in its 17-y…
Ripple wants AI agents to pay in XRP and RLUSD. The market is still mostly USDC
The XRPL AI Starter Kit gives developers tools for agent payments, but early x402 activity has clustered on Base and …
Top cryptographers can't agree on Bitcoin's biggest quantum question
A Coinbase-convened panel says Bitcoin should start preparing for quantum attacks now, but declines to take a positio…
SpaceX IPO scramble reveals difference between tokenizing a stock and getting one
Crypto platforms promised early access to the blockbuster SpaceX IPO through tokenized shares. The problem wasn't tec…
Coinbase Council Warns 7 Million Bitcoin May Face Future Quantum Risk
Coinbase’s Quantum Advisory Council says crypto networks should begin planning for post-quantum migration before th…
Live updates: Bitcoin holds above $63,000, Japan set to hike rates to 31-year high
Crypto firmed across the board on the largest listing in history, but the token most tied to Elon Musk traded right i…
The company that makes your TV is taking ads onchain. Arbitrum helped
LG Electronics has built a blockchain-based advertising platform with the help of Arbitrum.
Man who spent 1,500 BTC on graphics card now helps insure bitcoin holders
Bitsurance, insures clients' bitcoin against "physical attacks" like fire, water, robbery and the "$5 Wrench Attack."