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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 …
Former Ethereum Foundation leader warns of funding gap as governance shifts
A former Ethereum Foundation member says the network must quickly build new funding institutions as the Foundation st…
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.
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.
Ethereum treasury firm Sharplink takes in ether for the first time in eight months
The second-largest corporate ether holder received 5,000 ETH worth about $7.85 million on Thursday, its first inflow …
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…
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-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…
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…
Ethereum’s much-hated staking 'tax' may already be obsolete
Ethereum’s latest “funding crisis” has triggered a fierce debate over whether to tax staking rewards or to purs…
Trump’s quantum computing push puts $449 billion in “exposed Bitcoin” back in the limelight
On June 22, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders that put the federal government’s most sensitive civ…
Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum Foundation will cut budget 40% in major reset
The reduction comes on the same day the EF confirmed a 20% reduction in headcount and follows the resignation of co-E…
Ethereum Foundation cuts 20% of staff amid leadership exodus
The reduction follows a period of significant upheaval at the organization’s leadership level.
Ethereum Foundation sacks 20% of workforce amid strategic restructuring
The Ethereum Foundation fired 54 employees and unveiled a new organizational structure as Vitalik Buterin said the gr…
Trump signs orders to build a quantum computer and protect against the one that could break encryption
The White House issued twin executive orders to accelerate U.S. development of large-scale quantum computers while si…
Crypto lobby urges Congress pass staking and mining tax bill as is
A trio of crypto lobby groups says a bill allowing staking and mining rewards to be taxed when they’re sold should …
Trump signs orders for quantum computer, cryptography upgrades
“We’re going to be investing in American quantum leadership like never before to stay ahead of the pack,” says …
Bitmine, Sharplink and Joe Lubin back Ethereum R&D nonprofit
Sharplink says the new nonprofit, Ethlabs, “exists to ensure the network is ready to absorb” the demand that inst…
Ether’s biggest corporate holders back new Ethereum research hub
Ethlabs was formed with support from SharpLink, Bitmine and Consensys CEO Joe Lubin as the network's development is e…
Ethereum Foundation talent exodus sparks fresh debate over leadership
The Ethereum community is once again debating the future of the foundation after co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang…
Crypto's second U.S. lobbying front — tax policy — sees industry push on mining, staking
The crypto sector's leading U.S. advocacy groups asked the U.S. House's tax committee to advance a bill to clarify tr…
Bitmine added $92 million of ETH, with Tom Lee continuing to believe in 'crypto spring'
The largest Ethereum treasury firm slowed its buying pace but remains on track to reach its goal of owning 5% of ETH …
Taiko halts its Ethereum layer-2 network after a bridge exploit, token dives
An attacker forged withdrawal proofs to drain about $1.7 million, the same type of flaw behind this year's biggest br…
Ethereum validators asked to fund projects with up to 10% of staking rewards under new proposal
A new governance proposal would let validators redirect part of their staking income toward ecosystem funding, raisin…
Ethereum Foundation Details Clear Signing Wallet Standards to Combat Phishing
Ethereum Foundation proposes clear signing standards to replace blind signing, making Web3 transactions human-readabl…
Bitcoin miner Bitdeer mined 921 BTC, but its smaller stash raises a bigger question
The miner's AI cloud growth may reduce sell pressure, but May data shows Bitcoin retention still lagging. The post Bi…
Bitcoin Cost-Of-Production Signal Raises Miner Stress Question As BTC Holds Support
An X post claimed Bitcoin is again trading below average cost of production, while TradingView charts show BTC holdin…