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Inside Zcash's new node that targets Visa-scale privacy at 50,000 transactions per second
The new Zakura client is the first live piece of a plan to take Zcash from roughly one private transaction per second…
DOG Mode explains Bitcoin's next governance fight
Leonidas' DOG Mode client challenges Bitcoin's default relay policies, reopening a philosophical debate over censorsh…
Trusted Volumes Hacker Returns 1,122 ETH, Keeps $2M Bounty
A hacker tied to the Trusted Volumes exploit has returned 1,122 ETH to the protocol, closing part of a security incid…
Trezor exec pushes back on ZachXBT claim that hardware wallets are ‘complete garbage’
"I do not advise using them for important tasks like signing transactions or storing funds," ZachXBT wrote this week.
Cardano hands core development to outside teams in decentralization push
Input Output will transfer control of the Haskell node, Plutus, Hydra and other components as founder Charles Hoskins…
Bitcoin’s anti-spam fight gets a 'DOG Mode' reply
While BIP 110 wants to restrict data through a consensus change and has almost no miner support, a new DOG Mode clien…
Ledger wants AI agents to manage crypto without holding your keys
AI agents can read wallet balances and analyze portfolios but requires every sensitive action to be approved on a Led…
Galaxy targets institutional stablecoin yield with new DeFi vaults
The crypto financial services firm launched Galaxy Curator, a Morpho-based platform that gives Fireblocks' 2,400 inst…
BitMine made $46 million staking Ethereum then lost twice that betting on it
BitMine's push to turn one of the world's largest corporate Ethereum holdings into a source of recurring income gener…
A timeline of the Ethereum Foundation's ongoing shakeup
In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we’re unpacking the timeline of all the changes at the Ethereum …
Bitmine says ETH staking generated $45.7 million, accounting for 98% of quarterly revenue
Bitmine generated $45.7 million from Ethereum staking, which accounted for 98% of quarterly revenue as the company ex…
Live markets: Bitcoin, ether ETFs draw inflows as majors rise as much as 5%
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs took in about $181 million on Tuesday, a day after shedding roughly $425 million, per SoSoValu…
Visa, Mastercard and Ripple back x402 as agent payments average 32 cents
Forty companies now govern x402, the protocol Coinbase built and handed away. It settled about $24 million last month…
NEAR Governance Vote To Scrap Gas Rebates Puts Developer Incentives Under Review
NEAR Governance Vote To Scrap Gas Rebates Puts Developer Incentives Under Review is a useful reminder that crypto cov…
Ethereum Foundation spinout EthSystems targets banks with blockchain privacy technology
The spinout comes amid one of the biggest organizational shakeups at the Ethereum Foundation in years.
Bitcoin's BIP-110 sparked a fight over who gets to decide the future of Bitcoin
BIP-110 sought to limit non-financial data on Bitcoin's blockchain but instead reignited debates over censorship and …
Bitcoin and Ethereum tweet volume falls to 12-month lows despite institutional crypto boom
Retail attention via social chatter is back to 2020 levels even as institutional involvement has moved in the opposit…
Robinhood built a blockchain for tokenized stocks. Memecoins took over
Robinhood Chain has pulled in $135 million of value and 800,000 addresses since July 1. Almost none of it is doing wh…
Coinbase Smart Wallet Verification Upgrade Targets The Multi-Chain UX Problem
Coinbase is still trying to make on-chain activity feel less like a specialist task. Its latest Smart Wallet verifica…
Robinhood Chain surges into top five by DEX volume: Bernstein
Robinhood's new blockchain quickly became a top-five network by DEX volume, signaling strong early demand for its tok…
BNB Chain’s AWS-Linked Agent Studio Pushes AI Back Into The Crypto Infrastructure Race
The AI-agent narrative in crypto has gone through plenty of hype, but BNB Chain is trying to move the discussion towa…
Bitcoin’s BIP 110 fork deadline nears with miner support at zero
The BIP 110 proposal would cap arbitrary data on Bitcoin for a year, but Saylor, Adam Back and others say turning a s…
AI found an Ethereum bug that could take validators offline, but humans had to prove it
The Ethereum Foundation pointed coordinated AI agents at the software its validators run and got a remotely triggerab…
BNB Chain Haber Specs Point To Faster Finality And A More Competitive Network Stack
BNB Chain Haber Specs Point To Faster Finality And A More Competitive Network Stack is the kind of crypto story that …
Vitalik Buterin’s Single Slot Finality Plan Shows Ethereum Still Has A Settlement-Speed Problem To Solve
Vitalik Buterin’s Single Slot Finality Plan Shows Ethereum Still Has A Settlement-Speed Problem To Solve is the kin…
Live markets: Bitcoin ETFs bleed again while ether funds snap a five-day inflow streak
Spot bitcoin funds lost about $95 million on Thursday and ether funds roughly $52 million, ending the one bright spot…
Ethereum's newest nonprofit wants to become Wall Street's guide to crypto
In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we’re digging into Ethereum Institutional, a new nonprofit aimed…
Supreme Court ruling expanding Trump’s authority over federal agencies raises questions for SEC, CFTC as crypto rulemaking advances
A recent Supreme Court ruling expanding President Trump's authority to remove leaders of many agencies could have bro…
'CASHCAT' trader turns $800 into over $1 million on Robinhood's brand new blockchain
Robinhood's blockchain went live on July 1 to move stocks onchain. Its first breakout hit is a memecoin named after t…
XRP Ledger’s new upgrade is here. But not everyone’s on board yet
The new software leads among the network's validators, yet by node count it sits behind the older v3.1.3, and the sec…