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Grayscale is setting up a quarterly cash showdown between Ethereum and Solana staking
Proposed trust changes would require no-less-than-quarterly cash distributions, creating a common cadence without fix…
MetaMask code was open to a North Korea-linked contractor for a month before Consensys halted releases
Consensys found no compromised assets or data, no malicious code deployment and no user impact, but contractor access…
Bitcoin's biggest advocate, Michael Saylor, says new plan to clean up the blockchain is 'a bad idea'
Michael Saylor argues that a new proposal, BIP-110, to temporarily block "spam" data from the Bitcoin blockchain woul…
Bitcoin’s quantum problem gets a recovery tool, but not for Satoshi’s 1.1 million coins
Project Eleven says it has funded a proof that lets a wallet's own key-derivation path stand in as ownership after qu…
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…
BitMine Stock Slides Despite $73M Ethereum Treasury Purchase
BitMine Immersion Technologies has added a major Ethereum position to its balance sheet, but the market reaction show…
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…
Live markets: Bitcoin slips to $63,000 as the chip rout goes global
A deepening global selloff in chipmakers dragged risk assets lower, pulling bitcoin back from the $65,000 it reached …
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…
How prices from the future fooled a crypto oracle into paying out up to $24 million
Future-dated reports allegedly cleared an authorized signer check, while Ostium has yet to publish final loss account…
Crypto equities gained 23% while crypto tokens fell 36% this year – Is value shifting?
Bitwise reported that publicly traded crypto companies gained 23% in the first half of 2026, while crypto assets fell…
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…
Is using an old iPhone safer than a crypto hardware wallet? ZachXBT thinks so
ZachXBT recently argued that a dedicated iPhone offers better security than a hardware wallet, a line of reasoning th…
Live updates: ZachXBT calls hardware wallets complete garbage; BTC steady near $65,000
Blockchain investigator ZachXBT came down heavily on hardware wallets. BTC traded steady near $65,000 after South Kor…
US government sends $288M to Coinbase putting Bitcoin reserve rules into question
The transfer highlights unresolved custody rules, while the public evidence identifies a deposit rather than a govern…
Bitcoin miner AI pivot hits roadblock with New York 50 MW permit freeze
New York has become the first US state to impose a statewide moratorium on large new data centers, creating an early …
Bitcoin miner CleanSpark signed a $6.6B AI lease before securing the $2.1B required to build it
The 175 MW contract creates a long revenue path while funding terms remain undisclosed and missed milestones may redu…
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 …
US turns stablecoin issuer Tether into a financial weapon against Iran, freezing nearly $500 million
US authorities have used Tether's control over its dollar-linked stablecoin to freeze about $475 million connected to…
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…
Timelock Account Recovery Gives Ethereum Smart Accounts A Safer Backup Route
Timelock Account Recovery Gives Ethereum Smart Accounts A Safer Backup Route is a useful reminder that crypto coverag…
Bitcoin mining production slips in June for CleanSpark, BitFuFu and Canaan
CleanSpark, BitFuFu and Canaan reported lower bitcoin production in June despite mining difficulty dropping more than…
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.
Is a Bitcoin whale from 2018 about to cash in after awakening to transfer $188 million?
The 2,931 BTC balance moved twice and still sits in an unlabeled second-hop address with no outbound transaction. The…