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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…
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…
Bitcoin miners' AI pivot faces $50 billion reality check, says VanEck
VanEck says investors are shifting focus from contract announcements to execution risk as miners chase AI revenue.
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.
Nvidia’s $20 billion debt boom reinforces Bitcoin miners' AI pivot
Nvidia’s planned bond sale reinforces booming AI infrastructure demand, strengthening the case for Bitcoin miners p…
‘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% As Miners Get Rare Relief
Bitcoin’s latest difficulty adjustment gave miners some breathing room after a slower-than-usual period for the net…
Bitcoin mining difficulty drops 10% in 11th largest downward adjustment
Bitcoin mining difficulty has undergone its second-largest downward difficulty adjustment this year, following Februa…
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…
Ethereum can quantum-proof accounts for just 7 cents, says Ethereum's Kohaku lead
The SPHINCS- proposal aims to reduce the cost of post-quantum signature verification on Ethereum while the network wo…
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…
The U.S. government is betting $2 Billion on quantum computing, and the defense side can't keep up
Pruden argues that to defend against a quantum computer capable of cryptographically relevant operations, we need pos…
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…