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Ethereum’s $1,500 test shows how quickly Wall Street’s crypto trade has turned
Ethereum’s slide to its lowest level in more than a year is testing the Wall Street trade that brought the token de…
DeFi’s old hack vectors are fading – But the new risk can hit six chains at once
Decentralized finance has gotten a lot safer over the past six years, and a new review of protocol losses from 2020 t…
AI’s power race is shifting leverage from chipmakers like NVIDIA to the grid
AI has hit an electricity problem. Running it takes staggering amounts of power; demand in the US is climbing faster …
Ethereum Foundation cuts and departures aren't a crisis, Joe Lubin says
The Consensys leader told CoinDesk the Ethereum Foundation's role should be narrower and more focused on stewarding t…
A needed $900B Treasury cash rebuild could quietly drain the liquidity Bitcoin needs
Bitcoin traders have spent the past week bracing for the wrong kind of surprise, watching rate-cut bets evaporate as …
Hyperliquid’s UK warning reveals the regulatory test behind its Wall Street push
Hyperliquid’s rapid growth has drawn a warning from Britain’s financial regulator, adding a consumer-protection c…
AI’s $800 billion spending boom is becoming Bitcoin’s Fed problem
For the better part of two years, Wall Street has treated AI as the most bullish trade on the board, a growth engine …
May jobs report explained: Why 172,000 jobs means higher rates, pricier loans, and a Bitcoin drop
The US economy added 172,000 jobs in May, more than double the 80,000 that Wall Street economists had expected, and t…
Researcher who found Zcash's bug with AI adds Monero to his audit queue
Taylor Hornby, who uncovered the Orchard flaw that sent Zcash down 38%, says other privacy coins are on his list too.
Crypto exchanges are losing retail traders but are filling the gap with Wall Street-style bets
Crypto exchanges are seeing the weakest retail-driven activity in years, but some of the biggest platforms are findin…
Zcash Bug Crisis Shows Privacy Cuts Both Ways, Experts Say
Fallout from a bug that enabled undetectable Zcash counterfeiting shows that privacy can sometimes present tradeoffs,…
AI exposed a massive flaw in top crypto network and experts warn banks could be next
After an AI model helped uncover a four-year-old flaw in Zcash, security researchers warn that similar bugs may be hi…
Bitcoin traders blamed Saylor’s 32 BTC sale but larger selling pressure built elsewhere
Bitcoin traders have identified Michael Saylor as a new suspect in the latest sell-off, while the numbers tell a diff…
Bitcoin price craters to $60,000 as BTC bulls get jobs report they were hoping to avoid
The May payrolls beat was hawkish enough to pressure crypto, while government hiring and cooler yearly wage growth ke…
AI-assisted Zcash flaw exposes the supply integrity gap an emergency fork could not fully close
The exploit that nearly broke Zcash originated inside the zero-knowledge proof circuit that powers Orchard, Zcash's n…
Live updates: bitcoin falls below $62,000 ahead of jobs data as Zcash bug rocks crypto
Zcash plummeted 40% after Shielded Labs revealed a major bug that went undetected for 4 years.
Zcash tumbles 50% as Hayes exits bag over unverifiable counterfeiting risk
The Zcash vulnerability highlights the critical need for robust security measures in cryptocurrency systems to mainta…
Zcash loses over $5 billion after AI finds 4-year bug that could have created fake hidden coins
Zcash lost more than $5 billion in market value after its developers, using Anthropic's Claude AI, discovered a lon…
Bitcoin crashed and flushed leverage out, but is the bottom here yet?
Bitcoin just tested an intraday low of $61,349, triggered roughly $1.76 billion in liquidations with long positions a…
Bitcoin in danger of dropping to $60,000, with Zcash bulls turning their backs on ZEC
AI bets are recording rapid profit-taking as Broadcom as outlook for AI-chip sales fell short of high expectations, d…
Chainalysis says ‘top-tier’ gray market peptide vendors turn to bitcoin and stablecoins
“To scale, the gray-market peptide trade adopted cryptocurrency as its backbone,” Chainalysis said in a report.
Bitcoin’s selloff is creating the short-heavy setup that could reverse it fast
Bitcoin is enduring a multi-front assault on its spot market liquidity as exchange-traded funds, short-term speculato…
Bitcoin’s $63k slide shows ETF demand fighting AI equities for dollar liquidity
Bitcoin’s relationship with the S&P 500 has stopped behaving like a simple correlation trade at exactly the wrong t…
Not all Ethereum layer 2s are dying, but many general-purpose chains no longer have a reason to exist
In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we're looking at the state of the Ethereum layer-2 ecosystem.
Immunefi says DeFi is ‘getting safer’ as exploit losses fall 74% from 2022 peak amid AI-driven security arms race
DeFi exploit losses fell 74% from the 2022 peak to $680 million in 2025, according to Immunefi, amid structural secur…
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson takes “a break” – exposing who really controls ADA’s next move
Charles Hoskinson has announced that he is “taking a break” from the pressure around Cardano after an emotional p…
Zcash was rumored to have stopped working – then it became crypto’s only winner
Zcash became the subject of a brief market scare after block explorers appeared to show that the privacy-focused bloc…
Banks pushed Congress to kill stablecoin yield with CLARITY Act – Coinbase may have found the loophole
For traditional US banks, the CLARITY Act was intended as a firewall that effectively barred crypto companies from of…
Walrus Memory Enables AI Agents to ‘Actually Learn About Us’: Mysten Labs Co-Founder
With its new portable memory layer, Walrus Memory lets AI agents carry context across apps, sessions and providers—…
Mt. Gox-linked wallets moved 10,422 BTC, worth roughly $739 million as BTC price slides
Mt. Gox moved more than $700 million worth of Bitcoin while the market was already under stress, giving traders a fam…