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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…
Crypto rails made prediction markets global, gambling laws may make them local again
South Korean police opened the country's first illegal gambling probe into domestic Polymarket users on Jun. 5, targe…
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 …
CLARITY Act chances of passage this year falls to 60%, Galaxy Digital says
The CLARITY Act, the crypto industry’s biggest bill in Congress, is losing momentum just weeks after clearing a key…
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.
A little-known 1,250% rule could lock US banks out of Bitcoin
A group of Republican senators is warning US bank regulators that a little-known capital rule could effectively keep …
Cardano founder floats splitting his own blockchain after warning more apps will die
Charles Hoskinson raised the possibility of splitting Cardano after the collapse of one of its best-known ecosystem t…
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.
A stablecoin tied to Strategy stock depegs putting a new DeFi dollar risk in focus as Bitcoin sells off
Apyx's apxUSD fell below its dollar reference on June 4 as Bitcoin traded near $63,000, putting DeFi dollar peg risk …
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…
A 2011 physical Bitcoin loaded with 25 BTC was just unlocked during the $62k selloff
A Casascius coin tied to 25 BTC moved this week, converting a 2011 physical Bitcoin artifact into spendable BTC durin…
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…
Travala debuts agentic AI travel protocol with gasless USDC payments on Base
Travala launched an agentic AI travel protocol on Base supporting gasless USDC hotel bookings and AI-assisted payment…
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.
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…