Vitalik Buterin announced his endorsement of Interfold, a privacy-preserving protocol optimized for on-chain voting and secret-ballot auctions that implements concepts he has advocated for nearly a...
Base, the Layer 2 blockchain incubated by Coinbase, activated its Azul network upgrade on mainnet this month, marking the chain’s first independent protocol upgrade and a...
A warning from one of decentralized finance’s (DeFi) early security figures has turned a difficult stretch of hacks into a broader test of how the industry...
Crypto liquidations reached $934.24 million in a 24-hour period, wiping out approximately 167,400 leveraged trading accounts. Bitcoin liquidations accounted for $363 million of the total, while...
Tempo, a Layer 1 blockchain incubated by Stripe, has processed 3.9 million transactions across 177,000 addresses since mainnet launched on March 18, according to data shared...
SoFi Technologies, a publicly traded US neobank, has made SoFiUSD available inside its banking app for 14.7 million members, the company said in a press release...
Aztec Labs has acquired Obsidion, the team behind ZKPassport, a privacy-preserving identity verification protocol built on zero-knowledge cryptography, according to a press release published Wednesday. Obsidion...
Cash App, the payments platform owned by Block, the financial technology company co-founded by Jack Dorsey, launched support for sending and receiving USDC on Wednesday, offering...
OpenZeppelin, a smart contract security firm whose libraries underpin most DeFi protocols, pushed back Tuesday against a viral post by its co-founder and former CTO declaring...
US commercial and industrial lending reached $2.89 trillion at commercial banks for the week ending May 13, up roughly $183 billion year-to-date and 8.19% above year-ago...
US commercial and industrial lending reached $2.89 trillion at commercial banks for the week ending May 13, up roughly $183 billion year-to-date and 8.19% above year-ago...
Polkadot’s governance has approved a proposal to establish a 10,000 DOT minimum self-stake requirement for validators. The approved upgrade introduces significant changes to the network’s staking...
A New York Times investigation has uncovered that officials at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) who questioned the agency’s approach to prediction markets were subsequently...
A New York Times investigation has uncovered that officials at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) who questioned the agency’s approach to prediction markets were subsequently...
Ethereum’s staking queue has grown to unprecedented levels, with 3,394,545 ETH waiting to be staked while only 64 ETH remains queued for unstaking, according to validator...
MicroStrategy, one of the world’s largest corporate holders of Bitcoin, announced this week that it purchased bonds instead of additional cryptocurrency. The move marks an unexpected...
Make CryptoSlate preferred on Socket’s May 24 disclosure of TrapDoor found more than 34 malicious packages and over 384 related versions spread across npm, PyPI, and...
Base announced the launch of Base MCP, a new gateway enabling AI agents to connect directly to user Base accounts and execute onchain transactions. The protocol...
Cardano’s Developer Experience Initiative has been ratified following a closely watched treasury vote, according to AdaStat data. The proposal, a treasury withdrawal request tied to developer...
The Ethereum Foundation’s Kohaku Initiative announced the release of its SDK for integrating privacy protocols into Ethereum wallets without intermediaries. The team achieved a major milestone...