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Tech

Ethereum Foundation leadership shake-up: Tomasz Stańczak out as co-executive director

Stańczak came aboard in 2025 after the exit of longtime chief Aya Miyaguchi amid criticism the foundation wasn’t doing enough to push the Ethereum ecosystem.

Tomasz K. Stańczak and Hsiao-Wei Wang

Finance

ETHZilla prepares for takeoff: How you can now own a piece of a jet engine for just $100

ETHZilla unveiled a tokenized aviation asset, Eurus Aero Token I, offering accredited investors access to lease income from two commercial jet engines.

Plane in the air (Artturi Jalli/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Tom Lee says stop timing the bottom and start buying the dip

Thomas Lee, speaking on stage at Hong Kong Consensus 2026, said investors should be looking at opportunities as crypto is in the midst of a "mini winter."

Thomas Lee, chairman of BitMine and CIO of Fundstrat, on the main stage during Consensus Hong Kong 2026 (David Paul Morris/Consensus)

Finance

MrBeast's finance bet could become the new generation's Schwab, Robinhood, Tom Lee says

The BitMine chairman said at Hong Kong Consensus 2026 that MrBeast acquiring neobank Step could win over a new generation of investors to crypto.

Tom Lee Consensus Hong Kong 2026

Finance

Robinhood starts testing its own blockchain as crypto and tokenization push deepens

The Robinhood Chain, built on Ethereum-based Arbitrum, aims to become key plumbing for around-the-clock trading and plugging tokenized stocks into DeFi.

Robinhood Senior Vice President Johann Kerbrat (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Vitalik Buterin outlines how Ethereum could play a key role in the future of AI

In a post on X revisiting ideas he first outlined two years ago, the co-founder of Ethereum argues that the push toward artificial general intelligence often resembles the kind of unchecked speed and scale the blockchain was created to challenge.

Vitalik Buterin

Tech

MegaETH debuts mainnet as Ethereum scaling debate heats up

The project, which had pitched itself as a layer-2 “real-time blockchain" targeting more than 100,000 transactions per second, would make onchain interactions feel closer to traditional web apps than today’s crypto networks.

A group of people wear MegaETH branded caps (MegaLabs)

Markets

Tom Lee’s Bitmine Immersion added 40,613 ether last week as prices crashed

The firm's total ETH holdings top 4.3 million tokens worth about $8.7 billion at the current price just above $2,000.

Tom Lee of Bitmine. (CoinDesk)

Finance

Tom Lee's Bitmine now $8 billion underwater as ether tumbles below $2,000

Despite its mounting losses and plunging share price, the ether treasury firm says it's under no pressure to sell its holdings.

Tom Lee

Videos

Bitcoin crashes below $70K, what's next?

Bitcoin has tumbled below $70,000, pushing market sentiment into "extreme fear." But the pain might not be over: Stifel analysts are predicting a potential crash all the way to $38,000, citing a "Benjamin Button" reversal in Bitcoin's relationship with the dollar. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

Bitcoin crashes below $70K, what's next?