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A rain-soaked table holds a discarded event badge as police lights flash near a major venue, reflecting security fears after violent attacks on crypto holders forced a cancellation

Two major crypto events canceled after city hit by 18 violent physical attacks on crypto holders amid market downturn

Organizers blame a “market collapse” for the sudden shutdown, but a string of brutal kidnappings and home invasions across France suggests the risks of being seen in public have changed.

4 weeks ago

Staking

A sudden shift in Ethereum staking is draining billions from exchanges toward a new corporate elite

Ethereum’s stablecoin and tokenized Treasury base gives corporate ETH treasuries a clearer institutional case than simple crypto exposure.

1 week ago

Industrial connectors aligning as a sealed pipeline comes together, symbolizing Cardano integrating Circle’s $70 billion USDC stablecoin into its on-chain ecosystem

Stablecoins

Cardano secures $70B liquidity injection that finally solves the network’s biggest missing piece for investors

Cardano targets closing liquidity gaps with USDCx, fostering competitive pricing and deeper lending markets in its DeFi sector.

1 week ago

A metal Ethereum emblem bent inside a workshop jig, surrounded by tools and worn surfaces, symbolizing Vitalik Buterin’s admitted design mistake and questions about Ethereum risk

Technology

Is your Ethereum at risk? Vitalik Buterin admits his biggest design mistake since 2017

Ethereum co-founder abandons old Ethereum vision as hidden censorship risks threaten to trap everyday user funds.

2 weeks ago

Quantum

Ethereum’s massive fee shock: New post-quantum signatures are 40x larger, threatening to crush network throughput and user costs

Coinbase, Solana, Polkadot, and Bitcoin all moved on PQ planning, but wallet UX and aggregation may decide the winner.

2 weeks ago

DeFi

Ethereum may finally kill “trust me” wallets in 2026, and Vitalik says the fix is already shipping

Helios-verified RPC and the EF’s Kohaku aim to make local verification the default, not an optional power-user hack.

3 weeks ago

CFTC seal outside a government building as Tennessee officials and traders argue on the steps, symbolizing the clash over who regulates prediction markets and refunds

Regulation

Kalshi and Polymarket face a “sports gambling” probe that could void your trades and shut down the market

Prediction markets say they’re federally regulated finance; Tennessee says they’re unlicensed sports betting.

3 weeks ago

Analysis

Ethereum’s surprising usage drop suggests the network solved the wrong problem with Fusaka upgrade

Missed slots rise from ~0.5% baseline to as high as 1.79% at max capacity, hinting the edge isn’t production-ready.

4 weeks ago

Technician installs a glowing module into an Ethereum machine as Bitcoin hardware looms behind, symbolizing how Ethereum addressed a scaling issue Bitcoin avoids on its base layer

Web3

Ethereum just solved a critical problem Bitcoin doesn’t want to fix on its own network – but why?

Ethereum co-founder says "PeerDAS" and zk-proofs have finally broken the scaling ceiling, leaving Bitcoin’s conservative design looking intentionally slow.

1 month ago

Polymarket seems riddled with insider trading yet a massive Dow Jones partnership just validated prediction markets

Memecoins 1 month ago

Ethereum isn’t chasing 5.3% yield, Vitalik says – but the outage risk is over 5× bigger than regulation shocks

Analysis 1 month ago

Hundreds of MetaMask wallets drained: What to check before you ‘update’

Wallets 1 month ago