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What Is Robinhood Chain? The Ethereum Layer-2 Network for Tokenized Stocks

Robinhood Chain is an Ethereum layer-2 network built with Arbitrum technology for tokenized assets, crypto apps, and on-chain financial products.

What’s on the Ethereum Roadmap: Glamsterdam, Hegota and Beyond

Ethereum has rolled out a steady stream of upgrades since 2022. Here’s how those changes fit together—and what’s still ahead.

Ethereum News

Aug 11, 2026

Coins

Russia Approves Trading of Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT—But No XRP

Russia's central bank has proposed its first framework for letting ordinary investors trade crypto on public markets. The Bank of Russia published a draft directive on Aug. 11 that would let non-qualified investors buy digital assets through brokers, crypto exchanges or managers—within a strict annual ceiling. "We're setting a limit on the purchase of cryptocurrencies for non-qualified investors," the central bank said in a separate notice. "Through each intermediary—a broker, crypto exchanger...

by Jose Antonio Lanz · 3 min read

Aug 11, 2026

Coins

Ravencoin Crashes 20% as Critical Exploit Threatens to Rollback Network

The developer behind the Ravencoin cryptocurrency network said Tuesday the blockchain may erase several days of transactions after attackers exploited a flaw in the software that secures the network. As a result, the native token of the network has shed tens of millions in value over the last several hours, crashing 20%. The project disclosed the bug in a network notice posted to X, warning that deposits, withdrawals, and payments made since Friday are at risk of reversal. The vulnerability s...

by Jose Antonio Lanz · 4 min read

Aug 11, 2026

Business

eToro Agrees to Acquire TradeZero in $231M US Expansion, Stock Tanks 10%

eToro said Tuesday it will buy TradeZero, a US-focused online brokerage that serves active traders, in a deal worth up to $231 million. The agreement, announced by eToro Group Ltd., deepens the platform's push into the American equities market. TradeZero, founded in 2015, runs commission-free U.S. stock and options trading through its broker-dealer subsidiaries. For eToro, the appeal is the plumbing: next-generation trading platforms, broker-dealer infrastructure, an engaged trader community, an...

by Jose Antonio Lanz · 3 min read

Aug 11, 2026

Law and Order

North Korea Now Leans on Crime Networks to Launder Stolen Crypto: RUSI

North Korea is increasingly pushing stolen cryptocurrency through the same money-laundering networks used by scam syndicates and organised crime, blurring the trail investigators follow, according to a research paper published this month by the Royal United Services Institute, a British defence and security think tank. The regime stole at least $2.8 billion in virtual assets between January 2024 and September 2025, funds the paper says are assumed to support its weapons programme. Authors Alliso...

by Decrypt Agent · 3 min read

Aug 11, 2026

Business

Coinbase Opens UK Derivatives Trading With Up to 50x Leverage

Coinbase is opening derivatives trading to professional investors in the UK, announcing on Tuesday more than 170 contracts spanning crypto, commodities, equities and foreign exchange, with leverage of up to 50 times. The offering covers three contract types, according to a post by UK and international vice president Keith Grose. Perpetuals span the full 170-plus assets, carry no expiry date, trade around the clock and go up to 50x leverage. Derivatives are coming to Coinbase in the UK 🇬🇧 Elig...

by Decrypt Agent · 3 min read

Aug 11, 2026

Law and Order

UK Lawmakers Write to Bank CEOs Over Crypto Account Refusals

The co-chairs of Parliament's Crypto and Digital Assets All-Party Parliamentary Group have written to the chief executives of every major UK bank, asking them to explain how they treat crypto and digital asset firms. The letter, sent Tuesday by Labour MP Gurinder Singh Josan and Lord Vaizey of Didcot, a former digital economy minister, says the group has heard "repeated instances where crypto and digital asset firms have struggled to open accounts with UK banks," alongside reports that several b...

by Decrypt Agent · 3 min read

Aug 10, 2026

Coins

Vitalik Buterin Says Ethereum Is Betting Its Future on Quantum Security and AI

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says quantum resistance, privacy, and AI-assisted security have become greater priorities for Ethereum since he published his 2023 roadmap. In a post on X on Monday, Buterin said he updated his 2023 roadmap to compare its original goals with Ethereum’s current “Strawmap”—a working outline of the network’s long-term technical priorities. “What's most striking, however, is that some completely new things are in the strawmap that are not in this diagram, becaus...

by Jason Nelson · 2 min read

Aug 10, 2026

Business

Brazil's $319B Crypto Market Faces October Licensing Deadline: CertiK

Brazil is one of the world's largest crypto markets, and its regulator has just set a hard date for pulling it under formal supervision. A new report from blockchain security firm CertiK lays out what the rules require and why they matter for the companies—and the users—inside that market. Brazil ranks fifth globally for real crypto adoption, according to Chainalysis data cited in the report, and received $318.8 billion in on-chain value over the twelve months to June 2025. Nearly a third of all...

by Jose Antonio Lanz · 5 min read

Aug 10, 2026

Opinion

Web3 Is Building Financial Freedom Only for People Who Can Afford Mistakes

Web3 presents itself as a more inclusive financial system, open to anyone with a smartphone and internet access. And that's significant progress for sure, but just because we have access doesn't imply it's truly safe or practical to utilize. A user can still lose funds by selecting the wrong network, overpaying on fees or delivering assets to an unsupported destination. When the same errors are repeated regularly, however, they're also a sign of a product problem, even if the industry calls this...

by Pauline Shangett · 7 min read

Aug 10, 2026

Coins

Hackers Drain $8 Million From Crypto Exchange Across Two Blockchains

An attacker drained more than $8 million from crypto platform Coinsbuy across the Tron and Ethereum networks on Sunday before moving most of the stolen funds, according to an analysis by blockchain investigator BlockWatchdog. In a report posted on X, BlockWatchdog said the attack began on Tron with a 5 USDT test transaction. Minutes later, more than 6 million USDT was drained from eight Coinsbuy wallets. On Ethereum, another 1.89 million USDT and 77 ETH were taken from three wallets. “On Augus...

by Jason Nelson · 3 min read

Aug 10, 2026

Coins

Tom Lee's Bitmine Buys $14M in Ethereum as Cash Falls to $104M

Ethereum treasury company Bitmine Immersion Technologies said Monday it bought 7,391 ETH over the past week, worth about $14 million, taking its holdings to 5,805,238 ETH as of Friday evening. The company bought 10,399 ETH the week before. Total crypto, cash and what the firm calls "moonshot" investments came to $11.6 billion, up from $11.3 billion. Most of that gain came from price, with ETH up 2.6% over the week to $1,928, adding around $280 million to the value of a stack that grew by $14 mil...

by Decrypt Agent · 3 min read

Aug 10, 2026

Law and Order

Bybit Sues North Korea Over $1.5B Hack, Wins Order Freezing Assets

Crypto exchange Bybit has filed a civil lawsuit against North Korea over the theft of $1.5 billion from the exchange in February 2025, and secured a court order freezing stolen assets that investigators have identified. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, names the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, its Reconnaissance General Bureau and the Lazarus Group, the state-linked hacking outfit U.S. authorities blame for the attack. Unidentified individuals and e...

by Decrypt Agent · 2 min read

Aug 8, 2026

Law and Order

Senate Keeps Clarity Act Alive With Crypto Bill Vote Set for September

The U.S. Senate has taken its first formal step toward voting on the Clarity Act, with leadership moving early Saturday to tee up a vote on the crypto market-structure bill and lock in a September date. Senate Majority Leader John Thune filed the motion to proceed on the bill, opening the multi-step cloture process the chamber uses to push contested legislation past its 60-vote threshold. The filing came too late to squeeze in a vote before senators leave for their August recess, but it queues u...

by Decrypt Staff · 3 min read

Aug 8, 2026

Business

Robinhood Crypto Chief Explains Why There Are 'Two Wolves' Inside Robinhood Chain

Robinhood Chain wants to be a financial hub for the suits just as much as for the degens. That’s essentially the meaning behind Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev’s “two wolves” post on X, which the company’s head of crypto, Johann Kerbrat, says sums up what Robinhood is going for with the launch of its own Ethereum layer-2 network: a balance between serious products—tokenized equities and derivatives contracts—and the memes that bring in attention, fun, and users. “We want to show customers that we car...

by Jason Nelson · 3 min read

Aug 7, 2026

DeFi

Tokenized Asset Deposits Tripled to $7.4B as DeFi Shrank: CoinShares

Deposits of tokenized real-world assets into decentralized lending platforms and exchanges more than tripled over the past year, climbing from $2.3 billion to $7.4 billion, while total deposits across DeFi fell by approximately 15%. The figures come from The Growth of Hybrid Finance, published Thursday by asset manager CoinShares and on-chain data provider Token Terminal. It is the pair's second joint report, covering the second quarter of 2025 through the second quarter of 2026, with all data s...

by Decrypt Agent · 3 min read

Aug 7, 2026

Law and Order

MyTrade Founder Fined $10K Over Bots That Wash Traded 60 Cryptocurrencies

The founder of crypto market maker MyTrade has avoided prison and been fined $10,000 for running a wash trading service that generated millions of dollars in fake daily volume across roughly 60 cryptocurrencies. Liu Zhou, 41, a Canadian citizen and Chinese national, was sentenced in Boston federal court on Thursday by U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley, who imposed no custodial term, Law360 reported. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit market manipulation and wire fraud after being charged i...

by Decrypt Agent · 2 min read

Aug 7, 2026

Law and Order

Senate Punts Clarity Act Vote to September as Democrats Hold Out

The U.S. Senate will not vote on the Clarity Act before its August recess, pushing the crypto market structure bill to September and into the closing weeks before midterm campaigning consumes the calendar. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) confirmed the delay late Thursday. "The Dems are insistent on no Clarity vote," he said in remarks posted by his press office, adding that he had worked with the bill's sponsors and that Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) "was great, and we're getting that q...

by Decrypt Agent · 3 min read

Aug 6, 2026

Business

Cathie Wood's Ark Invest Makes SpaceX, Circle Top Holdings After Latest Buying Spree

SpaceX and Circle are among Cathie Wood's largest investments, according to an Ark Innovation ETF (ARKK) holdings report published Thursday. SpaceX is ARKK's fifth-largest holding, with a market value of nearly $282 million and a 4.73% portfolio weighting. Circle ranks eighth at about $233 million, accounting for 3.90% of the fund. The two companies join Tesla, Coinbase, Robinhood, OpenAI, Bitmine, and Palantir among ARKK's largest positions, reflecting Ark's continued focus on artificial inte...

by Jason Nelson · 2 min read

Aug 6, 2026

Artificial Intelligence

MetaMask Launches Self-Custodial AI Wallet for Autonomous Crypto Trading

MetaMask on Thursday launched Agent Wallet, a self-custodial wallet that lets AI agents execute on-chain transactions within user-defined restrictions, expanding the company's push into AI-powered crypto trading. According to MetaMask, the wallet is aimed at traders and developers using AI agents to monitor markets, identify opportunities, and execute transactions autonomously. However, rather than giving an AI agent unrestricted access to a wallet, users can set spending caps, approve specifi...

by Jason Nelson · 2 min read

Aug 6, 2026

Law and Order

Scammers Pose as EU Regulators to Prey on MiCA Deadline Fallout

Fraudsters are impersonating European regulators and crypto exchanges to steal from customers caught in the shutdown of unlicensed firms, watchdogs across the bloc have told the Financial Times. Companies that missed the July 1 deadline to obtain a license under the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation are now operating illegally and must tell customers to withdraw or move their holdings. Only 323 firms appear on the register that the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU'...

by Decrypt Agent · 3 min read