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For a few surreal moments on Oct. 15, the Ethereum blockchain seemed to host the financial equivalent of a dream.
Paxos, the issuer behind PayPal’s stablecoin PYUSD, accidentally minted $300 trillion worth of tokens, which is roughly 300 times the global GDP, before burning them just as fast.
The minting, visible on Ethereum’s public ledger, sent analysts, traders, and bots into overdrive.
Within...
Earlier this week, Roger Ver entered a deferred-prosecution agreement that ended his April 2024 indictment on mail fraud, tax evasion, and false-return charges.
Ver, also known as “Bitcoin Jesus,” admitted he willfully failed to report all his Bitcoin (BTC) holdings when he renounced US citizenship in 2014, paid $49.93 million in back taxes, penalties, and interest, and walked away without prison...
Nansen and Sanctum have launched a new liquid staking framework on Solana designed to make staking SOL as easy as swapping a token.
The system, dubbed the “universal staking router”, links multiple liquid staking tokens (LSTs) such as mSOL, jitoSOL, and bSOL into one standardized route.
Instead of users choosing individual validators or juggling different staking pools, Sanctum automatically...
Ethereum investment today has two major paths: direct ownership or derivative assets such as an ETF. The former offers sovereignty and control while the latter has its own benefits like leverage and tactical flexibility. There being two paths implies that there is no universal ETH strategy: the choice has to be made with timeline, capital, and risk tolerance in mind.
Therefore, the following is...
Ethereum is picking up speed again, not in price charts where it is currently struggling, but in the silent machinery beneath it.
Two parallel breakthroughs, one on the protocol layer and the other in cryptography, are redefining how fast and how light the world’s most-used blockchain can run.
Together, they sketch a future where anyone, from institutions to small-time validators, can participate...
The United States could still claim another $2 billion worth of Bitcoin linked to the defunct LuBian mining pool, despite already announcing the largest crypto seizure in its history.
On October 15, blockchain investigator Sani reported that nearly 16,237 BTC, worth around $1.8 billion at current prices, remains in motion across addresses linked to LuBian.
These include:...
Bitcoin price traded near $110,000 today as ETF flow streaks and the $107,000 support take focus.
Spot ETF demand remains the pivot. BlackRock’s IBIT is approaching $100 billion in assets, roughly 799,000 BTC, as the largest U.S. fund complex continues to concentrate supply.
U.S. spot products printed fresh net inflows of $102 million yesterday and just two days of outflows over the last 10 days...
Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 opens perpetual futures listing to anyone willing to stake $20 million. The question isn’t whether this democratizes the DeFi, but whether the safeguards can handle what comes next.
Hyperliquid launched HIP-3 on mainnet in October 2025, introducing a model where any builder can deploy perpetual futures markets without committee approval.
Deployers must stake 500,000 HYPE...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams just built a new power center for crypto inside City Hall. On Oct. 14, he signed Executive Order 57 and created the Office of Digital Assets and Blockchain Technology, a unit that sits in the Mayor’s Office, reports to the city CTO, and is led by Moises Rendon.
City Hall calls it the nation’s first municipal office focused on digital assets. The order takes effect...
Ant Group is betting that the next leap in digital finance will not happen in a bank but on Ethereum.
On Oct. 14, the Chinese fintech giant behind Alipay’s 1.4 billion-user payment network launched Jovay, a new Layer-2 (L2) blockchain built atop Ethereum to move real-world assets (RWAs) on-chain at institutional scale.
What is Jovay?
Ant Digital, the blockchain division of Ant Group, describes...