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Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade activates Dec. 3, deploying a suite of changes designed to increase rollup throughput, tighten gas markets, and add native support for passkey-style signatures.
The fork introduces PeerDAS data-availability sampling, doubles the default block gas limit, and prepares the network for blob-only parameter expansions scheduled for later this month and January.
Fusaka is named...
Vanguard caves on crypto to retain clients as rivals win flows — opens $9.3T platform to crypto ETFs
On Dec. 2, Vanguard will reportedly open its massive brokerage platform to spot Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and Solana exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
This strategic volte-face ends the asset manager’s steadfast isolation from the $3 trillion digital asset market.
For years, Vanguard stood as the most prominent holdout of the crypto space, driven by a philosophy that viewed the high volatility of...
OpenEden has closed a new strategic investment round backed by some of the most influential names in blockchain and institutional finance, including Ripple, Lightspeed Faction, Gate Ventures, FalconX, Anchorage Digital Ventures, Flowdesk, P2 Ventures, Selini Capital, Kaia Foundation, and Sigma Capital.
The raise marks a significant milestone for the RWA tokenization platform as institutional...
Strategy Inc., the corporate Bitcoin vault formerly known as MicroStrategy, has signaled that the mechanics driving its rapid growth have hit a cyclical wall.
On Dec. 1, the Tysons Corner-based firm revealed that it was prioritizing a $1.44 billion cash reserve and providing investors with detailed parameters for potential asset sales. This represents a pragmatic evolution of its treasury...
Cardano is entering a very important phase in its development, as its founding institutions are attempting to deliver the core infrastructure that every major blockchain already treats as standard.
On Nov. 27, a new proposal sought community approval to allocate 70 million ADA tokens (worth about $30 million) to onboard tier-one stablecoins, custody providers, cross-chain bridges, pricing oracles...
Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin is rapidly expanding on Ethereum rather than the company’s native XRP Ledger (XRPL).
According to CryptoSlate data, RLUSD’s total circulating supply has surged to $1.26 billion within 12 months of its launch. Of this, roughly $1.03 billion, or 82% of the total supply, resides on Ethereum, while the $235 million balance is on XRPL.
Graph showing Ripple RLUSD supply on...
If you open your brokerage this year and a “Markets” tab seems to be sprouting unfamiliar yes/no questions (“Will the Fed cut rates in March?”, “Will a major ETF get approved this quarter?”), you wouldn’t necessarily be hallucinating. The recent regulatory green-light for Polymarket via a cleared path under its newest acquisition of an exchange and its clearinghouse means those kinds of event-...
The first thing many Ukrainians check in the morning is not Instagram or email, it is a war map. DeepStateMap.Live, a volunteer-built OSINT project, shows which villages are under occupation, where Ukrainian advances hold, and where the front looks fragile. It’s a survival tool as much as a news product, funded by donations and backed by a cooperation agreement with the Ministry of Defense to...
EXCLUSIVE: The quiet shift Bitfinex is driving that could finally give crypto markets real stability
When crypto sells off, the market doesn’t so much walk down the stairs as it slips on the first step and discovers there never were any handrails. Everyone knows why: perps are a stadium, options are a side alley, and insurance in a storm is hard to buy.
Paolo Ardoino, the CTO of Bitfinex, knows what the missing handrails are: credit, clearing, margin, and products professional traders actually...
The US government has opened a security review into Bitmain, the Beijing-based manufacturer that sells most of the world’s Bitcoin mining rigs. A months-long federal investigation, known internally as Operation Red Sunset, has been probing whether Bitmain’s machines can be remotely steered for spying or used to interfere with the American power grid. The question sounds abstract, the kind of...