Blockchain

Opinion by: Agata Ferreira, assistant professor at the Warsaw University of Technology A new consensus is forming across the Web3 world. For years, privacy was treated as a compliance problem, liability for developers and at […]

Balancer suffered one of the largest decentralized finance (DeFi) exploits on Monday, with more than $116 million in staked Ether and liquidity pool tokens drained from Balancer v2 contracts and several forks.  The decentralized exchange […]

Key takeaways Mastercard is in talks to buy Zero Hash, following earlier interest in BVNK, in a push toward 24/7 stablecoin settlement. The deals could give Mastercard a turnkey onchain payments stack, accelerating its move […]

Opinion by: Neeraj Srivastava, chief technology officer at MNEE When they first emerged, stablecoins were pitched as a revolution in payments. Traditional banking rails often take one to four days to settle debit card transactions […]

Key takeaways: A sharp Bitcoin decline often triggers systemic contagion, driving altcoins lower through both liquidity and confidence channels. During crises, the market tends to view crypto as a single risk asset rather than valuing […]

Opinion by: Morgan Krupetsky, vice president of Onchain Finance at Ava Labs On the heels of the GENIUS Act’s passing, the next era of stablecoin usage is being driven by a growing cohort of fintechs […]

Opinion by: Ram Kumar, core contributor at OpenLedger The crypto industry spent a decade evangelizing decentralization. At the same time, AI companies assembled the most valuable monopolies since Standard Oil, and they’re data monopolies that […]

Opinion by: Bill Laboon, vice president of Ecosystem at the Web3 Foundation Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, recently showed a moment of humanity in a tech world that often promises too much, too fast. He […]

Opinion by: Nic Puckrin, founder of CoinBureau  The largest liquidation event in the history of the crypto market, which wiped out at least $19 billion in long positions after US President Donald Trump announced punitive […]

Australia’s corporate regulator has released updated guidance on digital assets, which blockchain executives have welcomed, while airing concerns on the speedy issuance of licenses. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission updated its Info Sheet 225 […]