Blockchain

Key takeaways:  Ripple is spending about $4 billion to combine prime trading, treasury tools, payments and custody into a single integrated setup. RLUSD trials aim to settle real card payments and corporate payouts onchain, then […]

The United Arab Emirates has made the first transaction with its central bank digital currency in the first major update to the project since it was announced in March. The United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of […]

Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining company CleanSpark is raising capital to expand its mining and data center operations, as major miners pivot toward artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. CleanSpark announced a $1.15 billion senior convertible note offering on […]

What is the “Christmas Rally?” The Christmas rally, also known as the “Santa Claus rally,” refers to a recurring pattern in which crypto markets tend to rise during the final weeks of December and early […]

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 […]