Starknet Taps EY’s Nightfall for Institutional Privacy on Ethereum Rails
Starknet developer StarkWare has integrated EY’s Nightfall privacy protocol to let institutions run private payments and decentralized finance (DeFi) activity...
Blockchain News
Binance Rejects Claims of Iran-Linked Transactions and Staff Firings
Crypto exchange Binance pushed back against a recent report by Fortune, rejecting allegations that it enabled sanctions-violating transactions tied to...
Onchain Public Benefits are the Future but Challenges Remain, CEO Says
Blockchain technology is an effective medium for administering social benefit programs, but key compliance challenges remain, according to Julie Myers...
Israel Arrests Two Over Polymarket Trades on Iran Strikes
Israeli authorities have arrested and indicted two people for allegedly using secret information to place bets on the predictions market...
UK Launches Blockchain Digital Bond Pilot With HSBC Orion
The United Kingdom’s government has appointed HSBC’s tokenization platform to power a pilot issuance of digital government bonds, known as...
Ault Blockchain Debuts Public Testnet, Rejects Traditional Token Sale Model
Ault Capital Group has launched the public testnet of Ault Blockchain, a layer one (L1) network built for trading, settlement...
UK Central Bank to Launch Onchain Settlement Infrastructure Pilot
The Bank of England has launched a new industry experimentation initiative to explore how tokenized assets could be settled using synchronized, atomic...
NFT Market Cap Returns to Pre-Hype Levels Near $1.5B
The global non-fungible token (NFT) sector fell below $1.5 billion in total market capitalization, returning to levels last seen before...
Aster Launches Testnet for Layer-1 Blockchain, Teases Full Release in Q1
The Aster decentralized crypto exchange (DEX) and perpetual futures platform announced on Thursday that its layer-1 blockchain testnet is now...
Ethereum’s L2 Scaling Story Gets a Rewrite From Vitalik Buterin
Vitalik Buterin is openly challenging long-held assumptions about Ethereum’s layer-two ( L2) strategy, arguing that the original vision for L2s...
How World Liberty’s $3.4B USD1 Stablecoin Powers Onchain Lending Markets
Key takeawaysWorld Liberty Financial has entered DeFi lending with the launch of World Liberty Markets, an onchain borrowing and lending...
Crypto Bridge Protocol CrossCurve Exploited for $3M
Update (Feb. 2, 12:20 am UTC): This article has been updated to add a post by CrossCurve CEO Boris Povar.Crypto...
Why Proof-of-Reserves Isn’t Enough to Trust Crypto Exchanges
What is proof-of-reserves? At its core, proof-of-reserves is a public demonstration that a custodian holds the assets it claims to...
Dakota Launches Stablecoin Platform for Enterprise Payments and Treasury
Financial technology company Dakota launched a stablecoin infrastructure platform as more enterprises look to adopt digital dollars without taking on...
The Next Alpha Is Onchain
Opinion by: Annabelle Huang, co-founder and CEO of Altius LabsFor centuries, the world’s traders and speculators have pursued one thing...
Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 Open Interest Notched $793M ATH On Monday
Layer-1 blockchain network Hyperliquid has seen an explosion in trading through “Builder-Deployed Perpetuals” this month, hitting a new all-time high...
In The Battle Of Chains, Distribution Is King
Opinion by: Marcin Kaźmierczak, co-founder of RedStoneThe fight for dominance in blockchain won’t be won by whoever has the lowest...
Tezos Upgrades to Tallinn, Block Times Fall to 6 Seconds
Tezos, a layer-1 proof-of-stake blockchain network, implemented its latest protocol upgrade, Tallinn, on Saturday, which reduced block times on the...
Ethereum Foundation Forms Dedicated Post-Quantum Security Team
The Ethereum Foundation has made post-quantum security a central focus of the network’s long-term roadmap, announcing the formation of a...
Restaking Promises Yield But Delivers Only Stacked Risk
Opinion by: Laura Wallendal, co-founder and CEO of AcreRestaking is often heralded as the next big thing in decentralized finance...
A7A5 Stablecoin Processed $100B Before Sanctions Clampdown, Elliptic Says
A ruble-backed stablecoin linked to sanctioned Russian financial networks processed more than $100 billion in onchain transactions in less than...
Crypto’s Next Battle Is Privacy: Regulators Face Chicken-Egg Dilemma
Financial privacy is becoming the next structural battle in crypto, and neither governments nor the technology are fully prepared for...
