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BlackRock has sharpened the staking posture for its iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHB), outlining a plan to keep most of the fund’s ETH staked and earning rewards rather than held in custody.
In its latest amended filing, the sponsor said that under normal market circumstances, it would seek to keep 70% to 95% of the fund’s ETH staked.
The remainder would sit in what it calls a Liquidity...
Russia’s recent messaging crackdown is the cleanest real-world stress test of decentralization in years, and it produced an awkward result.
Roskomnadzor began throttling Telegram on Feb. 10, citing “non-compliance.” Two days later, authorities fully blocked WhatsApp, removing its domains from Russia's national registry and forcing users toward VPNs or MAX, a state-backed messenger that critics...
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) has become the public market’s most widely traded Bitcoin proxy, using equity, convertible notes, and preferred stock to build a balance sheet dominated by the top crypto.
However, as Bitcoin trades near $68,000 and Strategy shares hover below $130, investors are paying closer attention to the mechanisms that allow the company to continue buying BTC without...
The Bitcoin “buy zone” meme just got real again, here’s what it means in the ETF era
A certain kind of Bitcoin post shows up right on schedule. It usually arrives right after price stops feeling fun.
This week it came from PricedinBTC, dressed up as a neat table titled “Forward Returns by Drawdown Level.”
The headline numbers do the heavy lifting, buying at a 50% drawdown supposedly delivers...
A botched home invasion in the Paris suburbs on Feb. 12 marked a tactical shift in crypto's physical-threat or “wrench attack” landscape.
The target, according to French media reports, was the CEO of Binance France. Binance confirmed an employee was targeted and said the employee and family are safe.
Two phones were stolen before the suspects were arrested at Lyon Perrache station. The assailants...
The fiscal mathematics of the United States are drifting toward a threshold that markets can no longer afford to ignore, and a level that, relative to GDP, hasn't transpired since the last world war.
Washington’s latest budgetary outlook suggests the nation is on a trajectory to accumulate nearly $64 trillion in federal debt over the next decade.
The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) most...
On some Ethereum L2s, bots now burn over half the gas just searching for MEV, and they don’t pay proportionally for it. That’s a scaling and market-fairness problem rooted in market structure.
The privacy conversation in crypto has finally escaped the “anonymous money” framing that dominated the last cycle. In early 2026, the urgency is economic and rooted in immediate financial realities.
The...
XRP is sliding even as the XRP Ledger (XRPL) rolls out features that supporters have long framed as a bridge to institutional adoption.
According to CryptoSlate's data, the token has been trading around $1.47, while a mix of fresh supply signals, cooling marginal demand, and broader risk-off behavior continues to pressure the price.
At the same time, banking giant Standard Chartered reportedly...
Bitcoin's recent price crash towards $60,000 did more than just shave billions off market capitalizations or liquidate leveraged positions.
It served as a massive, chaotic stress test that exposed a widening behavioral fracture between the two most dominant venues in the digital asset economy.
On one side stands Coinbase, the largest US exchange, where Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong has...
Aave Labs posted a governance proposal on Feb. 12 asking tokenholders to endorse a strategic package that would direct 100% of Aave-branded product revenue to the DAO treasury, formalize brand protection, and center the roadmap on Aave V4.
The initiative was named the “Aave Will Win Framework.”
The proposal hasn't been implemented yet, as an early governance temperature check. Yet, the public...