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Bitcoin didn’t just cross $100,000—it cracked open the gates to a full-blown altcoin supercycle. After two years of sideways movement and market doubt, BTC’s breakout reignited risk appetite.
Ethereum surged. Solana soared. But it was meme coins that went parabolic. From Telegram raids to TikTok influencers, the floodgates reopened, and capital poured into every coin with a pulse and a punchline...
One of the more troubling cases of mistaken identity in recent crypto history shows how a respected white-hat hacker and former Yuga Labs security researcher was detained at the airport in 2023 under suspicion of being behind a sophisticated phishing attack that resulted in the theft of over $1.1 million in Bored Ape NFTs.
This incident raises many questions about the precision of law...
As the crypto market develops into a novel epoch of institutional cooperation and tangible usefulness, Ethereum is arising as the uncontested leader among alternative coins.
Already the second-largest digital asset by market capitalization, Ethereum’s network is rapidly becoming the very infrastructural backbone for a global financial world. And that momentum may soon drive its price past the...
Following a stormy but ultimately successful ascent, Bitcoin has regained a $2 trillion market cap — rejoining the global stage as one of the five most valuable financial assets on Earth.
Just weeks ago, it was barely holding on to the #7 spot, trailing in the wake of Meta and Berkshire Hathaway. Now, it has surged past those and other rivals to reclaim its lofty perch — ranking alongside such...
In a development that suggests a strong steer into the future of cross-chain finance, the liquid staking protocol StakeStone (formerly Staking Facilities) has struck a partnership with WLFI — the crypto project associated with Donald Trump — to generate robust liquidity for the stablecoin USD1.
The collaboration aims to build a solid bridge between real-world assets and decentralized finance,...
Ethereum’s enduring ambition to scale via Layer 2s (L2s) is now a reality, delivering speedy and low-cost transactions to users.
Yet, while rollups like Base amass millions of transaction fees, a new discussion is underway: are these L2s getting too rich — and thereby making the base layer more extractive?
Cointelegraph recently interviewed Tanay Ved, a researcher at CoinMetrics. The interview...
Even while much of the crypto market remains cautiously optimistic during times of macroeconomic uncertainty, BNB Chain is steadily solidifying its lead in both user activity and developer adoption.
With a presence that commands a growing share of on-chain activity and a dominant place among many of the tokens that are performing best, BNB Chain, alongside its Layer 2 counterpart opBNB, is...
In a market atmosphere where the noise from macroeconomic volatility, global uncertainty, and regulatory demands seems never-ending, an opportunity has arisen under the radar for Bitcoin.
It may seem like a faint plot point in the overarching Bitcoin story, but one with potential long-term consequences for the cryptocurrency. Over the past month, a cadre of institutional investors and large...
In its ongoing quest for truly workable scaling solutions and credible real-world use cases, the blockchain world has a tendency to get lost in all its noise and hype.
But one project within it has stepped quietly apart from the surprise and excitement to offer something concrete: BOB (Build on Bitcoin). It launched on May 1, 2024, and is busy redefining what it means to be a Bitcoin Layer 2. Not...
Ostium Labs, a protocol in decentralized finance that aims to offer synthetic exposure to real-world assets (RWAs), has been on quite the upswing and gaining serious market traction since it launched its points incentive program on March 31.
If you look at the Ostium platform today — or next week or next month — you’ll see a perpetual exchange by a different name. But in the gap between mid-April...