Ethereum scaling tokens outperformed most of the cryptocurrency market after the weekend crash, signaling stronger price resilience among layer-2 (L2) projects built on the world’s largest smart contract network. Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Mantle (MNT) had a 31% rebound on Monday, becoming the third-biggest gainer among the 100 largest cryptocurrencies tracked by CoinMarketCap. The Arbitrum…
America’s federal government has entered its third week of shutdown, leaving as many as 16 exchange-traded funds (ETF) awaiting approval should the shutdown continue into November. Most of the US government came to a standstill on Oct. 1 when the Republicans and Democrats failed to reach a funding agreement. This has caused agencies, including the…
Bitcoin Core developers saw a mixed reaction from the Bitcoin community as they announced the release of their v30 update, bringing forward a host of node-related changes to architecture, performance, and security. The key changes brought forward in Bitcoin Core 30.0 are the introduction of optional encrypted connections between nodes for better privacy and…
The Trump administration is reportedly “leaning toward a pardon” for Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, who pleaded guilty to money laundering charges in 2024 and spent four months in prison. According to New York Post columnist and Fox correspondent Charles Gasparino, sources close to Zhao said that Trump insiders believe the case against CZ was…
The USDe synthetic dollar depegged on the Binance crypto exchange due to an internal oracle issue and not because of the underlying collateral, the Ethena protocol, or the token itself, according to Guy Young, the founder of Ethena Labs, the creator of USDe. USDe minting and redeeming worked “perfectly” during Friday’s flash crash, he claimed;…
Opinion by: Hedy Wang, co-founder and CEO at Block Street Equity markets are still running on outdated rails — batch files, email reconciliations and sluggish collateral transfers that crawl between custodians through workflows that no one fully controls. If the industry wants to maintain credibility, it can no longer tolerate this. The answer is not…
BNB’s recent surge to a new all-time high above $1,300 is not an “unexpected upshot or rare peak,” rather it shows the network’s credibility, according to David Namdar, CEO of Nasdaq-listed CEA Industries, which has also become the world’s largest BNB Treasury. In a recent interview with Cointelegraph, Namdar called BNB (BNB) “the most overlooked…
An onchain investigation by crypto researcher Eye has linked the mysterious Hyperliquid whale, who controls over 100,000 BTC, to Garrett Jin, the former CEO of BitForex, a now-defunct exchange embroiled in a fraud scandal. In a Saturday post on X, the onchain sleuth noted that the whale’s main wallet, ereignis.eth, was connected to another ENS…
Opinion by: Evin McMullen, co-founder and CEO of Billions Network and co-founder of Privado ID Population monitoring has evolved over the years. First, it was from other people; later, it was data harvesting. In 2025, wearable technology is the new frontier for broader public surveillance. This isn’t necessarily some dystopia, nor is it comfortable —…
Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital has secured a $460 million private investment from one of the world’s “largest asset managers” to accelerate the transformation of its former Bitcoin mining site in Texas into an AI data center. The deal involves the purchase of 12.77 million Class A shares at $36 per share, with the proceeds earmarked…