A growing amount of the blockchain industry’s fees are captured by DeFi protocols rather than the underlying networks, signaling a potential investor shift to front-end facing applications....
AI is spreading across crypto trading, heightening fears of displacement even as human traders remain responsible for key decisions....
ZKsync’s 2026 plan shifts focus from experimentation to production-ready infrastructure designed for banks, enterprises and regulated financial systems....
X head of product Nikita Bier said the feature will launch in a few weeks, and already has over 1,000 pre-made "packs" of accounts to follow in each interest category — such as memecoins trading and c...
Ethereum is seeing record transaction activity and lower fees as staking remains steady, showing the network’s durability and stability....
CME Group plans to launch Cardano, Chainlink, and Stellar futures on February 9, pending approval....
Sygnum predicts US crypto regulation could spur sovereign Bitcoin reserves and accelerate tokenized bond issuance by major financial institutions in 2026....
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Vitalik Buterin warns that Ethereum’s push to add new features while preserving backward compatibility is inflating protocol complexity, calling for a “garbage collection” process....
Binance Australia has reopened direct dollar deposits and withdrawals after more than two years of disrupted banking access....
Analysts told Decrypt that though network activity for the privacy coin is far below its peak, offshoot projects show promise....
Bitcoin, DeFi, and tokenized assets are emerging as functional parts of global capital markets, ARK Invest wrote, though challenges persist....
The New York Stock Exchange is developing a tokenized securities platform that will allow for 24/7 settlement of trades....
Belgian bank KBC will launch bitcoin and ether trading for retail investors via its Bolero platform as Belgium’s MiCA regime comes into force....
The planned altcoins listings will expand CME’s regulated crypto derivatives contracts beyond Bitcoin, Ether, XRP and Solana....
Bitcoin’s rally drew fuel from short covering as steady inflation data and the start of earnings season reinforced trader expectations....
Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron told Cointelegraph that the acquisitions position the network as a regulated payments platform built to move stablecoins onchain at scale....
Selling the Bitcoin would have violated President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14233, which mandates that any Bitcoin obtained through criminal or civil forfeiture “shall not be sold.”...
ETF flows, treasury stocks, mining fees, scaling trade-offs and regulation now explain Bitcoin’s market shifts better than price alone....
South Korea’s customs agency charged three suspects over a more than $100 million crypto-linked remittance scheme using WeChat Pay and Alipay, per Yonhap....