Bitcoin and Ether bears get decimated amid ‘squeeze-led’ rally and Musk’s X wants to pay creators in stablecoins: Crypto week in 5 stories
Bitcoin and crypto staged their strongest rally in months as Treasury intervention, regulatory moves and a historic short…
Bitcoin crash forced Riot to pledge 1,825 BTC, but this huge rally may now free up 1,500 BTC
Riot Platforms entered 2026 with 3,977 BTC pledged against a $200 million Coinbase loan. Bitcoin then fell far…
Treasury just put a deadline on offshore stablecoins’ access to US customers
By July 18, 2028, a stablecoin could still move freely across blockchains and yet disappear from the buy…
Adam Back’s Bitcoin treasury deal died, but its $15M obligation did not
The public Bitcoin treasury structure is gone, while two 2026 payments carry a narrow seven-day release condition. The…
Zcash jumps 48% to over $800 as Grayscale spot ETF push adds to ‘next bitcoin’ buzz
ZEC traded above its January 2018 peak as futures volume hit billions of dollars and a Grayscale filing…
Illuvium says six months of cuts bought it another year as MMO becomes its main remaining bet
Warwick says six months of cost reductions restored runway, but the studio has not published its current burn.…
Ethereum researchers are racing to close a zkEVM security gap before December
The better.codes contest puts Ethereum’s abstract security target against live certificates, but its score covers only koalaIRS12. The…
MANTRA Chain stays offline after exploit as Aug. 21 restart hinges on patch test
Transactions, transfers and staking remain unavailable after MANTRA said an attacker exploited an upstream dependency. The post MANTRA…
Crypto advocates join in suing Illinois over digital asset tax
The Crypto Council for Innovation and the Blockchain Association added another lawsuit against the state for its recently…
Solana Activates 350-Millisecond Slots on Mainnet
The first cut since Solana’s inception shortens the block-production window for validators and begins an epoch-by-epoch path toward…