The ETH/BTC Ratio Is Recovering. Here Is What That Tells Us.
Ethereum is outpacing Bitcoin over the past week as the ETH/BTC ratio climbs off 2026 lows, driven by record ETF inflows and surging on-chain activity.
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SEC Rules Wallet Interface Software Is Not a Broker, a Big Win for DeFi
The SEC confirmed on April 13 that software letting users transact through self-hosted wallets does not trigger broker-dealer registration requirements.
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Tokenized Real-World Assets Hit $27.6 Billion as Institutions Move On-Chain
Tokenized real-world assets have surged to $27.6 billion in April 2026, driven by institutional demand for on-chain Treasuries, private credit, and real estate.
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CME Group Adds AVAX and SUI Futures as Institutional Crypto Appetite Grows
CME Group plans to launch Avalanche and Sui futures on May 4, expanding its regulated crypto derivatives suite as institutional demand for altcoin exposure rises.
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A Fake Ledger App on the Apple App Store Just Drained $9.5 Million in Crypto
A malicious Ledger Live clone passed Apple's App Store review and stole millions from users by requesting their seed phrases on first launch.
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XRP Ledger Adds Zero-Knowledge Proofs to Close the Institutional Privacy Gap
Ripple integrates Boundless ZK proving network into the XRP Ledger, enabling private yet auditable transactions as institutions push for confidential on-chain finance.
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Aave's 'Will Win' Vote Hands Full Revenue Control to Token Holders
Aave governance passed its most significant proposal yet, redirecting all protocol and application revenue to AAVE token holders and ending a months-long internal dispute.
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Stablecoins Cross $320 Billion: What the Record Supply Actually Signals
The stablecoin market has hit a historic $320 billion in total value, but the data tells a more nuanced story about risk appetite and institutional flows.
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The Ethereum Foundation's Staking Pivot: What 70,000 ETH Means for the Protocol
The Ethereum Foundation completed its 70,000 ETH staking target in April 2026, shifting from asset sales to yield generation and reducing structural sell pressure on ETH.
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Hong Kong Grants First Stablecoin Licenses to HSBC and Anchorpoint Financial
The HKMA issued its first two stablecoin issuer licenses on April 10, 2026, selecting HSBC and Anchorpoint Financial from a pool of 36 applicants under the new Stablecoins Ordinance.
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Securitize Brings Tokenized Assets to TRON's 373 Million Users
Securitize integrates with TRON to distribute tokenized real-world assets across one of blockchain's largest user networks, signaling a new phase of institutional RWA adoption.
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CME Group Is Adding Avalanche and Sui Futures to Its Crypto Suite
CME Group plans to launch regulated AVAX and SUI futures contracts on May 4, 2026, continuing its rapid expansion into crypto derivatives.
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Japan Reclassifies Crypto as Financial Instruments in Landmark Regulatory Shift
Japan's cabinet approved an amendment to its Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, elevating crypto assets to the same regulatory tier as stocks and bonds.
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How Global Banks Are Moving the $12.5 Trillion Repo Market Onto Ethereum
Major financial institutions including Banque de France, Societe Generale, and UBS are running live repo operations on Ethereum, marking a turning point for blockchain in institutional finance.
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Global Banks Are Moving the $12.5 Trillion Repo Market Onto Ethereum
Major financial institutions including Societe Generale and UBS are migrating live repo market operations to Ethereum, marking a shift from pilots to production-scale blockchain infrastructure.
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Wall Street's $12.5 Trillion Repo Market Is Moving to Ethereum
Major global banks including Societe Generale and UBS are running live repo market operations on Ethereum, marking a historic shift in financial settlement infrastructure.
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Stablecoins Cross $320 Billion: How Regulation Turned a Niche Tool Into a Payment Powerhouse
The global stablecoin market has surpassed $320 billion in market cap, driven by the GENIUS Act, institutional inflows, and transaction volumes that now eclipse major payment networks.
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Bitmine Lists on NYSE With 4.8 Million ETH and a $4 Billion Buyback
Tom Lee's Bitmine Immersion Technologies uplists to the New York Stock Exchange holding nearly 4% of all circulating Ether, with staking generating $196 million annually.
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How Hackers Drained $285 Million from Drift Protocol in Under an Hour
North Korean hackers exploited Drift Protocol on Solana using fake collateral and social engineering to steal $285 million on April 1, 2026.
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DeFi Tokens Lead Crypto Rally as US-Iran Ceasefire Eases Risk Aversion
A two-week US-Iran ceasefire sparked a broad crypto market surge on April 8, with the CoinDesk DeFi Select Index jumping 7%, outpacing Bitcoin and Ether.
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Drift Loses $280 Million in Novel Solana Attack Tied to North Korea
Hackers drained $280 million from Solana DeFi protocol Drift by exploiting a rarely-abused Solana feature called durable nonces to seize administrative control.
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Morgan Stanley Launches MSBT: The First Spot Bitcoin ETF From a Major U.S. Bank
Morgan Stanley's MSBT begins trading on NYSE Arca today, marking the first spot Bitcoin ETF issued by a major U.S. bank and a new phase in institutional adoption.
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The $285M Drift Hack Exposes a Fundamental DeFi Security Gap
North Korean hackers spent six months planning a 12-minute attack that drained Solana's largest perpetual exchange using a fake token and stolen governance keys.
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Solana Foundation Launches STRIDE to Rebuild DeFi Security After $286M Drift Hack
The Solana Foundation's new STRIDE program replaces one-off audits with continuous, tiered security coverage for all DeFi protocols on the network.
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Solana Launches STRIDE After $285M Drift Hack Shakes DeFi
The Solana Foundation's new STRIDE program offers tiered, continuous security coverage for DeFi protocols, funded by the foundation based on TVL.
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Ant Group's Anvita Platform Lets AI Agents Hold Crypto and Pay Each Other
Ant Digital Technologies has launched Anvita, a platform enabling autonomous AI agents to hold, trade, and settle payments in crypto without human approval.
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How Attackers Drained $285M from Drift Protocol in 12 Minutes
The Drift Protocol exploit on April 1 combined fake token collateral, oracle manipulation, and a governance hijack to drain the largest Solana DEX in under a quarter hour.
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NYSE's Tokenized Platform Brings 24/7 Stock Trading to the Blockchain
The New York Stock Exchange is building a blockchain-based securities platform with round-the-clock trading, instant settlement, and stablecoin funding - backed by BNY and Citi.
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How a $280M Drift Protocol Hack Used Solana's Own Tools Against It
A North Korean-linked attacker exploited Solana's durable nonce feature to pre-sign governance transactions weeks in advance, draining $280 million from Drift Protocol in under 12 minutes.
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Midnight Goes Mainnet: Cardano's Privacy Chain Lands First Bank Deal
Charles Hoskinson's $200M-backed privacy blockchain Midnight has launched on mainnet, securing a £250M deposit tokenization deal with UK-regulated Monument Bank and attracting nine major institutions to run nodes.
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Schwab Is About to Let 35 Million Clients Buy Bitcoin Directly
With $11.9 trillion in client assets and a Q2 launch on the horizon, Charles Schwab's entry into spot crypto trading marks a new phase in institutional retail adoption.
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Circle's cirBTC Takes Aim at the Wrapped Bitcoin Market
Circle has unveiled cirBTC, a 1:1 onchain-verifiable wrapped Bitcoin token targeting the DeFi market. Here is what it means for the sector.
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Coinbase Gets Conditional OCC Approval for a National Trust Charter
The OCC granted Coinbase conditional approval to operate as a federally chartered national trust company, a significant step that would let it custody digital assets under a single federal regulator across all 50 states.
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Drift Protocol Loses $285 Million in Solana's Second-Largest Exploit
Attackers drained $285 million from Drift Protocol using a combination of fake governance tokens, durable nonces, and social engineering — exposing a critical gap in how Solana DeFi handles administrative multisig.
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Aave V4 Goes Live on Ethereum With a New Lending Architecture
Aave's fourth major protocol version launched on Ethereum mainnet, introducing a hub-and-spoke model designed to support real-world credit markets and structured lending alongside DeFi.
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Drift Protocol Loses $285M in Solana's Biggest DeFi Hack of 2026
North Korean hackers exploited Solana's durable nonce feature and social engineering to drain $285 million from Drift Protocol on April 1, 2026 — the largest DeFi exploit of the year.
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Stablecoin Supply Hits $315B in Q1 as Yield-Bearing Products Reshape the Market
Total stablecoin supply grew to a record $315 billion in Q1 2026, but the bigger story is the widening gap between USDT and USDC — and the rapid rise of yield-bearing stablecoins.
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Bitcoin Drops to $66K as 'Liberation Day' Tariffs Trigger Extreme Fear
Trump's sweeping tariff announcement on April 2 pushed Bitcoin to its lowest level since February and sent the Fear & Greed Index to 12, a reading not seen since early 2024.
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Goldman Sachs Is Using Tokenized Treasuries as Derivatives Collateral
Goldman Sachs has moved tokenized U.S. Treasuries into live derivatives workflows, a milestone that signals on-chain finance is no longer a pilot project for the largest banks.
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Franklin Templeton Launches Franklin Crypto with 250 Digital Acquisition
The $1.7 trillion asset manager is forming a dedicated crypto investment division by acquiring CoinFund spinoff 250 Digital, with part of the deal settled in tokenized money-market tokens.
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The Mined in America Act Wants to Rewire Bitcoin's Supply Chain
Senators Lummis and Cassidy introduced legislation to certify domestic Bitcoin miners, phase out Chinese hardware, and codify the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve into law.
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Onchain Perp Trading Just Hit $1 Trillion a Month. CEXs Are Paying Attention.
Decentralized perpetual futures exchanges crossed $1 trillion in monthly volume and now hold roughly 26% of the global perp market. Here is what is driving the shift.
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AI agents are starting to spend crypto. Here's what that means for DeFi
Autonomous AI agents are moving from curiosity to active participants in on-chain finance. A look at the emerging infrastructure being built to let them transact, and why it matters for how DeFi develops from here.
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ECB Report: DeFi Governance Is More Concentrated Than It Appears
A new European Central Bank working paper finds that the top 100 addresses control over 80% of voting power in major DeFi protocols, raising hard questions about what decentralization actually means.
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New Research Slashes the Qubit Count Needed to Break Bitcoin Encryption
A Caltech and Oratomic study finds a neutral-atom quantum computer with roughly 26,000 qubits could crack the elliptic curve cryptography securing Bitcoin and Ethereum wallets in about ten days — far fewer qubits than earlier estimates.
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Invesco steps into tokenized treasuries by taking over a $967M fund
Invesco has entered the tokenized treasury market by assuming management of Superstate's USTB fund. The structure of the deal tells you something important about how traditional finance is actually adopting on-chain infrastructure.
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Solana's Alpenglow Upgrade: What 150ms Finality Actually Means
Solana's biggest consensus overhaul since launch replaces Tower BFT with Votor and Rotor, targeting 150ms finality. The proposal passed. Now comes the hard part.
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Invesco's USTB deal shows how Wall Street actually goes onchain
Invesco's takeover of Superstate's $967M tokenized Treasury fund isn't just another institutional crypto headline. It maps out the division of labour that could define how traditional finance migrates onto public blockchains.
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Real-World Assets on Chain: What's Actually Working in 2026
Tokenised Treasuries crossed $5 billion. Private credit protocols are originating real loans. The RWA narrative has moved from whitepaper promise to live infrastructure, but the hard problems haven't gone away.
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Solana's Alpenglow Upgrade: From 13 Seconds to 150 Milliseconds
Solana's Alpenglow proposal passed with 99.6% validator approval. Here is what the consensus overhaul actually changes, and why it matters for DeFi and payments.
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Cross-Chain Messaging in 2026: How LayerZero, Wormhole, and CCIP Connect Blockchains
As crypto activity spreads across dozens of chains, a new infrastructure layer has emerged to pass messages and move assets between them.
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Jupiter Is the Layer Between Solana's Liquidity and Its Users
Jupiter started as a DEX aggregator and has expanded into perpetuals, token launches, and governance. It now sits at the center of Solana's DeFi stack.
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MakerDAO Is Now Sky: How DeFi's Oldest Lending Protocol Is Reinventing Itself
MakerDAO rebranded to Sky in 2024, replacing DAI with USDS and MKR with SKY as part of a sweeping restructuring called Endgame.
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Bitcoin's Layer 2 Landscape: Lightning, Stacks, and Babylon
Bitcoin's base layer is slow and expensive for anything beyond large transfers. Three very different Layer 2 approaches are competing to change that.
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How Ethena Turns Futures Funding Rates Into a Synthetic Dollar
Ethena's USDe holds its dollar peg through a delta-neutral derivatives position and distributes the resulting funding income to stakers.
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Pendle Lets You Trade Yield Itself, Not Just the Assets That Earn It
Pendle Finance splits yield-bearing tokens into two tradable pieces, letting DeFi users lock in fixed rates or speculate on yield movements.
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Uniswap v4: How Hooks Are Reshaping DEX Architecture
Uniswap v4 launched on Ethereum in January 2025 with a hook system that lets developers attach custom logic to any liquidity pool.
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What Is a Prediction Market?
Prediction markets let people bet on real-world outcomes using crypto. They've become one of the most-watched applications in onchain finance.
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What Is Liquid Staking?
Liquid staking lets you earn Ethereum staking rewards without locking up your capital. Here's how it works, who the major players are, and what you're actually risking.
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Bitcoin ETF Flows Are Telling a Different Story Than the Price
Spot Bitcoin ETF flows have been positive for six consecutive weeks. The price has not followed. Understanding the divergence matters more than the headline number.
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Morpho Blue and the Shift to Permissionless Lending
How Morpho's isolated market design is challenging Aave's monolithic model and forcing a rethink of how DeFi manages lending risk.
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Tokenized Real-World Assets Hit $20 Billion. The Hard Part Starts Now.
RWA tokenization has crossed a significant threshold. Treasury bills, credit, and real estate are on-chain. The infrastructure gaps that follow are less glamorous but more important.
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DePIN Is Building Real Infrastructure. Whether It Pays Is Still Open.
Decentralized physical infrastructure networks have moved past whitepaper phase. The question now is whether token incentives can sustain the real-world buildout.
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Ethereum's Layer 2 Fragmentation: Fifty Chains Isn't a Win Yet
Ethereum's rollup ecosystem has grown to dozens of active L2s. The scalability goal is being met. The liquidity fragmentation problem is not.
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The GENIUS Act Is Getting Real: What the OCC's Draft Rules Mean for Stablecoins
The OCC published a 370-page proposed rule on March 2, 2026, laying out exactly how it will license and supervise stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act.
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Berachain's Proof of Liquidity: What the New Consensus Model Actually Does
Berachain launched mainnet in February 2025 with a novel consensus mechanism that ties validator rewards directly to protocol liquidity. Here's how it works and where the risks are.
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Bitcoin Dominance Above 60%: What the Market Structure Is Telling You
Bitcoin's share of total crypto market cap has held above 60% for months. Here is what the data says about why altcoins keep underperforming and what would need to change.
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Bitcoin ETFs Rewired the Market. Here Is the Evidence.
Two years after spot Bitcoin ETFs launched in the US, institutional flows have changed how Bitcoin trades, who holds it, and what drives its price.
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Ethereum's Pectra Upgrade: What Actually Changed
Pectra shipped in May 2025 with no single dramatic headline. Ten months on, here's what its four core changes have actually done.
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Stablecoin Wars 2026: Who Is Actually Winning?
Tether still leads, but yield-bearing stablecoins and US regulation are reshaping the competitive structure of a $200 billion market.
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TON Has the Best Distribution in Crypto. The On-Chain Numbers Tell a Different Story
The Open Network sits inside Telegram, which has roughly 950 million monthly active users. Converting them to on-chain participants has proved harder than the viral gaming numbers suggested.
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What Is a Crypto Oracle?
Blockchains can't read the outside world. Oracles solve that problem — and create new ones.
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What Is a Zero-Knowledge Proof?
Zero-knowledge proofs let you prove something is true without revealing why. Here is how they work and why they matter for crypto.
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What Is Account Abstraction?
Account abstraction replaces rigid crypto wallets with programmable smart accounts. Here is how it works, why it matters, and what is already built on it.
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What Is MEV?
Maximal Extractable Value is the profit validators earn by controlling transaction order — and it costs DeFi users millions per year.
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AI Agents Are Getting Crypto Wallets - What World and Coinbase Just Built
Sam Altman's World and Coinbase launched AgentKit, a toolkit letting AI agents make verified stablecoin payments on behalf of real humans.
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Base at Two: How Coinbase Built Consumer Crypto's Default Chain
Coinbase's Ethereum Layer 2 grew from a quiet 2023 launch into one of the most active rollups without issuing a token. Here is how it works, what drove its growth, and where the centralization risks sit.
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Bitcoin just mined its 20 millionth coin - only 1 million left
On March 9, 2026, the Bitcoin network crossed a historic supply threshold. Here's what it means for scarcity, mining, and the road to 21 million.
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Hyperliquid: The Perp DEX That Took the Fight to Binance
Hyperliquid built a decentralized perpetuals exchange fast enough to pull real trading volume from centralized competitors. The JELLY incident revealed how much of that decentralization is real.
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The OCC's Stablecoin Rules: What the GENIUS Act Actually Requires
The OCC has proposed a comprehensive federal framework for stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act, including a $10 billion threshold that forces large state-regulated issuers to go federal or stop growing.
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The SEC just defined what a crypto security is - here's what changed
For the first time, US regulators have published a formal taxonomy that tells you which crypto assets are securities, which are commodities, and why that distinction matters.
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After Bitcoin and Ethereum, Solana Is Next in the Spot ETF Queue
A major US asset manager filed for a spot Solana ETF this week. The filing tests how far the new regulatory consensus on crypto actually extends.
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Strategy Now Holds 761,068 Bitcoin. What That Actually Means.
Strategy's treasury has crossed $57.6 billion in Bitcoin after its latest $1.57B purchase. The accumulation strategy is a structural feature of this market now, not a headline curiosity.
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Tokenized Treasuries: Crypto's Quietest Product-Market Fit
BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and Ondo Finance have put billions in US Treasuries on-chain. Here is what is driving it, who is using it, and what could go wrong.
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The week in crypto - March 17-21, 2026
BTC holds above $95K as macro pressure persists, Ethereum's Osaka upgrade gets a testnet date, and a major US asset manager files for a spot Solana ETF. Here's the week.
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What Is a Layer 2?
Layer 2 networks move Ethereum computation off-chain to cut costs and increase throughput, while inheriting the security of Ethereum's main chain. Here is how they work.
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What Is a Stablecoin?
Stablecoins are the part of crypto that acts like normal money. Here is how they work, why they exist in three different forms, and what can go wrong with each.
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What is restaking - and why does EigenLayer matter?
Ethereum staking secures one network. Restaking takes the same staked ETH and uses it to secure many. Here's how EigenLayer made that possible, what it's become, and what the risks look like.
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Why Bitcoin hit $100K and what comes next
Bitcoin crossing six figures wasn't random. Here's an analytical look at the structural forces that drove it - ETF inflows, the halving cycle, institutional adoption - and what the data suggests about where we are now.
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Ethereum's roadmap in 2026 - where are we?
The Surge, The Scourge, The Verge, The Purge, The Splurge. Vitalik laid out the phases years ago. Here's an honest look at what's shipped, what's still in progress, and where the L2 network stands today.
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What is DeFi?
Decentralised finance promises banking without banks. Here's what it actually is, how the core protocols work, and the real risks you need to understand before touching it.
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What is a crypto wallet?
A crypto wallet doesn't actually hold any crypto. Here's what it does hold, why that distinction matters, and how to think about keeping your funds safe.
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What is a blockchain?
A clear, jargon-free explanation of what a blockchain actually is - the problem it solves, how blocks and hashing work, and why any of it matters.
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