Hegota was named late last year as the upgrade following Glamsterdam, as Ethereum developers mapped out the network’s 2026 roadmap.
The ERC-8004 proposal aims to let AI agents interact with entities on Ethereum, allowing them to participate in a decentralized economy.
Tether owns around 140 tons of gold, worth around $23 billion, stored in a nuclear bunker in Switzerland, according to Bloomberg.
Zora's content coin mechanism enables near-zero-cost token deployment, allowing creators to mint tokens with minimal friction.
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Four in 10 surveyed merchants already accept crypto at checkout, with roughly three-quarters reporting an increase in crypto sales last year.
Giang Bui, who most recently worked on equities and ETF operations at Nasdaq, will join as Securitizes new vice president of issuer growth.
Bo Hines, a former crypto policy advisor to the White House, will help oversee the launch of Tether's new stablecoin.
Standard Chartered has estimated that up to $500 billion could exit U.S. bank deposits for stablecoins by 2028.
Citrea uses a zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine to inscribe its chain history on the Bitcoin base layer.
The launch comes as tokenized gold hits a record high market cap, with most existing products still offering only passive price exposure.
Gold's breakout above $5,000 and Clarity Act uncertainty are putting crypto's next market move to the test, Matt Hougan said.
HIP-3 deployed DEXs have recorded a fresh all-time high OI above $790 million, amid a “surge in commodities trading," Hyperliquid said.
The move comes as Kalshi’s trading volume pulls ahead of Polymarket, largely due to its sports betting offerings.
Bitwise has joined Morpho as a vault curator, highlighting growing institutional demand for allocating capital onchain.
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The iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF would hold bitcoin directly and generate yield from selling IBIT option premiums.
Sharps is increasingly framing passive staking rewards as a recurring cash-flow stream rather than a directional bet on SOL prices.
The first fund to track the Avalanche's AVAX token and include staking rewards debuted Monday with the launch of the VanEck Avalanche ETF.
Risk managers Chaos Labs and Sentora will also operate the first three USDC vaults, allocating funds to protocols like Aave, Morpho and Sky.
Tether Gold controlled approximately 60% of the $4 billion gold-backed stablecoin market at the end of 2025, Tether said Monday.
A U.S. winter storm has seen many bitcoin miners curtail operations, slashing Foundry USA pool’s hashrate and slowing block production.
Matcha Meta disclosed a SwapNet security incident on Sunday and PeckShield estimated roughly $16.8 million in crypto was drained.
Decentralized social protocols Farcaster and Lens have changed hands, and the debate over crypto social's future is back.
A cybercriminal known as "Lick" may be the son of the president of a firm contracted by the government to dispose of stolen crypto assets.
The Foundation announced a $1 million Poseidon Prize to harden a key cryptographic function, adding to the $1 million Proximity Prize announced last year.
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CertiK co-founder Ronghui Gu said the cybersecurity firm is exploring paths to go public in an interview this week in Davos, Switzerland.
The U.S. Treasury tied Wedding’s network to a web of sanctioned crypto wallets across five blockchains, pointing to a laundering operation.
CZ said he didn't expect to serve time, arguing that past cases typically resulted in home confinement or deferred prosecution agreements.