New wallet research aims to preserve a core feature exchanges use to generate deposit addresses without exposing private keys.
Washington lawmakers are moving on multiple fronts to curb the most politically toxic corners of prediction markets after millions of dollars flowed into bets tied to US-linked military action in Iran. Over the past week, several Democratic lawmakers have been pursuing multiple paths to rein in the fast-rising business. One effort, led by Rep. Mike […]
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Ripple is sharpening its argument that it can help institutions move value across traditional rails, stablecoins, and blockchain networks. On March 2, DTCC’s National Securities Clearing Corporation updated its MPID directory to add Ripple-owned “Hidden Road Partners CIV US LLC” for its first trade. The entry appears under the OTC column. A day later, Ripple […]
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Apple launches the $599 MacBook Neo powered by the A18 Pro chip, targeting students and first time buyers in the price sensitive PC market.
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Tether's investment in Eight Sleep could revolutionize personalized health tech, enhancing human potential through AI-driven wellness insights.
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A proposal circulating in the XRP Ledger (XRPL) community is aiming at one of crypto’s most entrenched trading businesses: options. The idea is to build a purpose-built XRPL sidechain that feels “Hyperliquid-like,” a venue designed for exchange-grade execution, then connect that activity back to the XRPL base layer through bridging. In the proposal’s document, Hyperliquid […]
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Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological computing.
Researchers combined milk protein, starch, and volcanic clay to create a biodegradable packaging film that degrades in 13 weeks.
The XRP Ledger (XRPL) is starting to look like a financial back end that traditional finance can adopt without changing itself too much. This is because tokenized funds can sit on the ledger, and stablecoins can move across it. At the same time, protocol upgrades keep landing, including features designed for institutions that want on-chain […]
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Revolut is preparing to trial a pound-backed stablecoin inside a regulated stablecoin sandbox in the UK, with testing expected within the current quarter. While this might look like another fintech pilot in the long history of crypto payment tests, the more interesting part sits upstream of the token itself. Revolut has what most stablecoin projects […]
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A Bitcoin developer embedded a 66-kilobyte image inside a single transaction without using OP_RETURN or Taproot. The transaction followed consensus rules. Anyone can verify the bytes using standard node software. Martin Habovštiak didn't do this to make art, but to prove that closing one data doorway doesn't remove the capability, it just changes where bytes […]
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Paradigm's expansion into AI and robotics highlights a strategic shift towards integrating advanced technologies with decentralized systems.
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A security flaw in a proposed XRP Ledger (XRPL) upgrade could have enabled unauthorized transactions, but researchers flagged the issue before it could reach the blockchain’s main network. The XRPL Foundation said Feb. 26 that the vulnerability was found in the proposed “Batch” amendment, a feature intended to let users bundle multiple actions into a […]
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Ethereum’s latest long-term planning document has given investors a new way to assess whether the digital asset can eventually reach $10,000 by the end of this decade. The newly published “Strawmap,” introduced by Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake, reads less like a conventional roadmap than a preemptive response plan. It sketches a path for Ethereum […]
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On Feb. 25, t54 Labs announced that Ripple was a strategic investor in its $5 million seed round investment. t54 describes itself as the trust layer for the fast-rising agentic economy. The latest artificial intelligence move is small in dollar terms, but larger in what it signals about where Ripple sees the next fight in […]
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Social media giant Meta is quietly plotting a return to stablecoins. This time, however, the primary beneficiary may not be Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse, but the US Treasury market. On Feb. 24, Coindesk reported that Meta was exploring stablecoin-based payments for a possible rollout in the second half of 2026, likely through a third-party provider rather […]
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Discord's delay in age verification highlights the tension between user privacy concerns and regulatory compliance, impacting user trust and platform dynamics.
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Stripe reaches $159B valuation as payment volume hits $1.9T in 2025, doubling stablecoin activity and expanding into blockchain and AI.
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Meta is reportedly exploring stablecoin payments through a third party provider, reviving digital currency ambitions after Libra.
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Bitcoin's weekend selloff led to about $100 billion in crypto market value losses during the reporting period and was triggered by a sudden burst of tariff policy uncertainty. Over the last 24 hours, BTC price had slipped below $65,000, pulling the broader crypto market down with it. The top digital asset had recovered above $66,000 […]
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Bitcoin’s network activity has been weakening for six straight months, but the decline is not showing up in the headline metric many traders watch first. The clearer signal is not transaction volume, which has held up, but participation breadth. Fewer unique addresses are active on the chain, even as the network continues to process a […]
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Bitcoin's current bear market could worsen over the next year if the flagship digital asset fails to address concerns about quantum computing. In a Feb. 20 report, Charles Edwards, Capriole founder, claimed that Bitcoin’s market value should already be discounted for quantum risk and warned that the discount could deepen quickly if the network does […]
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Ethereum’s new roadmap lands in a market that is less interested in vision and more interested in evidence. That is the core tension behind the Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol Priorities Update for 2026, which breaks the network’s next phase into three tracks, including Scale, Improve UX, and Harden the L1. The roadmap is technical, but the […]
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Bitcoin’s grip on the crypto market is tightening again, and the numbers behind that shift help explain why a broad basket of altcoins is unlikely to beat the top crypto. Data from CoinMarketCap indicate that Bitcoin's dominance is edging upwards towards 60% of the total crypto market capitalization. In comparison, altcoins' dominance has been trending […]
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Uber invests $100M to build fast charging hubs for robotaxis across the US, targeting 10 autonomous cities by 2026.
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Russia’s recent messaging crackdown is the cleanest real-world stress test of decentralization in years, and it produced an awkward result. Roskomnadzor began throttling Telegram on Feb. 10, citing “non-compliance.” Two days later, authorities fully blocked WhatsApp, removing its domains from Russia's national registry and forcing users toward VPNs or MAX, a state-backed messenger that critics […]
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Changpeng Zhao called on the industry to prioritise crypto privacy features, arguing that the gap is holding back mainstream adoption.
On Feb. 12, RippleX, Ripple's development arm, announced that Token Escrow is now live on the XRP Ledger’s (XRPL) mainnet. The change, labeled Token Escrow (XLS-85), extends conditional locking and release to trustline-based tokens (IOUs) and Multi-Purpose Tokens (MPTs). This expands the network’s escrow function beyond XRP to cover issued assets used for stablecoins and […]
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China's blockchain initiative for green energy could enhance transparency, boost market efficiency, and align with climate goals by 2030.
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Bitcoin developer contributors just cleared a documentation hurdle that crypto Twitter treated like an emergency quantum patch. It wasn't. On Feb. 11, a proposal for a new output type, Pay-to-Merkle-Root (BIP-0360), was merged into the official Bitcoin Improvement Proposals repository. No nodes upgraded. No activation timeline exists. The BIPs repository itself warns that publication doesn't […]
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