tl;dr: Ethereum Protocol Studies is returning for 2025. Visit epf.wiki to fill out the survey and join the town hall on Wednesday, Feb 12. The Ethereum Protocol Studies program (EPS) is back for 2025! Designed to lower the barrier to understanding Ethereum’s core protocol, EPS provides structured learning and a direct path to deeper protocol
Zcash price has crashed this year, erasing most of the gains made last year as profit-taking continued and as competition fears rise. Summary Zcash price has slumped by 66% from its highest level in November last year. Ethereum plans to launch stealth addresses, while Cardano is working on Midnight. ZEC has moved to the distribution
A self-replicating npm worm dubbed SANDWORM_MODE hits 19+ packages, harvesting private keys, BIP39 mnemonics, wallet files and LLM API keys from dev environments. A live npm supply chain attack is sweeping developer environments right now. Socket’s Threat Research Team uncovered what it tracks as SANDWORM_MODE, a self-replicating worm spread across at least 19 malicious npm
Community & education Aleph de Verano Crecimiento 2-week event in Buenos Aires, Argentina featuring a ZK and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) bootcamp, hackathon, demo day, and talks on DeFi, infrastructure, governance, and regulation. Community & education Aleph ZK Week 3-day conference hosted during the Aleph pop-up city in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that provided a deep
Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only. As 2026 nears, FT Mining’s zero-threshold cloud model is reshaping global crypto participation trends. Summary FT Mining introduces zero-cost, flexible cloud mining, widening global crypto access. As 2026 volatility looms, FT Mining’s compliant cloud
Is your Bitcoin safe from the computers of the future? At a recent conference, developer Hunter Beast raised a red flag. He said the network is not ready for quantum machines, the kind of powerful machines that could crack today’s cryptography. That sounds dramatic. Government labs are racing to build super machines. Encryption at risk.
[05/03/2025] Sepolia Incident Update See this post. [27/02/2025] Holesky Incident Update On Feb. 24, 2025, the Pectra upgrade activated on the Holesky testnet. After the activation, a configuration issue in Besu, Nethermind and go-ethereum led to a chain split on Holesky. The issue was rapidly fixed, but the Holesky network performance is still degraded. More
Tether announced it will discontinue support for its offshore yuan stablecoin CNH₮, citing low demand and limited community adoption. Summary Tether stops CNH₮ minting immediately, citing low demand and adoption. Redemptions remain open for one year before full shutdown. Resources shift toward USDT and core stablecoin infrastructure. The company will cease all new token issuances
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Blue Owl Capital’s (OWL) announcement this week that it would sell $1.4 billion in loans to raise liquidity for investors in a retail-focused private credit fund has triggered alarm bells across financial markets, with more than one prominent analyst drawing direct parallels to two Bear Stearns hedge fund collapses that foreshadowed the 2008 financial crisis
