The year 2025 witnessed billions of dollars in major crypto funding across top deals, with Naver Financial’s acquisition of Dunamu for $10.3 billion leading the list. Summary Crypto funding in 2025 was led by massive M&A deals worth billions. Naver Financial’s $10.3B acquisition of Dunamu was the year’s biggest deal. Exchanges and trading platforms dominated
tl;dr Eth2 Workshop: Eth1+Eth2 Merge and Sharding Last week, the EF eth2 research team hosted an online workshop focused on the two major upgrades slated for the beacon chain — the eth1+eth2 merge and sharding. Client devs — both eth1 and eth2 — and researchers from across the stack joined to listen for a dynamic
The year 2025 has emerged as a year of consolidation, with major layer-1 networks laying the groundwork for the tooling and technology that will lead to better interoperability, as well as pushing forward with real-world financial use cases. For Ethereum, that meant a surge in institutional adoption and steady progress on scaling, while builders increasingly
Ethereum spot ETFs recorded $174.43 million in net inflows on January 2, breaking a pattern of year-end redemptions. Summary Ethereum ETFs recorded $174M in inflows, breaking December’s redemption trend. Grayscale and BlackRock led buying as weekly flows turned positive again. Bitcoin ETFs mirrored strength with $471M in inflows. Grayscale’s ETHE led all funds with $53.69
This month, we’ve got the latest on from two groups doing great work to grow the Ethereum ecosystem! Couger for education and community building in Japan Specializing in AI, Couger might seem like an unlikely champion of Ethereum education! However, Couger has not only explored the intersection of Ethereum and AI and piloted a zero
Bitcoin’s price action in 2025 pointed to a market shaped less by speculative and impulsive excess and more by macro forces. The bitcoin price traded through a wide range last year. According to Bitcoin Magazine Pro data, bitcoin rallied above $126,000 during mid-to-late-year advances fueled by ETF inflows and optimism around U.S. regulatory clarity. Those
Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. When Bitcoin (BTC) first entered the world, it did so with an air of finality, as if a long-standing intellectual riddle had been resolved. Here, at last, was a monetary system that
Oh wow, it’s been a while… over 1.5 years since we’ve released Geth v1.9.0. We did do 26 point releases in that time frame (about one per three weeks), but pushing out a major release is always a bit more special. The adrenaline rush of shipping new features, coupled with the fear of something going
Bitcoin Whales Accumulate After $88,000 Drop as AI Flags Smart-Money Buying Artificial intelligence systems monitoring the Bitcoin blockchain are now detecting a surge in Bitcoin whale accumulation following BTC’s pullback to the $88,000 level. According to blockchain data AI, large wallets are quietly increasing their holdings while short-term traders reduce exposure. This behavior is a
A phishing campaign is targeting Cardano users through fake emails promoting a fraudulent Eternl Desktop application download. The attack leverages professionally crafted messages referencing NIGHT and ATMA token rewards through the Diffusion Staking Basket program to establish credibility. Threat hunter Anurag identified a malicious installer distributed through a newly registered domain, download.eternldesktop.network. The 23.3 megabyte
