Bitcoin’s largest corporate treasury accumulator, Strategy, announced its first major bitcoin sale over the last week. However, the market has taken it well. After reaching a cycle low of $57,803 on 1 July, following a period of extended downtrend, BTC has started July positively, and in line with the views we expressed in Bitfinex Alpha,
Today, we disclosed the first set of vulnerabilities from the Ethereum Foundation’s Bug Bounty Programs. These vulnerabilities were previously discovered and reported directly to the Ethereum Foundation or client teams via the Bug Bounty Programs for both the Execution Layer and Consensus Layer. Through its Bug Bounty Programs, which allow the Ethereum Foundation (EF) to
Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only. MiCA’s full implementation has reshaped Europe’s crypto market, with hundreds of firms securing CASP licenses while many others exited or restructured. Summary MiCA leaves just 244 licensed crypto firms operating in the EU as
The Kintsugi 🍵 merge testnet, launched late December, has been a valuable testing ground for The Merge. Through various test suites, multi-client devnets, shadow forks of Goerli, application deployments, and the community’s help #TestingTheMerge, we’ve arrived at a set of stable and robust protocol specifications. Now that clients have implemented these latest specs, a successor
In Bitcoin news today, the BTC price is trading at $62,000 on Wednesday after failing to clear the $64,000 resistance level, with fresh US-Iran military exchanges delivering the immediate blow to risk appetite. The sell-off is not happening in a vacuum; it lands atop a shrinking stablecoin market, and institutional ETF flows are too thin
India’s central bank has renewed its recommendation for a cryptocurrency policy leaning toward prohibition, while tax authorities have warned that offshore trading continues to make crypto tax enforcement difficult. Summary India’s central bank has again backed a cryptocurrency policy leaning toward prohibition while warning against bank exposure to crypto assets and private stablecoins. Tax authorities
tl;dr Kiln🧱🔥 is up, check it out #TestingTheMerge is in full swing. Do your part, get involved! Kiln🧱🔥 is up, check it out One week ago, the Kiln🧱🔥 testnet went through the Merge transition to evolve from a PoW testnet to a fully functional PoS testnet. If you run validators on Mainnet, now is the
The XRP Ledger’s newest server software, v3.2.0, designed to make the network cheaper to run, more stable, and more attractive for institutional use, is gaining adoption. However, it has yet to overtake the previous version (3.1.3) across the wider network, and the key security fixes that come with it remain in the voting process. Of
This article has been updated to include a chart showing Bitmine’s share price performance over the past day. Bitmine has increased its Ethereum treasury with another $70 million purchase, taking its holdings to nearly 5% of the token’s circulating supply. Summary Bitmine has purchased another 40,000 ETH worth about $70 million, taking its Ethereum treasury
Over the past year, the Ethereum Foundation has significantly grown its team of dedicated security researchers and engineers. Members have joined from a variety of backgrounds ranging from cryptography, security architecture, risk management, exploit development as well as having worked on red and blue teams. The members come from different fields and have worked on
