Ripple secures Luxembourg CASP license, completing MiCA compliance for crypto services across 30 EEA countries. Ripple has received authorisation for its Crypto Asset Service Provider license in Luxembourg, marking a new regulatory step for its European crypto operations. The approval from Luxembourg’s Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier confirms Ripple’s compliance with the Markets in
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has unveiled a multi-year roadmap that places native privacy, quantum resistance, and protocol simplification at the center of Ethereum’s next major upgrade, describing it as the network’s largest transformation since The Merge. Summary Vitalik Buterin has proposed Ethereum’s biggest protocol overhaul since The Merge with a multi-year roadmap. The plan prioritizes
Do you enjoy solving interesting and challenging problems? Are you interested in getting involved at the most foundational level of the Ethereum protocol? The Protocol Support Team (EF) is excited to announce that applications are now being accepted for the third cohort of the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship (formerly Core Developer Apprenticeship Program (CDAP))! With the
Cardano (ADA) added 14,783 new non-empty ADA wallets in the days following its June 23 price bottom, according to on-chain data firm Santiment. ADA has since gained +24% in seven days, touching $0.199 on July 5 before settling near $0.181, the first time the token has traded at these levels since 2020. The wallet growth
Russia’s largest lender, Sberbank, has confirmed plans to launch a cryptocurrency wallet and digital asset depository within months after the country’s proposed digital asset law takes effect on Sept. 1. Summary Sberbank plans to launch a crypto wallet and digital asset depository after Russia’s new digital asset law takes effect on Sept. 1. Russia’s largest
Community & education Blockchain Pachuca Meetup Blockchain Pachuca First meetup for a community group based in Pachuca, Mexico that studies Ethereum dApps. Community & education city3 Quadratic Funding Experiments city3 Implementation of quadratic funding experiments in Oakland, California. Community & education Cryptist One-day conference exploring ZK technology and the Ethereum ecosystem, held in Istanbul, Turkey.
Bitmine Immersion (BMNR), the largest Ethereum (ETH) treasury company, stepped up its buying pace last week, purchasing 42,197 ether (ETH) as chairman Thomas Lee pointed to improving prospects for U.S. crypto legislation as a catalyst for the asset. The latest purchase, worth roughly $74 million based on ether’s current price of around $1,750, lifted the
Strategy has sold 3,588 Bitcoin for $216 million to fund dividends on its Digital Credit securities. Summary Strategy sold 3,588 BTC to fund dividends tied to its Digital Credit securities structure. The sale follows a wider capital plan that allows limited Bitcoin monetization for liquidity needs. Bitcoin traders now watch whether the sale adds pressure
The Merge is happening soon! This post explains how and when the upgrade will happen, along with the client versions compatible with it. Kiln, an Ethereum merge testnet launched in early 2022, will be shut down during the week of September 12, 2022. Ropsten and Rinkeby are also deprecated and scheduled to be sunset in
A new class of Wall Street securities has grown from an experiment into a multibillion-dollar market in under two years, and a June 2026 research report from BitcoinTreasuries.net argues the expansion has just begun. The report, produced in partnership with the DeFi protocol Apyx, tracks the rise of preferred shares issued by public companies and
