May 2, 2026
Bitcoin

Hyperliquid Weekend Volume Hits $1.4B on RWA Boom

Hyperliquid records $1.4B weekend volume and $1.3B open interest as RWA perps expand with HIP-3 markets for oil, gold, and stock indices. Real-world asset trading activity on Hyperliquid has increased rapidly during the past two weeks. Platform data shows weekend trading volume reaching $1.4 billion while open interest surpassed $1.3 billion. The growth reflects rising

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Crypto

CZ slams Etherscan over address poisoning spam

CZ goes after Etherscan for displaying spam transactions from address poisoning scams, stating block explorers should filter out the malicious transfers completely. Summary CZ says block explorers should filter address-poisoning spam. A user received 89 poisoning alerts in 30 minutes after two transfers. Attackers use lookalike addresses and zero-value transfers to trick users. The former

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Ethereum

Security Alert: Ethereum Constantinople Postponement

The Ethereum Core Developers and the Ethereum Security Community were made aware of the potential Constantinople-related issues identified by ChainSecurity on January 15, 2019. We are investigating any potential vulnerabilities and will follow with updates in this blog post and across social media channels. Out of an abundance of caution, key stakeholders around the Ethereum

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Bitcoin

Bitfinex Simplifies Visibility of Tokenised Securities with Unified Account Structure

Bitfinex has eliminated the need for a separate Securities sub-account — customers can now view their securities in their master account. Existing Securities sub-accounts will be converted into regular trading sub-accounts, preserving all current balances, credentials, 2FA settings, and withdrawal permissions. Master account holders can now view their full portfolio — from crypto to tokenised

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Crypto

U.S. expansion, regulation-ready messaging, and AI upgrades are giving cloud mining a new narrative in 2026

Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only. Cloud mining narrative shifts toward AI infrastructure as platforms like NOW DeFi attract renewed investor interest. Summary NOW DeFi introduces a simplified cloud mining model for hardware-free participation. NOW DeFi integrates AI optimization, automated

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Ethereum

Ethereum Foundation Grants Program Wave 5

The Ethereum Foundation Grants Program is an ongoing and continually improving experiment into how the EF can best invest the Ethereum community’s resources for the highest long-term impact on the Ethereum ecosystem. When the Grants Program began in early 2018, the core focus was on supporting scalability efforts. This focus later expanded to include security,

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Bitcoin

Token2049 Postponed: DC Blockchain Summit 2026 Is Now Center of Gravity

Token2049 Dubai has officially been postponed to 2027. That single scheduling change has shifted the entire industry’s focus to Washington, D.C., for the first half of 2026. The DC Blockchain Summit on March 17-18 is now the definitive signal for where crypto money is moving next. While other conferences focus on parties and networking, this

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Crypto

Ethereum Foundation publishes formal mandate to hard‑lock censorship resistance and privacy

The Ethereum Foundation’s new “EF Mandate” formalizes its role as steward of a censorship‑resistant, privacy‑first, open‑source base layer, signaling zero appetite for surveillance‑chain compromises. Summary The EF Mandate codifies the Foundation’s job as protecting Ethereum as a neutral, permissionless settlement layer, not a product chasing KPIs or short‑term metrics. It centers a CROPS‑style stack —

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Ethereum

Ethereum Constantinople/St. Petersburg Upgrade Announcement

The Ethereum network will be undergoing a scheduled upgrade at block number 7,280,000, which is predicted to occur on Thursday, February 28, 2019. The exact date is subject to change depending on block times between now and then and could be activated 1-2 days before or after. A countdown timer can be seen at https://amberdata.io/blocks/7280000.

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Bitcoin

Brazil industry giants representing 850 companies decry stablecoin tax threat

Brazil’s leading cryptocurrency and fintech industry groups have warned that expanding a financial transaction tax to stablecoin operations could harm innovation and violate existing law. In a joint statement shared with CoinDesk, industry associations ABcripto, ABFintechs, Abracam, ABToken and Zetta said recent discussions about extending a tax on financial operations (locally known as Imposto sobre

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