In the past two weeks our lead C++ developer, Gavin Wood, and myself have been spending a lot of time meeting the local Ethereum community in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. We were very excited to see such a large amount of interest in our project, and the fact that after only two months we
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One of the main applications of Ethereum that people have been interested in is financial contracts and derivatives. Although financial derivatives have acquired a reputation as a highly risky and destabilizing device with the sole function of enriching speculators, the underlying concept in fact has a number of legitimate uses, some of which actually help
Understandably, one must be “strong-willed” to buy Ethereum, XRP, or any top-10 altcoin looking at prevailing market conditions. The past few weeks have been brutal for promising tokens. And this is expected to continue as long as Bitcoin struggles for momentum. To put in numbers, Ethereum is down from December 2025 highs of near $3,500.
Top Wall Street firms met with the SEC this week to voice concerns over the regulator’s aggressive new approach to digital assets, highlighting growing tensions between traditional finance and the crypto sector. Summary JPMorgan, Citadel, and SIFMA representatives sat down with the SEC’s crypto task force. The firms warned that regulatory relief based on technology
The content of this tutorial is intended to apply to PoC5. Most of the instructions given below will not work in the older PoC4 implementations of AlethZero (C++) and Ethereal (Go) Over the last few weeks, we have made a large number of changes to the Ethereum protocol. POC4, introducing a large body of changes
Strive, Inc. announced today that it has closed an upsized and oversubscribed follow-on offering of its Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, raising $225 million amid strong institutional demand and accelerating the retirement of legacy debt from its Semler Scientific acquisition. The Dallas-based firm said it sold 1.32 million shares of the preferred stock
Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. Traditional crowdfunding platforms have long helped finance creative projects, humanitarian aid needs, and early-stage companies, but the model is showing cracks that are hard to ignore. The issue isn’t the idea of
Ether (ETH), the cryptofuel that powers distributed applications on the Ethereum platform, will be issued at a constant annual linear rate via the block mining process. This rate is 0.3 times the total amount of ETH that will be purchased in the pre-sale. While the best metaphor for ETH is “fuel for running the contract
Founders Fund-backed Bitcoin platform, Citrea, unveils Bitcoin-secured application platform, unlocking institutional and worldwide access to Bitcoin-denominated markets GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, Jan. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Citrea, the Bitcoin application platform backed by Founders Fund and Galaxy Ventures, announced the launch of its mainnet, enabling capital market activity directly on the Bitcoin network. Citrea also has gone live with
