Citrea has launched its mainnet, introducing a Bitcoin-native application layer built for on-chain trading, lending, and settlement. Summary Citrea went live on Jan. 27 with a ZK-rollup designed to support Bitcoin-native applications The network introduces cBTC and ctUSD for trust-minimized BTC use and stablecoin liquidity Citrea launched with more than 30 Bitcoin-secured applications at mainnet
One of the challenges when creating a new cryptocurrency is figuring out what the distribution model is going to be. Who is going to receive the currency units, at what time, and what is the mechanism that decides? Despite the crucial importance of this question, there has actually been comparatively little thought into the issue
XRP has maintained a price level around $2 for approximately 14 months. Summary XRP entered a correction phase following a rally that began in late 2024. The price level near $2 has served as a support zone over the 14-month period. Funding rates on major cryptocurrency exchanges have remained predominantly negative since December. The cryptocurrency
The global cryptocurrency market remains a powerhouse, holding a $3.12 trillion valuation as daily liquidations exceed $1 billion, highlighting extreme volatility. Legacy assets show mixed signals, with Zcash testing key support near $356 and the Chainlink price prediction pointing to a possible move toward $28.69 after institutional futures developments. Yet, their mature market size limits
Although truly solving blockchain scalability fundamentally, that is to say figuring out a solution to the problem that every node must process every transaction, is a very hard problem, and all suggested solutions rely on either highly advanced cryptography or intricate multi-blockchain architectures, partial solutions that provide a constant-factor improvement over the way Bitcoin does
Media personality Tucker Carlson and economist Peter Schiff engaged in a debate this week over Bitcoin’s potential to replace the U.S. dollar, touching on issues of inflation, government spending and the future of monetary policy. Summary Schiff characterized a proposal to establish a U.S. strategic Bitcoin reserve as a taxpayer-funded bailout for early adopters. Carlson
Development of the Ethereum project has gone very well over the months since inception. The core activity — development of the software platform — is on track and many developers around the world are starting to build small, exploratory distributed applications on the platform, even though we are still not yet in alpha release. The
27 Jan What is USAT (USAt)? Posted at 14:58h in Education by Maria Lobusova USAt is a US-regulated, dollar-backed stablecoin created by Tether specifically for the American market. Issued by Anchorage Digital Bank — the first and only federally chartered crypto bank — with reserves managed by Cantor Fitzgerald, USAt maintains a 1:1 peg to
Ripple Labs and its executives have sold or distributed approximately 58.515 billion XRP tokens since the cryptocurrency’s launch in 2012, according to an analysis comparing original allocations with current on-chain holdings. Summary Current holdings data indicates that Ripple’s executives control approximately 41.485 billion XRP. XRP launched in 2012 with a fixed supply of 100 billion
Decentralization, n. The security assumption that a nineteen year old in Hangzhou and someone who is maybe in the UK, and maybe not, have not yet decided to collude with each other. There has been a large amount of ruckus in the past week about the issue of mining centralization in the Bitcoin network. We
