Special thanks to Robert Sams for the development of Seignorage Shares and insights regarding how to correctly value volatile coins in multi-currency systems Note: we are not planning on adding price stabilization to ether; our philosophy has always been to keep ether simple to minimize black-swan risks. Results of this research will likely go into
South Korean prosecutors are investigating the disappearance of approximately $48 million in seized Bitcoin following a suspected phishing attack, according to local media reports. Summary Gwangju District Prosecutors’ Office found roughly 70 billion won (about $48m) in seized Bitcoin missing during a routine audit of confiscated assets. Local reports say an employee accessed a fake
Judge Jed Rakoff’s essay “It’s a Racket!” reads less like analysis than confession. He opens with a dictionary definition of cryptocurrency and proceeds to explain why systems that operate outside government control are dangerous. This framing reveals the core assumption beneath the essay: money is legitimate only when sanctioned, supervised, and reversible at the discretion
Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir for much of the thinking behind multi-chain cryptoeconomic paradigms First off, a history lesson. In October 2013, when I was visiting Israel as part of my trip around the Bitcoin world, I came to know the core teams behind the colored coins and Mastercoin projects. Once I properly understood Mastercoin
Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. During this year’s flagship robotics conference, six of the field’s most influential researchers gathered to debate a simple, but loaded question: Will data solve robotics and automation? Summary Scale vs. theory misses
I’m Gavin Wood, a co-founder of Ethereum and, along with Vitalik Buterin and Jeffrey Wilcke, one of the three directors of the Eth Dev, the NFP organisation that is managing the development (under contract from Ethereum Suisse) of the Ethereum blockchain. This is a small update to let you all know what has been going
A16z crypto analyst discloses that quantum computers will not pose a threat to Bitcoin in the near future. Find out why post-quantum encryption must be deployed immediately, but signatures can be delayed. A16z crypto has disproved the common belief that quantum computing will overnight annihilate Bitcoin. The recent analysis of the venture firm differentiates between
Tether led crypto protocol revenue in 2025 with approximately $5.2 billion, accounting for 41.9% of total revenue across 168 revenue-generating protocols, according to CoinGecko Research. Summary Tether led all crypto protocols in 2025 with $5.2B, or 41.9% of total revenue. Four stablecoin issuers generated nearly $8.3B, dominating protocol earnings. Trading platform revenue proved volatile, while
One of the latest ideas that has come to recently achieve some prominence in parts of the Bitcoin community is the line of thinking that has been described by both myself and others as “Bitcoin dominance maximalism” or just “Bitcoin maximalism” for short – essentially, the idea that an environment of multiple competing cryptocurrencies is
25 Jan Ethereum’s Record Throughput, Low Fee Paradox — Implications for Institutions and the EVM Ecosystem Posted at 10:18h in Education by Maria Lobusova Ethereum processed just over 2.88 million transactions in a single day last Friday — the highest daily total in its history. What made this moment particularly noteworthy was that it occurred
