Oh you, Spadina, Finally, finality Hello and farewell tl;dr A quick Spadina postmortem New testnet: Zinken. Launchpad is live; Genesis deposits due in one week! Spadina Postmortem The Spadina testnet dress rehearsal launched this past Tuesday. Although Spadina is now healthy and finalizing, the launch was not as smooth sailing as it could have been.
Roughly $2.6 billion in Bitcoin options are set to expire this Friday. This represents a significant amount of liquidity shifting hands in a single morning but is relatively contained compared to other options expiring events. However, with the weekend comes thinner liquidity. Following Monday’s rally, the market is in a state of suspense. Ethereum remains
Kalshi faces a class-action lawsuit over disputed payouts totaling approximately $54 million related to bets on Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s departure from office. Summary Kalshi faces a $54M class-action lawsuit over disputed Khamenei bets. Traders say the platform retroactively excluded death-based outcomes. Kalshi argues the death exclusion existed from the market’s launch. Users who
Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded $568.45 million in net inflows for the week ending March 6 and were the second consecutive week of positive flows. Summary Bitcoin ETFs recorded $568.45M weekly inflows. A $1.15B buying wave from March 2–4 offset $576M in late-week outflows. Ethereum ETFs added $23.56M, but heavy redemptions erased most midweek gains. Three
Key senators critical to advancing the crypto market structure legislation may soon be willing to move forward on the bill, individuals familiar tell CoinDesk. You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the intersection of cryptocurrency and government. Click here to sign up for future editions. Crypto negotiators’ hopes are bubbling up over
Hey Ethereum community! We last spoke August 5 – how you been? We’re here to talk about something fresh we’ve shipped. Maybe you’ve already noticed, but we’ve got a new Developers section. For a long time, this content was a wall of links to products you might find helpful when building a dapp. We provided
Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. Tokenization reaching Wall Street is a headline. Building compliant, liquid, enforceable on-chain markets is the real test. Without infrastructure, issuance is just digitization. Summary Issuance isn’t innovation: Tokenizing equities is a milestone,
Contract deployment Genesis deposits Bootstrap consensus tl;dr v1.0 specs released 🚀 v1.0 spec release Today, we released v1.0 of the eth2 specs, including the mainnet deposit contract address — 0x00000000219ab540356cBB839Cbe05303d7705Fa. eth2 will have a MIN_GENESIS_TIME of 1606824000 (or for those of you who don’t think in unix time — December 1, 2020, 12pm UTC). To
Mike Selig, Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and one of the most consequential figures in American crypto regulation, has been officially confirmed as a speaker at Bitcoin 2026 — bringing the voice of Washington’s most Bitcoin-forward regulatory agency to the world’s largest Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas. Confirmed by the U.S. Senate
Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only. As Ethereum and Solana recover, investors rotate capital into DeFi utility projects built on major Layer-1 networks. Summary As crypto markets stabilize, lending protocol Mutuum Finance gains traction, raising $20.7m and growing to 19k
