May 1, 2026
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Crypto

Kraken xStocks launches xChange for on-chain stock trading

Kraken-backed xStocks has launched a new on-chain trading engine designed to connect traditional equity liquidity with decentralized finance infrastructure. Summary xStocks introduced xChange, an on-chain trading engine for tokenized stocks. Users can trade 70+ tokenized equities across Ethereum and Solana. The platform has already recorded $3.5B on-chain volume, $25B total trading volume, and 80,000 holders. In a March 5 announcement, Kraken said

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Ethereum

Allocation Update: Q1 2021 | Ethereum Foundation Blog

Community & education China ecosystem development ETHPlanet Support for ETHPlanet’s ecosystem building initiatives in China, including working with students and universities, events, community organization, and educational resources. Community & education DE-FERENCE Decipher Research and discussion-focused blockchain conference run by Decipher, a blockchain society at Seoul National University. Community & education Devspace Virtual Hackathon Computer Society

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Bitcoin

Crypto Holder Targeted in Violent Attack as $24M in Stablecoins Is Drained

Violent attack on trader Sillytuna exposes a growing risk as criminals target crypto holders directly instead of exploiting smart contracts. A crypto trader known as Sillytuna lost more than $24 million in digital assets after a violent physical attack. Threats reportedly forced the victim to grant access to personal wallets holding large stablecoin balances. Within

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Crypto

Mantle’s stablecoin surges 75% in 30 days as liquidity flywheel kicks in

Mantle’s ecosystem stablecoin has added roughly 375 million dollars in market value over the past month, climbing from about 494 million to nearly 870 million and cementing the network’s push to become a full‑stack on‑chain liquidity and banking layer built around ETH staking and restaking primitives. Summary Stablecoin market cap jumps 75% in 30 days,

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Ethereum

London Mainnet Announcement | Ethereum Foundation Blog

Important Update On July 21, 2021, a consensus issue was identified on the Ropsten network, where the go-ethereum, Erigon and Nethermind implementations had different transaction validation logic than Besu and OpenEthereum. New versions of the affected clients have been released and are linked in the “Client Versions” table below. The block number for London is

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Crypto

Core Scientific secures up to $1b financing from Morgan Stanley

Core Scientific has lined up a $500m loan from Morgan Stanley, with an option to double it. Summary Core Scientific obtained a 364-day, $500m facility from Morgan Stanley, expandable to $1b. Proceeds will fund real estate, development costs and new energy contracts as the firm pivots toward AI workloads. The financing underscores rising Wall Street

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Bitcoin

Bitfinex Alpha | Calmness Descends on BTC

03 Nov Bitfinex Alpha | Calmness Descends on BTC Posted on 3 November, 2025 in Bitfinex Alpha by Maria Lobusova Subscribeto Bitfinex Alpha! Want to receive Alpha from Bitfinex every week? Subscribe Bitcoin has spent the past two weeks confined within a narrow $106,000–$116,000 range. Despite a brief relief rally to $116,500 last week, BTC

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Ethereum

Road to Devcon Meetup and Event Grants

Community organizers are the glue that holds the Ethereum ecosystem together, and whether they’re leading large-scale events, local meetups, hackathons or seminars, we might all be wandering in the dark forest of the analog world without them. But where’s the fun in relying on chance encounters with kindred spirits identified by a telltale laptop sticker,

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Crypto

On-chain mortgages will start in the Gulf

Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. Few places in the world have advanced as quickly as the Gulf. It’s a place filled with skylines that rise almost overnight, governments that execute on their promises, and an appetite for

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Bitcoin

Is Bitcoin Dominance Back? Altcoin Social Media Interest Falls to 2-Year Low

Bitcoin just pulled off a massive, nearly 10% rally, briefly touching $74,000 yesterday before settling around its current trading price of $72,890. Yet, despite this impressive surge from the market leader, the broader altcoin market hasn’t exactly followed suit. And Bitcoin dominance keeps rising. If you’re noticing a deafening silence on X and in Telegram

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