Revolut secures a full UK banking license, rolling out FSCS‑protected deposits for 13 million users while keeping crypto trading outside deposit insurance. Summary Revolut wins PRA approval to launch Revolut Bank UK with full banking status. UK customers gain FSCS protection up to £85,000 as accounts migrate in phases. Crypto trading remains in a separate,
January 14th tl;dc (too long, didn’t call) Disclaimer: This is a digest of the topics discussed in the recurring Eth1.x research call, and doesn’t represent finalized plans or commitments to network upgrades. The main topics of this call were Rough data quantifying advantages of switching to a binary trie structure Transition strategies and potential challenges
The world’s second largest insurance broker is teaming up with the crypto exchange Coinbase and the Paypal USD (PYUSD) issuer Paxos to support stablecoin payments for insurance premiums. Aon plc says that it successfully demonstrated a proof of concept for insurance premium payment using dollar-backed stablecoins. The firm says it worked with Coinbase and Paxos
Arthur Hayes, the co-founder of BitMEX, revealed his latest Bitcoin prediction: put down the buy button for now. Speaking on the Coin Stories podcast, the usually hyper-bullish trader admitted that if he had $1 to invest right now, he wouldn’t put it into Bitcoin. He is strictly in wait-and-see mode. Despite his Bitcoin price prediction
The price of Across Protocol token surged sharply after a governance proposal suggested a major structural shift for the project. Summary Across Protocol token jumped 85% as a proposal suggests converting tokens into company shares. Holders could exchange ACX for equity in a new US C-corp or sell tokens for USDC in a buyout offer. The move is
I started to write a post that detailed a “roadmap” for Ethereum 1.x research and the path to stateless Ethereum, and realized that it’s not actually a roadmap at all —— at least not in the sense we’re used to seeing from something like a product or company. The 1.x team, although working toward a
After retreating back to the $69,000 area during early U.S. morning hours Wednesday, bitcoin BTC$70,566.07 has quickly spiked to nearly $71,000. Other crypto assets, including ether (ETH), solana (SOL) and XRP, saw the same sharp moves higher. The gains appeared to come as crude oil quickly reversed most of its session’s large gains, dropping $3
Osmosis has proposed converting OSMO to ATOM and tightening Cosmos Hub integration, testing whether chain mergers can boost liquidity, governance, and valuations. Summary Osmosis plan offers OSMO–ATOM conversion at a fixed rate over six months, with unclaimed ATOM returning to the Hub community pool. Proposal would bind Osmosis liquidity, security, and governance more tightly to
The try/catch syntax introduced in 0.6.0 is arguably the biggest leap in error handling capabilities in Solidity, since reason strings for revert and require were released in v0.4.22. Both try and catch have been reserved keywords since v0.5.9 and now we can use them to handle failures in external function calls without rolling back the
Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only. As Bitcoin rebounds toward $70,000, cloud mining platform KT DeFi is drawing investor attention as an alternative income strategy. Summary Strong market inflows: Crypto investment products recorded $619M in weekly inflows as Bitcoin approached
