After an additional two months of work after the release of the first python proof of concept release of Serenity, I am pleased to announce that Serenity PoC2 is now available. Although the release continues to be far from a testnet-ready client, much less a production-ready one, PoC2 brings with it a number of important
Bitcoin is likely to stay range-bound, said Jeff Ko, chief analyst at CoinEx, and he points to three reasons the backdrop has calmed. Oil has retreated from last week’s highs after another pause in U.S.-Iran hostilities. The 10-year Treasury yield, approaching 4.7%, is doing part of the Fed’s tightening work on its own. And the
Garden Finance has temporarily taken its application offline after an attacker compromised the off-chain database of an independent solver, leading to the loss of solver-owned digital assets while leaving protocol contracts and user funds unaffected. Summary Garden Finance temporarily took its app offline after an independent solver’s off chain database was compromised, resulting in the
Ethereum’s present reliance on Proof of Work (PoW) mining is not ideal, and while we continue to work with gusto towards a Proof of Stake solution (PoS), we have to live with PoW as gracefully as possible (at least until the eventual switch!). Meanwhile, in the interest of overall network health, mining decentralization and diversity
The Smarter Web Company has sold a portion of its Bitcoin treasury to repay an $11.7 million convertible debt facility held by TOBAM, a move the company frames as a choice for balance-sheet flexibility over equity dilution. The company sold 177.8909127 BTC at an average price of $65,762 to retire the instrument, known as the
Upbit has added Morpho (MORPHO) and Euler (EUL) to its Korean won market, expanding direct KRW trading for two Ethereum-based decentralized lending projects in Korea. Summary Upbit added MORPHO and EUL KRW pairs, giving traders access to two DeFi lending tokens. Euler’s KRW trading launch moved to 2:00 p.m. KST, two hours later than initially
Consensys and Microsoft have announced that the Ethereum contract programming language Solidity will be available in Microsoft’s Visual Studio integrated development environment. ConsenSys and Microsoft collaborated on this integration to enable developers to rapidly build smart contract-based applications for the public Ethereum blockchain, as well as private and consortium blockchain deployments based on Ethereum. This
SUI trades in $0.60-$0.90 accumulation range as traders watch $5, $10, $20 targets and a $2B market-cap retest before $70B target. SUI is back in trader focus after new market commentary pointed to a possible accumulation phase. The discussion centres on whether buyers are building positions before a wider price recovery. Crypto Patel said SUI
Uniswap Labs has launched Permissioned Pools on Uniswap v4, adding onchain access checks for regulated assets that cannot trade freely between every wallet. Summary Permissioned Pools check issuer-managed allowlists before swaps or liquidity actions can proceed through Uniswap v4. Superstate, Securitize, and Dowgo helped build compliant trading infrastructure for tokenized funds, equities, and securities. Regular
The Ethereum Foundation has announced that it will be working with the New York-based banking consortium R3CEV on creating a new blockchain-based cryptocurrency, Lizardcoin, which aims to showcase the benefits of blockchain technology as well as the consortium’s ability to bring the technology to institutional clients and the regulation-loving masses by supplementing it with a
