Lighter’s LIT token has climbed more than 20% to around $3.90 as attention has returned to its Robinhood Wallet partnership and Delphi Digital’s assessment of the exchange. Summary Robinhood announced the wallet integration in July, months before the latest token rally. 11 million LIT tokens were allocated to a rewards program for eligible traders. Delphi
Development of Ethereum has been progressing increasingly quickly this past month. The release of PoC5 (“proof of concept five”) last month the day before the sale marked an important event for the project, as for the first time we had two clients, one written in C++ and one in Go, perfectly interoperating with each other
For more than a decade, the crypto industry has been building elaborate workarounds for a simple problem: tokens aren’t shares. They can govern a protocol, unlock a discount, signal membership in a community but they cannot, in most jurisdictions, entitle the holder to a dividend, a vote on the board, or a claim if the
Bitcoin has reclaimed $84,500 as the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has finalized its GENIUS Act stablecoin rules, while traders have added leveraged positions during the recovery. Summary Stablecoin regulations take effect Jan. 18, 2027, with existing rewards programs receiving no automatic exemption. Open interest rose 5.5% in Ted Pillows’ snapshot, outpacing Bitcoin’s
One of the key properties that is usually sought for in a cryptoeconomic algorithm, whether a blockchain consensus algorithm such a proof of work or proof of stake, a reputation system or a trading process for something like data transmission or file storage, is the ideal of incentive-compatibility – the idea that it should be
Kaspa’s KCC Coordination Forum has finalized three standards covering covenant interfaces, authorization, and fungible tokens, establishing shared specifications for developers building applications on the network. Summary KCC-1 defines shared interfaces for wallets, compilers, indexers, and other tools working with covenants. KCC-2 specifies five standard authorization schemes, including public keys, scripts, and covenant identifiers. KCC-20 sets
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Alan Kay January 3rd 2009 marked the beginning of a new era. The invention of the blockchain is a milestone in technology — the string of characters 36PrZ1KHYMpqSyAQXSG8VwbUiq2EogxLo2 being just one of the side effects triggered by it. Thanks to you and this technology, more
Deepseek AI predicts Chainlink could be about to do something crazy. It believes that if certain catalysts align, LINK could print a number so ridiculous that today’s $12 handle will look like a rounding error on a spreadsheet from a forgotten bear market. Hold that thought. Here’s the wildly optimistic and highly improbable scenario that
Stablecoin shopping has drawn a pitch for randomized retail purchases after Peter of 1kx predicted a $10 billion-plus business opportunity and Josip Volarević described SP3ND’s work on a gacha buying experience. Summary SP3ND’s published rules require identity checks for orders worth $10,000 or more. Josip Volarević described randomized shopping as development work, without providing a
Over the next few weeks, I am going to make a series of posts that is going to be a large overview of the possibilities for scalability of Ethereum, intending to create a precise understanding of the problems at bay in implementing a scalable cryptocurrency infrastructure, and where the least-bad tradeoffs and sacrifices required to
