Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. As crypto matures, one of the industry’s biggest illusions is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore: users are not financially free if their assets are trapped inside a single blockchain. This means there
This is a second post on a series on how to use the current Ethereum tools to build smart contracts without needing programming experience. Download the latest version of the Ethereum Wallet, read the first part and let’s have fun! Creating a token is fun, but what is the value of a token that doesn’t do
Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko has challenged Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin’s vision for blockchain protocol development. Summary Yakovenko says Solana must keep iterating and warns stagnation kills protocols. Vitalik argues Ethereum should function long-term without mandatory upgrades. The debate contrasts perpetual innovation with resilience through ossification. Yakovenko argues that Solana must continue iterating indefinitely, warning that
China reportedly cut its U.S. Treasury holdings for a ninth straight month, pushing exposure to the lowest level since 2008. Bitcoin held firm near recent highs as gold surged toward $4,200, showing how markets react when faith in U.S. debt slips. This move fits a wider trend: central banks are slowly stepping away from the
This is the third and final post on a series on how to use the Ethereum Wallet to create your own autonomous organisations. On the first post we detailed how to create a token, and on the second we shown how to generate a digital democracy controlled by these tokens. Now we will do the
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $1.42 billion in net inflows during the trading week of January 12-16, 2026. Summary Bitcoin spot ETFs attracted $1.42B in weekly inflows, reversing prior losses. BlackRock’s IBIT captured 73% of Bitcoin ETF inflows during the week. Ethereum ETFs added $479M, led by ETHA with nearly half of flows. BlackRock’s IBIT
Special thanks to Gavin Wood for prompting my interest into abstraction improvements, and Martin Becze, Vlad Zamfir and Dominic Williams for ongoing discussions. For a long time we have been public about our plans to continue improving the Ethereum protocol over time and our long development roadmap, learning from our mistakes that we either did
The so-called Fish-to-Shark cohort added 110,000 BTC over the past 30 days, according to Glassnode. Source link
The Hyperliquid Foundation has donated 10,000 HYPE tokens to blockchain investigator ZachXBT. The contribution, valued at approximately $254,000, ranks as his second-largest donation from any single entity. Summary Hyperliquid donated 10,000 HYPE worth $254K, ZachXBT’s second-largest single contribution. ZachXBT confirmed the donation on Jan. 18 and updated his public contributor leaderboard. The donation followed his
Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir for introducing the idea of by-block consensus and convincing me of its merits, alongside many of the other core ideas of Casper, and to Vlad Zamfir and Greg Meredith for their continued work on the protocol In the last post in this series, we discussed one of the two flagship
