Protocol developers often come across as more pessimistic about Bitcoin’s future than most Bitcoiners. Daily exposure to Bitcoin’s imperfections certainly shapes a sober perspective, and it’s important to reflect on what Bitcoin has achieved. Anyone in the world, no matter their race, age, gender, nationality, or any other arbitrary criterion, is able to store and
Bitcoin-focused Solv Protocol was exploited on Thursday, resulting in roughly $2.7 million worth of funds drained from one of its token vaults. The project has offered a 10% bounty to the attackers. Summary Solv Protocol lost about $2.7 million after an exploit drained 38 SolvBTC from one of its Bitcoin Reserve Offering vaults, with fewer
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Chainalysis reports $154B in illicit crypto in 2026, $2B stolen by DPRK hackers, and a 694% surge in sanctioned entity activity. Global cryptocurrency adoption continues to expand, yet criminal use of digital assets remains a concern for regulators and investigators. The Chainalysis 2026 Crypto Crime Report states that illicit cryptocurrency activity reached about $154 billion.
Ethereum derivatives markets saw a sharp bout of deleveraging over the past day, with total ETH contract open interest across major centralized exchanges falling 5.62% to 27.119 billion dollars, according to Coinglass data. Summary ETH total network contract open interest slid 5.62% in 24 hours to 27.119 billion dollars. Binance leads with 5.74 billion
TL;DR: Ethereum will use at least ~99.95% less energy post merge. Ethereum will be completing the transition to Proof-of-Stake in the upcoming months, which brings a myriad of improvements that have been theorized for years. But now that the Beacon chain has been running for a few months, we can actually dig into the numbers.
30 Oct Change Log: Version 1.123 Posted on 30 October, 2025 in Change Log by Maria Lobusova The Bitfinex Change Log is an overview of all performance and UI changes made to the Bitfinex trading platform. For an overview of all previous changes, please refer to blog.bitfinex.com/category/changelogs. Version 1.123 Improvements Updated to add a tooltip
Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only. BlockDAG (BDAG) has launched simultaneously on several exchanges at a $0.05 starting price, drawing attention from market makers who model a potential move toward $0.20 in the short term and as high as $0.50
With this blog post, the intention is to officially disclose a severe threat against the Ethereum platform, which was a clear and present danger up until the Berlin hardfork. State Let’s begin with some background on Ethereum and State. The Ethereum state consists of a patricia-merkle trie, a prefix-tree. This post won’t go into it
Monero price has confirmed a bullish market structure shift on the daily timeframe after reclaiming key support. If the $357 level continues to hold, the next major upside target sits at the $473 resistance. Summary Bullish structure confirmed: Monero printed a higher low followed by a new higher high on the daily chart. $357 flipped to
