The successful retest of the Monthly Open on March 8th was an early sign that strength was beginning to return to bitcoin markets, after over four months of persistent weakness. This was also borne out by strong exchange-traded fund (ETF) flows and a shift in spot dynamics that allowed price to hold a key psychological
The Louisiana State Employees’ Retirement System has increased its stake in Strategy, giving the public pension fund more indirect exposure to Bitcoin through the Nasdaq-listed company. Summary Louisiana’s pension fund raised its Strategy holding to 21,300 shares, increasing indirect exposure to Bitcoin. The $16.3 billion retirement system added 700 MSTR shares from its first-quarter holding
Development has steadily continued over the last month and a half as we approach the launch of Metropolis. Over a series of core dev calls over the last few months, we have specified and finalized the EIPs for Metropolis, and made the appropriate changes to the Yellow Paper. Metropolis has now been split up into
Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced on July 21, 2026, that the messaging app will roll out a native, non-custodial wallet across all versions of its app, targeting more than 1 billion monthly active users with instant, zero-fee crypto transactions. GRAM, the native token of The Open Network (TON) blockchain, jumped roughly +7% on the news,
Crypto-related “wrench attacks” continued through the first half of 2026, with 52 verified incidents worldwide and $124.1 million in recorded financial exposure, according to CertiK. Summary CertiK recorded 52 wrench attacks in H1 2026, with financial exposure reaching $124.1 million worldwide. France accounted for 33 verified incidents as Europe became main center of physical crypto
The Go Ethereum team is proud to announce the next release family of Geth, the first incarnation focusing on laying the groundwork for the upcoming Metropolis hard forks (Byzantium and Constantinople), consisting of 125+ code contributions for various parts of the project. Byzantium fork The current incarnation of Geth contains all the Byzantium EIPs implemented and
A group of Democrat Senators said in a statement late Wednesday that the bill still fell “short” of where it needed to be to get their support, but that they would keep working on it with Republicans. Senator Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, argued Wednesday that the policy as written
Japan could launch its first Bitcoin exchange-traded fund as early as 2028 as regulators prepare rules that would allow investment trusts and ETFs to hold crypto assets directly. Summary Japan could approve its first Bitcoin ETF by 2028 as financial rules continue evolving nationwide. Major Japanese asset managers are preparing crypto funds while regulators work
Metropolis is finally (almost) here! The fork for Byzantium, the first and larger part of Metropolis, succeeded on the testnet over two weeks ago, and the likely date for the fork on the mainnet has been set to block 4.37 million, which is expected to be on Oct 17. New features include opcodes such as REVERT
Zhibao Technology, a Shanghai-based insurance-technology firm listed on the Nasdaq, said Wednesday it has signed a non-binding term sheet for a stock sale that would be paid for in bitcoin — some 3,500 coins, worth near $220 million at current prices. The deal, a private investment in public equity known as a PIPE, would have
