Revolut wins VARA in-principle approval for regulated crypto services in the UAE. UAE users will access Revolut app and Revolut X after final regulatory approval. Approval supports Revolut’s global expansion across regulated digital asset markets. Revolut has received in-principle approval from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) to expand its cryptocurrency services in the United
A new academic study has found that Polymarket’s five-minute Bitcoin prediction contracts have created incentives for sophisticated traders to manipulate spot prices and profit at the expense of ordinary participants. Summary Stanford researchers link Polymarket’s five-minute Bitcoin markets to settlement-price manipulation. The study estimates about $1.28 million shifted from retail traders to sophisticated participants. Researchers
Testnets, testnets, testnets! tl;dr Medalla testnet Following the excellent stability of Altona and based on conversations with eth2 client teams, Medalla – the next multi-client testnet – will have a MIN_GENESIS_TIME of 1596546000 (or for those of you that don’t think in unix time — August 4th, 2020, 1pm UTC)! This is a major step
The softest US inflation print since 2020 drove bitcoin to a $65,086 close on Tuesday, up 4.4 percent and its highest level since 22 June. A repricing of macroeconomic expectations powered the move. Spot Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) had shed $424.7 million on 13 July, reversing the gains of the prior week, itself the first
Ostium has halted trading after an exploit tied to a compromised oracle signer key drained nearly $18 million USDC from its liquidity vault, according to blockchain security firm Blockaid. Summary Blockaid linked Ostium’s $18 million exploit to a compromised oracle signer key. The attacker drained up to 28% of the protocol’s $63 million liquidity vault.
After months of hard work from the eth2 research team, along with Consensys and DeepWork Studio, we’re happy to announce the release of the eth2 validator launchpad (testnet version). We’re releasing it now so that you can keep track of, and make deposits into, the upcoming Medalla multi-client testnet. But we’ll continue to fine-tune the
Pump.fun completed its first major insider token unlock on July 15, 2026, distributing 57.279 billion PUMP tokens valued at approximately $86.49M across 121 wallets, the largest single Solana token unlock of the month. The unlock ended a 12-month vesting cliff for team and existing investor allocations, meaning insiders could access tokens for the first time
SpaceX stock has steadied above its IPO price after Needham raised its price target to $250 despite growing warnings that an AI stock bubble could threaten financial markets. Summary Needham raised its SpaceX price target to $250 and maintained a buy rating despite growing AI bubble concerns. Bank of England Governor David Bailey warned an
Ethereum can be simple enough to understand from a bird’s-eye view: Decentralized applications powered by the same sort of crypto-economic guarantees that underpin Bitcoin. But once you’ve zoomed in to, say, a street-level view, things get complicated rapidly. Even assuming one has a strong grasp on proof-of-work, it’s not immediately clear how that translates to
BlackRock has joined a Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation pilot that has begun tokenizing stocks and U.S. Treasuries within a market infrastructure that safeguards about $114 trillion in assets. Summary DTCC has launched a tokenization pilot with BlackRock, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and nearly 40 financial firms. Microsoft, Circle, QQQ, SPY, and BlackRock Treasury ETF are
