Vitalik Buterin suggests an options-based DeFi model that removes liquidations and uses slow oracles to improve security and stability. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has outlined a new approach to decentralized finance that could reduce liquidation risks. In a post, Buterin proposed building index-tracking assets on top of options rather than collateralized debt positions (CDPs). The
Ethereum’s last two major upgrades were focused squarely on Layer 2s. Glamsterdam, targeted to ship in H1 2026, is about improving Layer 1 — not just in terms of speed and efficiency but also the entire block production process. With execution increasingly migrating to L2s and Ethereum itself taking shape as the ecosystem’s underlying settlement
ADA holders just vetoed a 7.8 million ADA proposal, roughly $2 million, to fund the Cardano Summit 2026 in Singapore, and the Cardano Foundation has confirmed the event is cancelled. That outcome matters beyond one conference. It is the clearest real-world proof yet that Cardano’s shift to on-chain governance has real teeth. Market Cap 24h
Crypto investment products recorded their second-largest weekly outflow of 2026 by the end of May, with investors pulling $1.67 billion from digital asset funds as geopolitical tensions and a broader risk-off mood weighed on markets, according to a report from CoinShares. The withdrawals marked the third consecutive week of net outflows and brought total redemptions
Strive, Inc. (ASST), the publicly traded Bitcoin treasury and asset management company, announced Monday that it plans to dramatically upsize its at-the-market (ATM) capital programs by a combined $4.2 billion — adding $2.1 billion each to its Class A common stock (ASST) and Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock (SATA) programs — in what
Bitmine owns 4.49% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million Bitmine is 90% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 11 months Ethereum continues to benefit from the dual tailwinds of Wall Street tokenizing on the blockchain and from agentic AI systems increasingly needing public and neutral blockchains Bitmine has
Binance lets non-U.S. crypto users trade 7,000+ U.S. stocks and ETFs with fractional shares from $5. Here’s what you need to know. Binance has taken a major step toward becoming a full-scale financial platform. The world’s largest crypto exchange now lets eligible non-U.S. users trade over 7,000 U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs. Users can fund these
AI trading agents now execute a growing share of crypto order flow with little or no human input — but the safeguards around them have not kept pace. The result is a new kind of market risk that shows up both in individual account security and in the collective behaviour of autonomous systems at scale.
In crypto news today (June 1), the market has started the new month in a precarious position, with Bitcoin dropping -1.4% overnight, losing key support at $73,000, and currently trading around $72,700. However, ETH USD, in typical fashion, has performed worse, down -2.5% in the past 24 hours and trading for $1,975 after losing key
Putting real-world investments onchain, a process called tokenization, is moving out of the testing phase and into everyday business. Citi’s new report Tokenization 2030: Wall Street On-Chain shared with CoinDesk ahead of Proof of Talk in Paris, shows that the global market for thse digital investments sits at just $17 billion today. However, Citi expects
