Starknet taps EY Nightfall to bring institutional privacy to Ethereum rails
StarkWare is integrating EY’s Nightfall privacy protocol into Starknet to give institutions private payments and…
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Aave founder pitches $50T ‘abundance asset’ boom to drive DeFi
Aave Labs CEO Stani Kulechov said onchain lending could help accelerate the development of solar,…
Israel arrests two over Polymarket trades on military operations
Israeli authorities said a military reservist and a civilian were arrested after allegedly using classified…
Why blockchain TPS numbers often collapse in the real world
High TPS figures promise scale, but every additional transaction increases the burden on the very…
UK central bank taps companies for distributed ledger settlement
The six-month central bank pilot brings together market infrastructure providers, banks and Web3 companies to…
Tokenized commodities market crosses $6B amid gold’s historic rally
Tether Gold and the Paxos-listed PAX Gold account for over 95% of the tokenized commodities…
Robinhood launches Ethereum layer-2 testnet for tokenized assets
Robinhood is testing its own Arbitrum‑based Ethereum layer‑2, deepening its push into tokenized stocks and…
Ethereum Foundation teams up with SEAL to combat wallet drainers
SEAL and the Ethereum Foundation created a Trillion Dollar Security dashboard to track Ethereum security…
Base App sunsets Creator Rewards to double down on trading
Base creator Jesse Pollak said after rolling out the Base App to the public in…
Crypto guarantee service Xinbi processed $17.9B after Telegram ban: TRM Labs
TRM Labs says the $17.9 billion figure reflects gross onchain volume, including internal transfers, not…
NFT market cap slides back to 2021 pre-hype levels, near $1.5B
NFT minting expanded in 2025 even as sales fell sharply, leaving more tokens chasing fewer…
Crypto wallet provider Payy launches privacy-focused Ethereum L2
Payy’s new privacy layer 2 makes every ERC-20 transfer private by default without the need…
Startale, SBI launch blockchain for institutional FX, RWA trading
Strium will begin with synthetic US and Japanese stocks and commodities before expanding to real…
Vitalik Buterin tempers vision for ETH L2s, pushes native rollups
The Ethereum co-founder said many layer‑2s have failed to decentralize and continue to be mediated…
Real-world assets don’t need new gatekeepers
Permissioned blockchains and centralized layer 2s rebuild intermediaries for tokenized assets. Based rollups inherit Ethereum…