Bitcoin posts on X can pay even when Bitcoin doesn’t
You don’t have to own Bitcoin to make money from people getting excited about it. On X, just posting about it can be a business in itself, and the company…
ARK partners with Securitize to put a venture fund on Ethereum, but leaves exit doors locked
ARK Invest and Securitize announced on Sept. 24 that eligible investors would be able to hold tokenized interests in the ARK Venture Fund on Ethereum. This new ownership route puts…
Payy bridge exploit freezes crypto cards, and no balances remain safe
Payy has frozen its stablecoin payment network, including card transactions, after saying its Ethereum bridge contract was exploited and drained on Sept. 24. Its announcement covers deposits, withdrawals, transfers, and…
BlackRock sees a new $5 trillion AI trade emerging for stablecoins
BlackRock says AI could create a new class of stablecoin customer: machines that spend continuously without human approval. The world’s largest asset manager sees increasingly autonomous AI systems purchasing data,…
L2 growth and $120 billion in staking hide Ethereum’s supply reality
Ethereum’s institutional data hub showed about $120 billion in staked ETH and $40.4 billion in daily average total value locked on layer-2 (L2) networks in a Sept. 21 snapshot. They…
Will proposed faster block times really fix Ethereum’s biggest market losses?
Ethereum developers are weighing Ethereum Quick Slots for Hegotá, a proposed faster block rhythm that would reduce waiting without expanding the network’s per-second capacity. EIP-8198, or Quick Slots, remains Proposed…
Why TRON’s $30 trillion lifetime volume could become a trap
TRON has surpassed $30 trillion in lifetime transaction volume as its USDT-heavy network pushes deeper into payments and regulated finance. More than $94 billion of Tether’s USDT now circulates on…
Chainflip to reset TRON USDT provider balances to zero following $736,000 exploit
Chainflip will set affected liquidity providers’ active TRON USDT balances to zero under a restart plan responding to the 736,442.17 USDT exploit it disclosed on Sept. 12. The cross-chain swap…
Tether, Binance and a $1.5 billion Iran oil network converge in new US forfeiture case
US prosecutors are seeking to seize $61 million in Tether’s USDT tied to alleged black-market Iranian oil sales. On Sept. 14, the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of…
Paolo Ardoino says 650 million people decentralized US debt, but Tether still controls the T-bills
Paolo Ardoino offered a striking answer to a familiar U.S. debt problem: replace concentrated foreign buyers with hundreds of millions of stablecoin users. In an Aug. 31 episode of The…