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Ethereum's co-founder posted a live stylometry challenge: find the anonymous document he secretly authored. Hours in, AI tools and community sleuths have come up empty.
Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin endorsed Joseph Chalom's 'Ethereum Going Back on Offense' essay on May 29, 2026, just days after SharpLink confirmed Russell 2000 and 3000 inclusion. Eight senior EF d
OKX launched Exchange OS on May 26, 2026, introducing a venue-based builder model that challenges Hyperliquid's frontend-first approach. Builders can now deploy full trading venues — spot, perps, outc
Chia Network CEO Gene Hoffman responded on X to critics arguing SEC concerns over third-party tokenized equities without issuer consent could block Permuto Capital's product, citing the 1980s Americus
Socket Research uncovered TrapDoor on May 24, 2026 — 36 malicious packages across three registries that steal crypto wallets and cloud credentials, and embed hidden AI-config instructions to automate
X pushed a substantive May 15 update to its open-source algorithm repo, shipping a runnable Phoenix model and Grox content pipeline. Here's what DeFi builders need to know.
Phantom wallet earned $20M in builder code fees routing $37B in perps volume on Hyperliquid since July 2025. Here's what the milestone reveals about the permissionless distribution economy.
Schwab Crypto launches in phased rollout, giving ~39 million brokerage account holders direct access to BTC and ETH at 0.75% per trade — a major TradFi inflection point.
Grayscale's S-3 filing to convert its Zcash Trust into the first US spot privacy coin ETF is still pending at the SEC, but ZEC has already surged more than 110% in 30 days on institutional accumulatio
Justin Sun filed a federal fraud lawsuit against WLFI on April 21, alleging frozen tokens, a hidden blacklist, and extortion. Seven days later, Forbes published a direct attack on Eric Trump's Bitcoin
A gunman charged the security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on April 25, 2026, forcing Trump's evacuation. Earlier the same day, Trump hosted top TRUMP memecoin holders at Mar-a
Eight days after North Korea's Lazarus Group drained $292M from KelpDAO's rsETH bridge, a multi-protocol recovery coalition has recovered 73,700 ETH — but an 89,500 ETH gap remains. Here's the full pi
KelpDAO paused rsETH after an OFT bridge configuration exploit minted unbacked tokens and spread bad debt risk across major lending markets.
Drift lost $295.7M on April 1. Fifteen days later, Tether is backing a $150M recovery plan and taking the perps venue USDT-native. We're watching whether the revenue-linked structure holds up.
Jameson Lopp’s BIP-361 draft would eventually freeze ~1.7 million quantum-vulnerable BTC — including Satoshi’s ~$74B stash — to prevent future theft. News + Analysis on the security move and how it ac
Public on-chain visibility is proving to be DeFi’s biggest vulnerability. The WLFI vs Justin Sun feud reveals how the same transparency that enables MEV also allows teams to freeze assets at will.
Justin Sun exposes WLFI’s hidden guardian blacklist, freezing hundreds of millions in tokens and reigniting the core debate: is this DeFi or just a permissioned database with extra steps? We’re watchi
Stablecoins just crossed $33T, and agentic payments are moving from demos to infrastructure. We are watching the rails that make machine commerce real.
After successful beta testing on Sepolia, token-gated content is now live on Base mainnet. Early accumulation through the sale contract helps seed healthier future liquidity.
Uniswap's aggregator hook integrates Tempo's native stablecoin DEX with Uniswap v4 pools in a single API call, enabling seamless liquidity routing for payments and agent infrastructure.
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino just teased a ‘true breakthrough’ from the QVAC AI team. Here’s how on-device decentralized AI could reshape USDT liquidity, DeFi agents, and on-chain infrastructure in 2026.
The first Swarm Sale (FEET) is complete and the inaugural reaping has been moved forward to March 4. What this means for participants and why the schedule changed.
Chia has opened community review for Proof of Space 2.0, proposing compressed-plot removal and a mandatory replot ahead of a planned Chia 3.0 transition, drawing supportive community reactions.
DX Terminal Pro launched on Base with $6.1M across 1,750+ autonomous AI agents trading memecoins in a 21-day onchain elimination market.
Ethereum co-founder quote-tweets the Foundation’s new DeFi unit and spells out the cypherpunk vision in detail.
Predyx prices BIP-110 activation at 7.84% while node and miner signaling remain minimal, reinforcing low near-term activation probability for Bitcoin DeFi markets.
EVMbench from OpenAI and Paradigm benchmarks AI smart contract security for DeFi, measuring detection, patching, and exploit performance on EVM vulnerabilities.
Ether.fi moves Ether.fi Cash to Optimism OP Mainnet while Base pivots from the OP Stack, reshaping Ethereum L2 liquidity, composability, and chain sovereignty.
BlackRock's tokenized Treasury fund is now tradable via UniswapX, signaling a new distribution path for regulated RWAs.
ai.com's Super Bowl LX launch highlights agentic AI entering DeFi as ERC-8004 identity standards go live and on-chain execution ramps.
Uniswap has announced Rainbow’s RNBW token as the next project to launch using its Continuous Clearing Auction mechanism, following the rollout of the new CCA front-end UI.
Ethereum Layer 2 project MegaETH says it will not provide token incentives for exchange listings, signaling a shift away from pay-to-list practices toward fundamentals-driven adoption.
Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has described recent online criticism as coordinated attacks, prompting renewed debate over centralized exchange influence, lingering fallout from the October 2025 de
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The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act faces delays in the U.S. Senate as lawmakers, banks, and exchanges clash over stablecoin yields, while the GENIUS Act continues to shape institutional adoption.
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