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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a technical essay on Monday laying out how a form of advanced cryptography called indistinguishability obfuscation, known as iO, could one day al
Solana has spent much of 2026 balancing two very different stories. On one hand, the blockchain continues delivering strong technical performance and growing network activity. On the other, i
Polygon just closed the second quarter of 2026 with 743 million transactions, breaking the network’s all-time record with a 160% increase from the same period last year. The news was confirme
Ripple’s US dollar-pegged stablecoin RLUSD has made a significant shift towards the XRP Ledger network in recent months. On-chain data reveal that RLUSD circulation on XRP Ledger soared 40-fo
Just as US banks fight a landmark crypto bill days before a Senate vote, Mantle is moving in the opposite direction—actively building the infrastructure to bring traditional financial assets
Ethereum is holding at the $1.6K zone. The bullish momentum of ETH is strengthening. Ethereum is again approaching a price zone that has repeatedly shaped its long-term market structure. The
Pudgy Penguins (PENGU) is hovering near $0.0064. The chart shows the early stage of an uptrend. Pudgy Penguins (PENGU) is battling to move in any direction within the extreme fear market. Bul
Charles Hoskinson left Ethereum in June 2014 after a direct conflict with co-founder Vitalik Buterin over one core issue: should Ethereum be a for-profit company or a non-profit foundation? B
Morgan Stanley (@MorganStanley) is pushing into altcoin ETFs with the lowest fees on the market. On June 18 the bank filed amended registration statements for spot Ethereum and Solana funds,
What Is Quant Network and How Does Overledger Work? Quant Network solves a specific problem: blockchains do not talk to each other. Bitcoin cannot send data to Ethereum. Hyperledger Fabric ca
Quantum computing threatens Bitcoin and crypto for one narrow reason: a powerful enough quantum computer could work backward from a wallet's public key to its private key, then sign transacti
Polygon gives developers a framework to build and launch their own blockchains that connect back to the Ethereum network. These chains are not forks or copies of Polygon itself. They are inde
