Why Is the Crypto Market Up Today?
Bitcoin and Ethereum are both up around 2% today, but the biggest moves are happening elsewhere. NEAR has climbed about 25%, Zcash is up around 7%, and Uniswap’s UNI has gained about 25%. Tho
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Cardano’s IOG YouTube channel hacked, Hoskinson warns users to avoid scam giveaway
The official YouTube channel of Input Output Group, a key blockchain engineering company behind Cardano, was compromised this week and began broadcasting fraudulent content using deepfake rep
SwapToZEC.com Details How to Swap Crypto to Zcash (ZEC) or Exchange One Cryptocurrency for Another
SwapToZEC.com provides crypto-to-crypto exchanges across 20 digital assets, enabling users to convert Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, and other supported cryptocurrencies into Zcash or another prefe
Cardano News Today: IOG YouTube Hack Rattles ADA Amid Price Rally
Cardano News Today: IOG YouTube Hack and IndianChain Goes Live Cardano news today had a strange day. One arm of its ecosystem got hit by hackers. Another arm just went live with a government-
Avalanche trades near $7.33 as ETF inflows and UAE digital ID drive outlook
Avalanche (AVAX) experienced a sharp move earlier this week, rising to $7.61 before pulling back and trading around $7.33. This retracement follows a recent breakout above a short-term descen
Ethereum Schedules Glamsterdam Testnet for October 6 Amid Builder Attack Concerns
Key Takeaways The Glamsterdam upgrade will launch on Ethereum’s Sepolia testnet October 6, 2026 Security concerns emerged around malicious actors exploiting free testnet tokens to disrupt blo
Inside MIP-12: How Did Monad Cut Its Block Time to 300ms?
Monad's MIP-12 upgrade cut the network's block time from 400 milliseconds to 300 milliseconds. It activated on mainnet on July 23, 2026, at round 89,758,000, and lowered Monad's deterministic
How Does Bonk’s Letsbonk.fun Work?
Letsbonk(.)fun is a memecoin launchpad on the Solana blockchain that lets anyone create and trade a new token in minutes, without writing code. The platform, also known as Bonk(.)fun, launche
Confidential APT Explained: How Aptos is Adding Privacy Without Hiding Wallet Addresses?
Confidential APT is a protocol-level privacy feature on the Aptos blockchain that encrypts how much APT a wallet holds and how much it sends, while keeping the sender's and receiver's wallet
Inside the "Gigagas" Roadmap: Can Polygon Really Hit Visa-Level Throughput?
Polygon's Gigagas roadmap aims to scale its proof-of-stake (PoS) chain to 100,000 transactions per second (TPS) by 2026, and as of mid-2026 the network has reached a peak capacity of around 5
Five more votes and XRP holders can borrow onchain
Five Validator Votes Between XRP Holders and Native RLUSD Borrowing @FlareNetworks co-founder Hugo Philion (@HugoPhilion) has outlined a plan that would let $XRP holders borrow RLUSD directly
Anyone can run a piece of a 5G network now
One Box, One Blockchain, One Network Slice @bloxtel took the stage at the @avax Summit on September 17 to demonstrate its AP 201 access point, a single unit that packages 5G radio, a full net