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The Architect of Digital Capital: The Michael Saylor Story To understand Michael Saylor is to understand a man who operates purely on conviction. He is a survivor of the dot-com bubble, a pio
Bithumb and Upbit, two of South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, have announced they will list CTR, the native token of the Bitcoin-based Layer-2 project Citrea. According to the ann
FXRP is a one-to-one wrapped version of XRP that lives as an ERC-20 token on Flare Network. It lets XRP holders use their XRP inside smart contracts, lending markets, DEXs, and yield vaults w
Stellar's (@StellarOrg) DeFi total value locked (TVL) crossed $200 million for the first time in late April 2026, with the on-chain figure printing $197.41 million on April 24 per DefiLlama,
Polkadot and Cosmos both connect separate blockchains, but through fundamentally different engineering. Polkadot ties every connected chain to a central Relay Chain for shared security and co
HBAR, the native token of the Hedera network, has a fixed total supply of 50 billion tokens, all minted at genesis in August 2018 and placed under the control of the Hedera Council's treasury
Aave’s next chapter is being shaped with institutions in mind. A new governance temp check proposes deploying Aave V4 on Circle’s Arc network with a deliberately tight asset scope. That frami
Humanity Protocol, a Layer-2 blockchain focused on digital identity for Web3, is facing a major setback after a security breach. The attack, linked to compromised wallet keys, resulted in mor
Pi Network (@PiCoreTeam) has issued a mandatory deadline for all mainnet node operators to complete their upgrade to Protocol 25 by June 18, 2026. Nodes that fail to update in time risk being
@RippleXDev is taking an unusually rigorous approach to securing the XRP Ledger's expanding DeFi stack. In a new post published in collaboration with blockchain research firm Common Prefix, t
Foundation Member's Keys at the Centre of the Attack Humanity Protocol (@Humanityprot) founder Terence Kwok (@terencekwok) has confirmed the source of a major security incident that rocked th
Humanity Protocol Security Breach Real or Market Stunt: Token Crashed Over $31 million is gone. That's the scale of the Humanity Protocol exploit that broke on June 9, 2026, and the platform'
