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ERC-7943, the Universal Real-World Asset (uRWA) standard, has reached Final status within Ethereum’s formal standards process. The specification is now frozen - with its interface, error defi
BitMine has drawn renewed market attention after expanding its Ethereum treasury to roughly US$126 million. The move has sparked speculation that the company could qualify for inclusion in th
Key Highlights On-chain investigator ZachXBT has flagged a suspected attack on Polymarket's UMA CTF Adapter contract on Polygon — with losses currently estimated at $520,000+, with some commu
Key Highlights The Pi Core Team confirmed on May 20, 2026 that most major Mainnet Node operators have successfully upgraded to v23 — with the full protocol transition to v23 expected in the c
Key Highlights Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has publicly outlined concrete short-term technical improvements to bring native privacy to Ethereum's L1 — addressing what many consider th
Nodspace is one of the key players in the decentralized finance (DeFi) and Web3 ecosystem. The platform provides comprehensive solutions for managing cryptocurrency assets and participating i
Key Highlights HYPE is trading at $41.23 — up +2.79% in the last hour and +62.15% year-to-date — with a market cap of $10.5 billion. Coinbase is now Hyperliquid's official USDC treasury deplo
The global Real-World Asset (RWA) market is rapidly becoming one of the most closely watched sectors in Web3. While much of the attention has focused on tokenized real estate, treasury produc
Building a deep tech company is hard enough. Infrastructure should never be the thing that slows you down. NodeOps is now working with Scaler Innovation Lab as one of the infrastructure execu
April was one of the most loaded engineering months of the year for Cartesi, with major upgrades shipping across every layer of the stack and a clear push on accessibility for DeFi builders.
The Next Web3 Race: Ownership as Infrastructure: The next trillion-dollar Web3 race may not be memecoins, gaming, or even AI. It may simply be this: turning ownership itself into programmable
The digital gambling sector thought it knew the limits of growth. Spartans.com just completely remapped them. This platform, operating in a closed beta and hidden from the general public, tra
