Tether funded both sides of its own chain war
The world’s largest stablecoin issuer pays roughly $2.9 billion a year in fees to blockchains it does not control. Its answer was to back two competing chains at once: Plasma, the $373 millio
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Top Crypto News for Jul 25: 24H Market and Network Highlights
The top crypto news item for Sat, Jul 25 centers on stablecoins, with a CryptoSlate lead story framing a roughly $1 trillion settlement network as about 8x faster than US cash and processing
Crypto Bull Market: Bitwise CIO Sees Hyperliquid and Robinhood Leading Next Cycle
Key Insights: The crypto bull market could favor platforms linking real revenue with token value, Matt Hougan said. Hyperliquid crossed $1 billion in lifetime revenue and directs nearly all r
ARK Invest Buys $251K in BitMine Shares and 3iQ Solana Staking ETF
ARK Invest bought about $251K in BitMine shares and added the 3iQ Solana staking ETF, a two-part move that pairs crypto-linked equity with a staking-focused fund wrapper. The purchases were d
Nik Bougalis: Early Life and Net Worth – The Former Ripple Engineer Behind XRPL Innovation
What to Know: Nik Bougalis spent more than a decade leading engineering work on Ripple’s open-source XRP Ledger before leaving the company in 2022. The Algorand Foundation appointed him as Ch
How to Think Like a Web3 Analyst: The On-Chain Data Life Cycle and the KPIs That Actually Matter
Any large language model can write a clean SQL query today. Ask it to pull daily active wallets for a protocol, and it’ll hand back a correct answer in seconds. That was the differentiator a
Ethereum News Today: AFX Hack, Triple-A Exploit and THORChain Moves
Ethereum News: AFX Trade Hack, Triple-A Exploit and THORChain ETH Swap ETH current price is sitting at $1,856.90 today — down 1.35% — but 24-hour trading volume has dropped a much sharper 30.
Two Ethereum Bridges Lose $31.7M in Hours as Third Protocol Halts Staking
Two Ethereum bridges reportedly lost a combined $31.7 million within hours of each other, and a third protocol halted staking during the same window, in a cluster of incidents that has renewe
Apple (AAPL) Stock Surges as Smart AI Strategy Outshines Big Tech Rivals
TLDR Shares surged 3.5% Friday, approaching the 52-week peak of $334.99 Wall Street is favoring Apple’s efficient AI approach through collaborations with OpenAI, Nvidia, Alphabet, Alibaba, an
Tokenized Cattle Loans: How Brazilian Farmers Raise Cash
Picture a dairy farm in Paraná with bills to pay and milk prices wobbling. Instead of haggling at the bank for weeks, the farmer posts ten cows as collateral — not by trucking them anywhere,
Two Ethereum Bridges Lose $31.7M Within Hours as Third Protocol Halts Staking
Two Ethereum bridges lost a combined $31.7 million within hours of each other, while a third protocol halted staking during the same window, in a fast-moving cluster of incidents that has ren
AFX Trade Hacker Swapped 655.4 ETH for 18.86 BTC via THORChain
On-chain monitoring indicates that the wallet linked to the AFX Trade exploit swapped 655.4 ETH for 18.86 BTC through THORChain, moving stolen funds from Ethereum into Bitcoin in a single cro