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Kaspa stayed on proof-of-work because its founder, Yonatan Sompolinsky, argues that proof-of-work is the only consensus method that samples an honest majority of the network in real time, som
Toobit has been included in CoinGecko's 2026 State of Crypto Security Report, a study of how threats against digital asset platforms are shifting and what exchanges are doing to keep customer
Pi Network's lockup system removes a large share of mined PI tokens from active trading by letting users voluntarily lock coins for set periods in exchange for higher mining rates. As of late
The CLARITY Act missed its summer deadline because the Senate adjourned for its August recess without voting on the bill, leaving unresolved disputes over ethics rules, stablecoin rewards, an
Reclassifying crypto as a "financial product" moves digital assets in Japan out of payment law and into securities law, meaning exchanges, token issuers, and traders now face the same disclos
Anonymous Cat, or ZCAT, is a Solana memecoin that has paid its holders nearly $3 million worth of Zcash by taxing every token transfer 3% and converting most of that fee into ZEC rewards. A r
The CLARITY Act and the EU's MiCA framework solve the same problem in opposite ways. The CLARITY Act sorts crypto by asking who regulates it, splitting oversight between the SEC and the CFTC.
Kaspa survived without venture capital because its 2021 mining launch severed the project from the funded startup behind its early research, leaving volunteer developers and community crowdfu
Dominic Williams is a British computer scientist and entrepreneur who founded the DFINITY Foundation and serves as its President and Chief Scientist, building the Internet Computer Protocol (
Kaspa's Toccata hard fork, activated on June 30, 2026, added native Layer-1 covenants and zero-knowledge proof verification, moving the network from a pure payment chain toward a programmable
Zcash holds a special place among crypto's original cypherpunks because it was built by people from that exact community to solve the exact problem they cared about most: private digital mone
The CLARITY Act failed because the Senate rejected cloture on the motion to proceed by a vote of 49 to 50 on September 15, 2026, falling 11 votes short of the 60 needed to open floor debate,
