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A notable Ethereum transaction occurred at a cryptocurrency address believed to belong to Tron founder Justin Sun, approximately a year after its last appearance. According to On-Chain data,
Uniswap pointed out that founder Hayden Adams believes that tokenization is going to change how liquidity is offered in cryptocurrency and traditional markets, while the automated market make
A privacy-focused asset with a patchy exchange history just received the most conventional wrapper in US markets. Grayscale has converted its Zcash Trust into an exchange-traded fund, listing
The four best self-custody wallets for the XRP Ledger in 2026 are Xaman, Tangem, Bifrost Wallet, and Joey Wallet, in that order. Three of the four treat the XRPL as their home chain, which is
SIP-5 is a draft proposal from Sei Labs (@Sei_Labs) that gives every EVM account on Sei Network (@SeiNetwork) a ready-made path to quantum-safe security, without changing addresses, balances,
Staking for NEAR AI is a new payment system on NEAR Protocol that lets users pay for confidential AI inference and always-on agents by staking NEAR tokens instead of using a credit card. Anno
Split delegation is a Core network feature that lets CORE token holders divide their staked tokens across more than one validator at the same time, instead of committing their entire stake to
NEAR Protocol co-founder Illia Polosukhin has proposed a new treasury system called the NEAR Sovereign Fund. The plan would pool the protocol's treasury and revenue, invest it to earn yield,
Avalanche Helicon is an upgrade to the Avalanche blockchain that speeds up how the network processes transactions and changes the rules around staking (locking up AVAX coins to help secure th
A community of validators and holders kept the Terra Classic blockchain running after its 2022 collapse by voting in an on-chain burn tax that automatically destroys a slice of LUNC on every
Pools is a new token launchpad built by Uniswap Labs on Robinhood Chain, letting users create, discover, and trade tokens from a single site at pools.trade. It is Uniswap's first move into th
On August 4, 2026, six Ethereum researchers and developers formally submitted a draft Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) that would gradually burn validator rewards as the amount of staked E
