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XRP dropped 2.2% in the past 24 hours, reversing some of its recent gains after climbing 49.4% over the last seven days. This downturn follows a period of strong performance and comes as the
On most blockchains, pending transactions sit in a public queue where paying a higher fee can move a submission to the front. Bots routinely exploit that gap through a practice known as maxim
A bridge built on distrust Some of crypto's costliest exploits have shared a common flaw: attackers found ways to mint withdrawal claims that no real deposit ever backed. In February 2022, Wo
How Sui's Object Model Changes the Transaction Pipeline Most blockchains put every transaction through the same pipeline: validators agree on a global ordering first, then execute. @SuiNetwor
US banking groups are planning a nationwide blockchain network targeted for 2027, an industry-owned effort that positions traditional banks as builders of shared blockchain infrastructure rat
Metric Launches With Chainlink at Its Core @metricxyz, a newly launched decentralized exchange, has selected @chainlink Data Streams as its price oracle, adding another protocol to the growin
A Silicon Valley Residency for Cardano Builders @draper_u, @Cardano, and @OrionFund have opened applications for the Apex Growth Accelerator, a 10-week, fully in-person residency program aime
A Practical Compromise on an Ambitious Design @Cardano's current consensus mechanism, Ouroboros Praos, deliberately leaves quiet gaps between blocks. Leios is designed as an optimistic consen
Bitcoin miners can now participate in @Coredao_Org's validator election process without changing how they mine or splitting their computational resources across two networks. The mechanism, c
A Christmas gift for a broken ecosystem In December 2022, Solana was in freefall. The collapse of FTX, an exchange with deep ties to Solana, had pushed $SOL down by roughly 96% from its all-t
@Mantle_Official has brought its Bybit yield vault on-chain, partnering with Grove, @CIAN_protocol, and Fluxion to open institutional-grade stablecoin yield to any DeFi user, not just those o
Canton Network commands the represented RWA market @CantonNetwork has emerged as the dominant force in tokenized real-world assets, accounting for $314.1B of the $353.1B in total represented
