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How Does Aster's Dual Reward Staking Model Work?
Aster runs a two-layer staking system that pays users through two separate reward pools each week: a 150,000 ASTER Base APY pool for anyone delegating tokens to a validator, and a 300,000 AST
Toncoin Tokenomics: Staking, Validators and the Nomination Pool System
How Does Toncoin's Staking System Actually Work? Toncoin (TON) runs on a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus model where validators lock up TON to secure the network and earn block rewards in retu
Canton vs Public Ethereum: How Privacy and Composability Trade-Offs Differ
Canton and public Ethereum solve the same core problem — settling transactions between parties who do not fully trust each other, but they make opposite architectural choices to do it. Ethere
Stellar Makes History with $242M in TVL
Stellar (@StellarOrg) set a new record for its DeFi ecosystem, with total value locked (TVL) reaching roughly $242 million on May 30, 2026, the highest level the network has ever posted. That
Chainlink Holders Hit Highest Level Since 2022
Holder Base Expands Despite Price Weakness The number of wallets holding at least 1 $LINK has climbed above 535,000, reaching its highest point since December 2022, according to on-chain anal
Helius CEO Turns 'Extremely Bullish' On Zcash
Mert Mumtaz, CEO and co-founder of Solana infrastructure firm Helius Labs (@mert), has declared himself "extremely bullish" on Zcash $ZEC following the proposal of a major network upgrade kno
Tech Stocks Rally in Pre-Market Trading as Dip Buyers Return Tuesday
Key Takeaways Futures point to strong open: Nasdaq 100 up 0.7%, S&P 500 up 0.4%, Dow up 0.2% Semiconductor names including Micron, Nvidia, and Broadcom spearhead recovery OpenAI submits confi
Decentraland’s Governance Threshold Vote: Can a Metaverse Token Fix DAO Apathy?
Decentraland’s community is debating whether lowering the Voting Power (VP) threshold can revive participation in its DAO. This article breaks down how the threshold works, why it’s under rev
Is retail coming back to crypto? What the search data says
For most of the past two years, crypto had a retail problem. The everyday investors who drove the manias of 2017 and 2021 had mostly gone quiet, and the market became dominated by institution
Will Pi Network's $PI Coin Recover Above $1 Again? — Here's Claude AI's Honest Answer
Key Highlights $PI is trading at $0.1288 — down -0.41% in 24 hours and 96% below its all-time high of $2.9816 — with a market cap of approximately $1.38 billion. Reaching $1 would require rou
SBI Bank to Reward Depositors With Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP
The vouchers can be redeemed for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP through SBI VC Trade accounts. The bank will first conduct a three-month pilot beginning June 10, covering both savings and fixed-t