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Bankless co-founder Ryan Sean Adams has issued a stark warning to the Ethereum community: if $ETH does not achieve status as a global store of value, the entire project should be considered a
Bankless co-founder Ryan Sean Adams has issued a stark warning to the Ethereum community: if $ETH does not achieve status as a global store of value, the entire project should be considered a
Pump.fun Launches GO, a Task-and-Reward Marketplace @Pumpfun, the dominant memecoin launchpad on Solana, has moved into new territory with the launch of "GO," a paid bounty platform that lets
Polygon has already hosted some of the most notable institutional blockchain deployments to date. In November 2022, JP Morgan executed a live cross-currency DeFi transaction on Polygon PoS, m
Circle, the company behind USD Coin (USDC), has made Stellar one of its core blockchain deployments for the world's largest regulated stablecoin. The decision comes down to three concrete fac
Maybe, but not in the way the issuers and exchanges already do. Stablecoins have two proven business models so far: issue a dollar token or distribute one and earn on the float. Circle does t
RLUSD is Ripple's U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, launched on December 17, 2024, and issued under a New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Trust Company Charter. It is pegged 1:1 to
Stellar's (@StellarOrg) DeFi total value locked (TVL) crossed $200 million for the first time in late April 2026, with the on-chain figure printing $197.41 million on April 24 per DefiLlama,
Aster's buyback-and-burn program works by taking a portion of daily trading fees and using them to purchase ASTER from the open market, then permanently destroying those tokens. As of March 9
Aster runs a two-layer staking system that pays users through two separate reward pools each week: a 150,000 ASTER Base APY pool for anyone delegating tokens to a validator, and a 300,000 AST
Ask which blockchain is the fastest and the answer changes depending on which number you trust. As of May 29, 2026, the live Chainspect dashboard puts Internet Computer ($ICP) on top for real
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
