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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
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
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
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 $197.41 million on April 24 per DefiLlama,
Polygon has already hosted some of the most notable institutional blockchain deployments to date. In November 2022, JP Morgan executed a live cross-currency DeFi transaction on Polygon PoS, m
Ask which blockchain is the fastest and the answer changes depending on which number you trust. As of May 29, 2026, the live Chainspect dashboard puts Internet Computer ($ICP) on top for real
Coinbase Wallet and the Coinbase exchange are two separate products that do fundamentally different things. Coinbase Wallet is a self-custody wallet, meaning you hold your own private keys an
Ethereum Corrections Historically Created Huge Altcoin Opportunities Ethereum Price corrections have often opened the door for major altcoin opportunities. When an experience a pullback, inve
Arthur Hayes, a leading figure in the cryptocurrency sector, announced that he has sold all of his Hyperliquid (HYPE) and Near Protocol (NEAR) holdings. Hayes, the founder of BitMEX, attracte
Bankless co-founder David Hoffman (@TrustlessState) has sold his entire Ethereum ($ETH) position and immediately redeployed the capital into a basket of altcoins, including VVV, $NEAR, $ZEC,
@Starknet has consolidated its privacy offering under a single umbrella called Shieldnet, grouping together shielded balances, private transfers, anonymous lending and swapping into one coher
The native token of @Lighter_xyz, the zero-knowledge perpetual exchange on Ethereum, is up 44% over the past seven days as fresh product momentum draws renewed attention to the protocol. Stoc
