Citrea Foundation Forms to Advance Bitcoin Programmable Infrastructure and Decentralization
The newly established Citrea Foundation will oversee the growth and decentralized governance of Bitcoin’s application layer through research and grants....
Year: 2026
Iran’s Conflict and Internet Disruptions Hit Local Crypto Industry
On March 1, Chainalysis observed that Iran’s largest crypto exchanges were offline, a report consistent with the complete disruption of...
OKX Integrates Katana Infrastructure to Launch Native Onchain DeFi Yield
OKX to embed Katana’s native decentralized finance ( DeFi) yield infrastructure, allowing users to access onchain returns without manual bridging....
BitMEX co-founder pledges $27M to London maths institute after Trump pardon
Ben Delo paid a $10 million fine after pleading guilty to US banking violations in 2022 and was granted a...
Bitcoin is forming a bottom as the 4-year cycle ends: VanEck CEO
Jan van Eck suggested that analysts have been overcomplicating recent Bitcoin price action, arguing that the four-year cycle has been...
Core Scientific shares move lower as Q4 earnings miss estimates
Core Scientific missed revenue expectations in the fourth quarter as Bitcoin miners were squeezed by lower prices and higher costs.Shares...
Senate housing bill amendment proposes to block US CBDC until 2030
The amendment appears in a broader housing bill and revives language from earlier standalone efforts to block a Fed-issued digital...
Bank of Japan testing blockchain settlement for bank deposits in new sandbox
BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda said the experiments will examine links between blockchain systems and Japan’s existing settlement infrastructure.
Vitalik Buterin Unveils Ethereum’s Block Building Roadmap Ahead of Glamsterdam Protocol Upgrade
TLDR: Ethereum’s ePBS lets proposers tap a free, permissionless builder market without fueling staking centralization. Big FOCIL assigns transaction subsets...
Bitcoin slide slowing, but bear market still in play: Analysts
Compressed volatility, strengthening ETF flows, and a diminished Coinbase discount “are not characteristics of a market accelerating into a fresh...
‘ClickFix’ hackers pose as VCs, hijack QuickLens in latest crypto attacks
The ClickFix technique gained popularity among crypto hackers last year, but security researchers have been tracking it since 2024, with...
Nasdaq files for prediction market-style options on Nasdaq-100
The offering could enable traders to bet on the stock performance of Nasdaq-100 companies such as Nvidia, Apple, Google and...
OpenZeppelin finds data contamination in OpenAI’s EVMbench
Security auditor OpenZepplin found that EVMbench’s dataset contains training data leaks and at least four invalid high-severity vulnerability classifications.Blockchain security...
Nasdaq Seeks SEC Approval to Launch Prediction-Style Index Options
Nasdaq is seeking SEC approval to list fixed-payout Outcome-Related Options tied to the Nasdaq-100 indexes, a move that could expand...
UBS Forecasts Broad Commodities Rally as Investors Hedge Iran-Linked Uncertainty
Escalating U.S.-Iran tensions rattle oil, gold, and equities as UBS projects limited energy disruption and stronger broad commodities gains into...
