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A crypto-backed mortgage is a home loan that lets you pledge cryptocurrency, usually Bitcoin or USDC, as collateral for the down payment instead of selling it. You get the house, your coins s
Coinbase Ventures (@cbventures) bought $ENA, the governance token of the synthetic-dollar protocol Ethena (@ethena), directly on the open market on June 2, marking its first disclosed investm
Zcash's proposed Ironwood upgrade could help restore trust following the discovery of a critical vulnerability in the Orchard shielded pool. The proposal would allow users to independently ve
Ethereum and Tron hold roughly $247.6 billion of the $316.137 billion of all stablecoins in circulation, more than three-quarters of the entire market. Add Solana and BNB Chain and the top fo
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 (@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
BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust, ticker IBIT, is a spot Bitcoin ETF that lets investors gain direct exposure to Bitcoin's price through a standard brokerage account, without holding cryptoc
Terra Classic (LUNC) and Terra (LUNA) are two separate blockchains that share a common origin. LUNC is the original Terra blockchain that collapsed in May 2022 when its algorithmic stablecoin
Shibarium is a Layer 2 (L2) blockchain built on top of Ethereum that processes transactions off-chain in batches before settling them on the Ethereum mainnet. Launched on August 16, 2023, it
Real Finance has disclosed further details of its securities tokenization agreement with Factori AD, an EU-regulated investment broker, in a deal that activates a committed pipeline of more t
