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Blueprint Finance has completed a strategic funding round led by Polychain Capital to expand Concrete, its on-chain vault infrastructure for institutions, protocols, and asset managers. Summa
Anyone staking ether today waits first. On 17 August 2026, 2,229,411 ETH sat in Ethereum's deposit queue, spread across 37,498 individual deposits. Those deposits do not get their turn immedi
Pi Network has completed its first real-device distributed computing test, using five volunteer node operators to validate the full job cycle through its SoloHost application. The milestone a
Key Insights: Ethena and FalconX launch a $1B facility on crypto news to diversify USDe return sources. Institutional lending already accounts for $310M, or 6.9%, of USDe backing. Ethena reta
BitcoinWorld Blueprint Finance Announces Strategic Funding Round to Scale Concrete’s Institutional DeFi Infrastructure Polychain Capital leads the round, with participation from Bullish, Keyr
BitcoinWorld Bithumb to Temporarily Suspend BounceBit (BB) Deposits and Withdrawals on Aug. 20 South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has announced a temporary suspension of deposits an
Polychain Capital leads the round, with participation from Bullish, Keyrock, BitGo, FalconX, G-20, Flowdesk, JPEG Trading, and Sentient Capital. NEW YORK, Aug. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Bluepr
The exchange reports it intervened within 48 hours to block an attempt to hijack a decentralized organization's voting process. Binance says it played a role in stopping a governance attack o
Pi Network has completed its first real-device distributed computing test, using five volunteer node operators to validate the full job cycle through its SoloHost application. The milestone a
@FalconXGlobal and Ethena have established a $1 billion secured lending facility, putting the reserve assets backing the $USDe synthetic dollar to work in overcollateralized institutional cre
Blockchain project InterLink (@inter_link) is testing ML-DSA-65, a post-quantum digital signature algorithm published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), across both
A smart contract audit is a review of a specific set of contract files, at a specific commit, against a specific threat model, conducted once. It tells a reader that named code was checked fo