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Zcash just had one of its best milestones of 2026, and traders are paying attention. $ZEC climbed 83% in August, landing among the market's top gainers, while wrapped ZEC quietly went live on
On September 1, 2026, a wave of password reset emails overwhelmed thousands of users on X (including influential crypto accounts). Some even received up to 10 messages in just a few hours. X
The digital assets market is seeing an emerging strategy linked to stocks: token buybacks. Since January, crypto groups have dedicated nearly $640 million to their own assets, according to Al
YAM Finance has faced a governance takeover attempt after an attacker accumulated enough delegated YAM voting power to submit a proposal that could hand over control of the protocol’s Timeloc
Ripple locks XRP in time-based smart contracts on the XRP Ledger and releases a maximum of 1 billion XRP on the first day of each month, a supply schedule set up in December 2017 and enforced
Kaspa stayed on proof-of-work because its founder, Yonatan Sompolinsky, argues that proof-of-work is the only consensus method that samples an honest majority of the network in real time, som
Artificial Inu is a memecoin with the ticker $AI that trades directly against tokenized Nvidia stock instead of a stablecoin or a mainstream cryptocurrency. It launched on Robinhood Chain in
XDC Network is adopting the x402 payment standard through a new product called XDC AI, a marketplace that lets AI agents pay for digital services on their own using USDC, without a human appr
Pools is a new token launchpad built by Uniswap Labs on Robinhood Chain, letting users create, discover, and trade tokens from a single site at pools.trade. It is Uniswap's first move into th
Letsbonk(.)fun is a memecoin launchpad on the Solana blockchain that lets anyone create and trade a new token in minutes, without writing code. The platform, also known as Bonk(.)fun, launche
Solana Breakpoint 2026 will run from November 15 to 17 at Olympia London, marking the first time the Solana Foundation has held its flagship conference in the United Kingdom. The Foundation e
Web3 marketing spent the last cycle paying for attention: posts, yaps, impressions, and follower counts. In 2026 that model is being repriced. After platform rule changes in early 2026 restri
