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Phase 2 Teaser Lands With Bold Price Claims This INK network news update centers on a post declaring Phase 2 draws closer. Officials acknowledged an earlier distribution round brought heavy s
Charles Hoskinson placed blockchain privacy and digital identity at the center of a wider discussion about governance and personal data. Selective disclosure could allow users to verify infor
Hyperliquid price prediction is the question every trader is asking right now, and the chart is setting up a decision that may not take long. A fresh whale-wallet report, a crowded derivative
A Bloomberg analyst has reported that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved proposed rule changes allowing 3x leveraged Bitcoin, Ether, and other crypto exchange-traded product
SBI Holdings, one of Japan's largest financial conglomerates, has completed its acquisition of Bitbank, a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange. The deal expands SBI's digital-asset business and b
BitcoinWorld Third-party Aave adapter exploit drains 114 ETH from Safes An attacker drained about 114.09 ETH — worth roughly $305,000 — from two Safe multisig wallets on Oct. 2 by exploiting
SMBC Nikko Securities, Nethermind, Uniswap Labs, Base, and Nyx Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding on October 2, 2026 to develop a Japan-focused “DeFi Gateway” The gateway will us
Centrifuge has launched three tokenized funds on Arc, extending its real-world asset infrastructure to cover both U.S. Treasuries and credit assets, as the protocol moves to connect on-chain
Coverage of Blast's Ethereum layer-2 shutdown agrees on the Oct. 26 withdrawal deadline but diverges on how much value remains in the network, with a $20M headline figure conflicting with a $
Blast will shut down its Ethereum layer-2 network, the project announced on October 2, after concluding that the ongoing cost of maintaining the chain now exceeds the revenue it generates and
Blast, an Ethereum layer-2 network (a faster, cheaper blockchain built on top of Ethereum), has announced it will shut down permanently. The team is urging users to move their assets back to
Blast will close its Layer 2 after operating costs exceeded network revenue. Users can withdraw through the normal Blast interface until October 26. BLAST fell 17% as the network prepared an
