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What Is Monad Private Settlement? Category Labs, the developer behind the Monad blockchain (@monad), is introducing Monad Private Settlement: a framework that lets businesses run confidential
Three days remain before the 10 October 2026 target, and the TIK launch date keeps pulling searches for a TikCoin list in 3 days. Many of those searches say presale, but the TikCoin mining pr
Polymarket began production canary testing of Protocol V2 on October 5, putting its new trading architecture into a limited live trial ahead of a tentative November 2 switch for new markets.
Stacks has gained more than 100% over the past 90 days, backed by institutional Bitcoin Staking that is creating a new use for STX that could grow as more BTC enters future bonding periods. S
BlockDAG Tier-1 Listing questions are resurfacing as BlockDAG Network confirms its Turbo Presale has closed, while a separate Native BDAG Presale still has 7 days left to run. The project fra
XDC Network News Today: Why Is Network Activity Rising as XDC Falls? Here's XDC network news today that shows real, measurable growth happening on-chain. XDC Network is closing in on 2.35 mil
3 altcoins have posted strong weekly gains, with SAND, NIGHT and ZRO drawing attention as traders watch key support and resistance levels. Summary NIGHT trades near $0.04794, down 3.9% daily
Shiba Inu (SHIB) became a multi-billion-dollar cryptocurrency by copying Dogecoin's dog-meme formula, not by solving a technical problem. As of September 15, 2026, SHIB trades near $0.0000049
Polkadot was called an "Ethereum killer" because it was built by Ethereum's former chief technology officer to solve the scaling problems Ethereum hadn't fixed yet, using a design of connecte
Circle has added Solana to its USDC Bridge, giving users a direct route to move native $USDC between Solana and 18 other blockchain ecosystems from a single, first-party interface. What the I
OKXICE LLC filed a proposal with the U.S. SEC on Sunday, October 4, 2026, seeking approval for a 24/7 venue covering OKX tokenized stocks of an initial 63 public companies. The joint venture
Robinhood now holds Bitcoin on its own books and is among a growing list of BTC treasury companies. News that the trading platform had bought $25 million worth of BTC for its corporate balanc
