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A sequencer bug was responsible for two outages of the Coinbase layer-2 network Base last week, according to a post-mortem. The Base engineering team said in a Saturday post-mortem that they
OKX Europe CEO Erald Ghoos said the exchange is seeing record numbers of new clients moving to OKX before Europe’s July 1 MiCA deadline, as users reassess whether their current crypto platfor
On-chain analysis is pointing to a familiar kind of late-cycle stress in Bitcoin: investors appear to be running out of profit and increasingly spending coins at a loss. According to a Crypto
Polymarket's annualized revenue has surpassed $1 billion, roughly six weeks after the prediction market platform launched its U.S. exchange, marking a rapid ascent for one of crypto's fastest
Bitcoin’s on-chain “spent profit” signals are flashing a familiar pattern associated with past bear-market turning points, according to CryptoQuant analysis shared over the weekend. Analyst k
Analysis of Bitcoin unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs) shows that investors are capitulating, a pattern that has historically coincided with bear market bottoms. The ratio of the number of U
Base, the Coinbase-backed Ethereum layer-2 network, says it has patched the bug responsible for back-to-back blockchain outages on June 25 and June 26, 2026. The fix followed two chain stalls
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BitcoinWorld XMAQUINA (DEUS) Price Prediction 2025–2026: Will It Rise? # XMAQUINA (DEUS) Price Prediction 2025–2026: Will It Rise? XMAQUINA (DEUS) faces a pivotal moment: while its low market
The number of unique investors participating in crypto venture funding has fallen to a six-year low, signaling that capital deployment in the sector is narrowing sharply even as some headline
@base is hitting pause on a milestone upgrade. After suffering two block-production halts within 24 hours, @coinbase's layer-2 network has postponed the mainnet launch of its B20 Activation R