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Key Insights: HYPE price rose as Hyperliquid completed another large token burn. Hyperliquid burned 112,580 HYPE worth about $10.15 million. Bloomberg Terminal added pricing data for selected
For most of its history, API3 has been known to crypto for one thing: moving real-world data onto blockchains without a middleman standing in between. Its newest product aims that same machin
Standard Chartered, one of the world’s leading banks, has recently been making headlines for its focus on altcoins in addition to Bitcoin and Ethereum. At this point, the bank, which has publ
For years, one of the easiest crypto narratives was: “Cardano has no…” No smart contracts. No stablecoin infrastructure. No serious DeFi. No working governance. No scaling. Some of those crit
Shiba Inu exchange netflows fell to roughly 120 billion SHIB in the latest on-chain snapshot, reflecting a narrowing gap between tokens entering and exiting centralized exchanges as the broad
Crude oil price prediction searches are rising, and traders are watching the screen a little closer than usual. Which way it goes from here changes everything, and the levels that matter are
PI has been quietly losing ground, and buyers have gone silent. Anearlier bounce against Bitcoin showed how fragile these rebounds can be. Data here is current as of October 5, 2026, at 14:05
Both Visa and CoinShares have reported a notable rise in crypto interest across two distinct audience groups: everyday consumers and affluent investors, a development that carries particular
Anyone who has swapped a token, minted an NFT, or used a lending app has already used the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Ethereum is a public blockchain where apps and digital money run without a
Kaspa's Toccata hard fork, activated on June 30, 2026, added native Layer-1 covenants and zero-knowledge proof verification, moving the network from a pure payment chain toward a programmable
Avalanche adopted the same development suite as Ethereum but altered the consensus engine, single lane for executing transactions, and economics by offering sub-second finality, a system of s
TVL Reaches New All-Time High Stellar's decentralized finance ecosystem has reached a new milestone. The network's total value locked hit a record of nearly $273 million on October 2, up from
