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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin shared an updated roadmap on August 10. The biggest change is that: quantum safety is now the top goal. Buterin compared his old 2023 roadmap to Ethereum's
US President Donald Trump met with crypto and prediction market executives at the White House on Wednesday, August 19, pushing Congress to pass the CLARITY Act while also signaling that regul
Zcash activated its Ironwood upgrade, known formally as NU6.3, on July 28, 2026, at block height 3,428,143. The upgrade replaced Orchard, the network's main privacy pool, with a new pool call
A Chainlink price oracle collects asset price data from many independent sources, aggregates that data off-chain, and publishes a single trusted value on the blockchain so smart contracts can
Plume Network bakes KYC and compliance into the chain by building identity checks, transfer restrictions, and sanctions screening into its core protocol modules instead of leaving each app to
The Canary HBAR ETF, trading under the ticker HBR, became the first U.S. spot exchange-traded fund holding HBAR when it launched on Nasdaq on October 28, 2025. Nearly a year later, its buyer
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
Trezor, the hardware wallet maker, confirmed that a breach at its shipping partner ShipMonk exposed the personal data of 13,689 customers, including names, phone numbers, email addresses, and
Arthur Hayes, the co-founder of crypto exchange BitMEX, announced on August 18, 2026, that he is leading a new project called Flop Labs, which is building a network and native token called FL
Cardano's Shelley upgrade, launched in July 2020, got one thing right from the start: it let ADA holders earn staking rewards without ever giving up custody of their coins. Six years later, t
Coinbase Files SEC Notices for Single-Stock Perpetuals Coinbase has taken a formal step toward bringing single-stock perpetual contracts to the United States, filing two SEC notice registrati
No More Withdrawals: Pay Straight From Bybit Bybit Pay has partnered with Mesh, a crypto payments infrastructure provider, giving the exchange's 80 million users a direct way to spend or tran