Grayscale Pulled Three Altcoin ETFs Days Before the Rules Eased
Grayscale withdrew its Cardano, Polkadot and Hedera ETF filings on August 7, two days before Cardano's futures shortcut cleared. The real gap is demand.
Grayscale withdrew its Cardano, Polkadot and Hedera ETF filings on August 7, two days before Cardano's futures shortcut cleared. The real gap is demand.
Lido's NEST buyback goes to an on-chain vote this week, but the trigger sits above what the protocol currently earns in a day.
The Zcash NU7 vote opens August 25 and needs 1,000,000 ZEC to count. Only shielded funds inside Ironwood are eligible, and the pool just got there.
Zama benchmarked 1,040 confidential transfers per second on eight GPUs. Its live Ethereum protocol runs about 20, and the fees tell you why.
Zcash sealed the Orchard shielded pool after a four year counterfeiting bug. Only about 5% of 3.5M ZEC has crossed into Ironwood so far.
A strong May jobs report pushed Fed rate cuts off the table, deepening crypto's worst week since 2024. ETH cracked under $1,600, Zcash crashed, and BABY popped on an Upbit listing.
Trump announced a peace deal with Iran. Bitcoin spiked to $77,000, then crashed to $74,300. Spot ETFs lost $2.26 billion in two weeks. Warsh took over the Fed. Clarity Act got delayed. And Arthur Hayes bet $6.3 million that none of it matters for HYPE.
The Ethereum Foundation lost five senior contributors in May alone. Vitalik Buterin responded with a 2,000-word post saying the Foundation will get smaller, sell less ETH, and stop pretending to be the center of Ethereum. He also said nearly 90% of his net worth is still in ETH.
DASH, XMR, ZEC and DCR broke out of prolonged consolidation phases since April 4, driven by a broad risk-on rotation following the April 8 ceasefire announcement. On-chain usage metrics suggest the move has a fundamental component — but sustainability depends on macro conditions holding.
ZEC flipped Monero, hit $600, and liquidated $62 million in shorts. The thesis behind it has nothing to do with speculation and everything to do with a tax bill in California.
Saturday's 13-block reorg looked like a 51% attack. The Litecoin team says it was a zero-day in MWEB. Either way, three hours of chain history just got rewritten.
A Google quantum paper, a new perp DEX launch, and a yield product on Solana drove the week's biggest moves — all of it playing out against a broader market sitting deep in Extreme Fear.
Zcash is the leading zero-knowledge privacy coin, using zk-SNARK cryptography to shield sender, receiver, and amount while still proving a transaction is valid. This tag tracks the shift of ZEC into shielded pools as privacy demand rises, the Orchard and Ironwood upgrades that modernize the protocol, the halving and supply dynamics, and the mounting exchange delisting and regulatory pressure that privacy assets face worldwide. Coinliva covers the shielded-supply data, the Electric Coin Company roadmap, the compliance debate, and where Zcash fits as regulators tighten the screws on financial privacy.