Solana's Alpenglow Claims 85x Finality. Users Already Had Sub-Second.
Solana's Alpenglow upgrade markets 85x faster finality at 150ms, but the baseline is a number users rarely wait for. The real gain, and the tradeoffs.
Solana's Alpenglow upgrade markets 85x faster finality at 150ms, but the baseline is a number users rarely wait for. The real gain, and the tradeoffs.
Ether.fi split restaking out of weETH. DefiLlama shows EigenCloud paid 486,066 dollars in fees over 30 days against 5.1 billion in collateral.
DeFi Saver says over $50M sits forgotten in smart wallets across 10 plus lending protocols. More than 200,000 DSProxies are now unused.
Zama benchmarked 1,040 confidential transfers per second on eight GPUs. Its live Ethereum protocol runs about 20, and the fees tell you why.
Over 34% of bitcoin has revealed its public key on chain. What quantum computers could reach, and the two BIPs written to close the gap.
Independent researcher Giancarlo Lelli broke a 15-bit elliptic curve key on publicly accessible quantum hardware, jumping the field forward by a factor of 512.
The delivery giant operates in 40+ countries and processed $75 billion in merchant sales last year. It is now working with Stripe-backed blockchain Tempo to replace fragmented regional payment rails with stablecoin payouts. Visa, Mastercard, and UBS are also on board.
Pi Network's Protocol 22.1 deadline hit on April 27, automatically disconnecting nodes that failed to upgrade. Protocol 23 — the upgrade that brings smart contracts to Pi — has been pulled forward to May 11, a week earlier than originally announced.
Durov replaced the TON Foundation, made Telegram the chain's biggest validator, and slashed fees to near zero. All in one post. The token added $1 billion in market cap in hours.
At Consensus Miami, two of the biggest names in payments said the next wave of commerce will run on stablecoins and open protocols because traditional finance simply wasn’t built for machines.
The Toncoin Token Bridge will permanently close on September 1, 2026. Users holding Wrapped TON on Ethereum or BNB Chain, and anyone with j-tokens on TON, must move their assets before the deadline or lose access. Transfer fees have been waived. Bridge oracles will pull their stakes in June.
It costs $79,995 to mine one Bitcoin. BTC trades at $67,000. The math stopped working. Over $70 billion in AI contracts have been signed. Mining revenue could drop from 85% to under 20% by late 2026. This is not a pivot. It is a replacement.
The FSC's emergency inspection found three of South Korea's five major platforms reconciling balances only once every 24 hours. The trigger: Bithumb crediting 620,000 BTC — roughly $56 billion — to 249 users instead of 620,000 Korean won. Regulators have now mandated five-minute reconciliation cycles, automatic kill switches, monthly external audits, and daily public disclosure of results. The deadline is May 2026.
SDNY US Attorney Jay Clayton has pushed back against Roman Storm's attempt to use a 2026 Supreme Court copyright ruling as a defense against the two charges a jury deadlocked on last year. The case is a live contradiction: the same DOJ that issued a memo ending 'regulation by prosecution' on crypto platforms is now pursuing a retrial that could send a developer to prison for 40 years for writing open-source code.
AWS built payment rails for bots with Coinbase and Stripe. The system settles in 200 milliseconds on Base using USDC. Warner Bros. Discovery is already testing it.
The company behind USDC sold 740 million tokens at $0.30 each. BlackRock, a16z, Apollo, and ICE all bought in. The question is what Circle needs a blockchain for when it already runs a $77 billion stablecoin.