Ethereum Foundation Cuts 20% of Staff in Major Restructuring
The Foundation is collapsing its old pods into five protocol-facing clusters plus an ops arm, a structural reset that lands as ETH trades under macro and competitive pressure.
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The Foundation is collapsing its old pods into five protocol-facing clusters plus an ops arm, a structural reset that lands as ETH trades under macro and competitive pressure.
The real pressure point is the 60% of EU users still on non-MiCA platforms, and 20 of 27 member states have already cut off transition periods ahead of the July 1 deadline.
A brand-new address sweeping nine figures of BTC out of an exchange is the kind of flow that turns into a post-mortem chart a week later: either an OTC desk cold-stacking, or a buyer who didn't want…
The BTC reserve is intact and unencumbered, so there is no forced sale. The strain is structural: a $1.7B annual dividend, a 2027–2028 put wall, and an ATM that stopped working.
The orders target quantum technology investment and national-security leadership, a policy push that intersects with concerns over Bitcoin and crypto's long-term cryptographic foundations.
Aave Horizon is now the first institutional lending venue for a single-strategy token tracking Fasanara's alternative debt book, a real test of whether DeFi credit markets can intermediate…
The hire lands as AUSD posts a 355% YoY jump in Q1 transfer volume past $20B, and Agora's pending national trust bank application moves a regulated US dollar on-chain a step closer.
Across the full slate of US spot Bitcoin ETFs tracked by Glassnode, the 7-day moving average of aggregated flows has stayed at or below zero for roughly five weeks, a stretch that points to a stalled…
A 19 million barrel daily transit print would re-rate one of the world's most critical energy chokepoints, and any sustained jump in Hormuz throughput has direct second-order consequences for crude,…
The vote ends three years of friction between the ECB and commercial banks, and positions the digital euro as Europe's answer to dollar-pegged stablecoins and Visa and Mastercard's grip on eurozone…
A $1.7T asset manager is putting its own capital into actively managed crypto strategies and folding in the CoinFund-era team, the clearest signal yet that institutional allocators are moving from…
STRC fell as low as $82.53 against a $100 target and an 11.5% dividend, but the bond-to-UST framing ignores that the instrument is preferred equity, not a stablecoin, and has no peg to break.
Institutions are paying for clean blockchain data: Allium's Series B lands with Visa and the U.S. Federal Reserve already on its client roster, and the round sizes up a market most retail investors…
The deleveraging is the cleaner read, but the next leg needs ETF and corporate bid to come back. Until it does, Wintermute frames the setup as range-bound, not a new uptrend.
The new lab frames itself around the settlement-layer thesis and is taking on protocol R&D that has historically sat with the Ethereum Foundation and a handful of client teams.
The license positions Ripple among the first US-linked crypto firms cleared to operate payments under the bloc's unified rules, ahead of the MiCA stablecoin regime going live in earnest.
The deal closes a class action over disclosure gaps in the 2023 all-stock merger, specifically energy and internet-related risks at the King Mountain Texas mining joint venture USBTC held pre-deal.
The Luxembourg CASP license gives Ripple a single-passport to offer stablecoin payments across all 27 EU states, but it also lands as Brussels opens a formal review of MiCA's stablecoin rules.
The healthcare operations inherited from KindlyMD officially ceased on June 19, clearing the last non-bitcoin business from the company's books ahead of its treasury rebrand.
The settlement is small relative to Hut 8's 640% twelve-month share gain, but the litigation underscores how short-seller reports can drive lasting securities exposure for miners that have since…