The V1 format lifts per-transaction data past 4,096 bytes while slot times shrink toward 200ms, and both land during Solana's busiest stretch on record, including 5.2 billion August transactions.
Twenty accounts supplied 2,000 identical one-drop payments in a likely throughput test, so the record ledger says more about network capacity than real XRP demand.
Visa and Ripple on the same cap table for a B2B payments startup is the structural signal: traditional card-network money and crypto-native rails are co-investing in the same settlement layer.
The gap puts break-even throughput near 45 TPS, an order of magnitude above today's ~0.3 TPS. Capacity solutions like Leios are advancing; demand for paid transaction activity remains the open…
Ten billion ARC tokens were minted as a technical milestone, but the real story is the validator bench: BlackRock, DTCC, ICE, Mastercard, and Visa anchoring a Layer 1 where gas is paid in USDC and…
Several historical markers of the transition from crypto winter to crypto spring are already present, with the 17-month pre-halving window and Bitcoin difficulty among those flashing now.
The release candidate adds a second fee estimator that reacts to live mempool conditions, parallel block validation on eight threads, and PSBT v2 defaults, with two security flaws patched before the…
Solana's infrastructure is advancing even as SOL price action lags, leaving real-world adoption as the key test of the upgrade's market significance.
Founding validators span the TradFi core: BlackRock, DTCC, Mastercard, Standard Chartered and Visa are securing the USDC-gas Layer 1 from day one, alongside a 10 billion ARC genesis mint Circle says…
The move puts Musk's private-space giant at fresh highs on secondary markets, a signal of how institutional appetite for pre-IPO equity keeps tightening.
The project would extend Apple's custom-silicon strategy into data-center infrastructure, opening a new front in competition for enterprise compute.
Evin McMullen of Billions argues the real security crisis is not the $320 million exploit but the identity honeypots every exchange, on-ramp and wallet maker keeps filling, soon to be multiplied by…
A 0x analysis of 84,163 hooks across six chains classified over half as malicious, and the flagged pools are winning route comparisons only to pay traders far less at execution.
The post-cross pullback has historically been 10-15% in confirmed bull cycles and 50-60% when the bear continued; the bounce structure, not the drop, is what decides which analogue is running.
ARB's same-session divergence from Bitcoin, Ethereum and its own L2 peer group adds a new institutional-research channel to the watch list for traders running event-driven books.
Ethereum's EIP-8141 prioritizes privacy, censorship resistance and quantum-safe accounts, while Base's EIP-8130 optimizes for high volume and compliance, forcing cross-network wallets to support both.
A jump from 7.25% to two-thirds turnout, with shielded-pool voting letting ZEC holders decide NU7's roadmap without exposing their balances.
Solana needs 66% of stake voting to maintain finality and halts near 33% offline; the Aug. 12 outage sat 4-5 percentage points under that line, exposing how thin a single failure domain leaves the…
Seating the AI chip king at a US-China state dinner signals Washington may value Nvidia's access to Chinese buyers more than the export-control hardline that has locked it out.
The miner's latest buy adds to a growing pattern of public companies treating mined and purchased BTC as a long-term treasury asset rather than working capital.
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