Base Sets June 25 Mainnet Launch for Beryl Upgrade
Beryl compresses Base's standard withdrawal window from seven days to five and ships B20 as a precompiled — not contract-based — token standard aimed at regulated issuers.
Beryl compresses Base's standard withdrawal window from seven days to five and ships B20 as a precompiled — not contract-based — token standard aimed at regulated issuers.
Trent VanEpps pegs the ecosystem's annual core-dev budget at roughly $30M; with the Client Incentive Program gone and EF treasury cuts rolling in, he says contributor flight and a 12-18 month symptom…
One perfect scoreline, one directional miss: Claude's World Cup read on Group D held to the decimal, but the model's Morocco-Scotland call exposed how prediction engines handle defensive discipline…
A national pool mandating every licensed miner to connect is the structural tell — Oman isn't just hosting hashrate, it's running it through a single regulator-visible chokepoint.
CryptoBandits shows a quiet escalation: clipboard hijacking plus live address-swapping during a copy-paste transfer turns a single USB plug-in into a full wallet drain, with Tor-based exfiltration to…
The 20 millionth bitcoin was mined in March 2026 — over 95% of the total. The remaining million will take a century to issue, and the post-issuance economics hinge on whether fees can replace the…
At $78,000 to produce a single coin against a $62,500 market price, roughly a fifth of miners are now unprofitable — and publicly traded miners offloaded 32,000 BTC in Q1 alone to cover costs.
The $30M annual core-dev bill is colliding with EF spending cuts and the expiry of the Client Incentive Program — a structural gap, not a quarterly blip.
The threat spreads offline via USB and .lnk shortcuts, then runs bundled Tor to reach a hidden-service C2 — clipboard swap plus seed-phrase theft is the actual loss vector, not just an address swap.
The shift from ~44% in 2023 to ~80% today is being driven by OP_RETURN-based protocols like Runes and Ordinals, not by larger value transfers — and the mempool is already showing it.
ERCOT's new "Batch Zero" process tackles a 438,000 MW connection queue — and a handful of Texas-campused miners are already positioned to absorb the wave, with stock moves and signed hyperscaler…
The Consensys founder frames the next leg as institutional — Wall Street capital meets AI-driven on-chain agents, with a warning not to trust those agents with real money yet.
The split is the signal: a record 13.2M monthly active users and 200.4M transactions shipped through Ethereum in Q1 while L1 fees collapsed — a demand surge with a cost collapse underneath it.
Grok's call is a textbook halving-cycle framing: a base case near 3x from spot, a six-figure bear floor, and a Q3–Q4 2026 window keyed off the April 2024 supply shock.
VanEck's framework values a leased megawatt above 10x gross energized power, versus 2x–6x for pipeline alone — but delivered AI capacity sits at only ~25% of what has been leased, with a near-term…
Botanix's shutdown is a single datapoint, but the TVL gap — Ethereum near $39B versus Bitcoin onchain DeFi under $5B — frames what the rest of the L2 sector is now openly admitting.
More than 50,000 Club World Cup tickets have already shipped with onchain rights, and secondary-market turnover has crossed $15M — a rare real-world deployment that Ava Labs and FIFA are trying to…
The proposal turns the network's constant subnet-token selling pressure into a reinvestment loop, but the code is still on a test branch with two serious review issues awaiting re-audit before any…
A Singapore startup is embedding Anthropic's Model Context Protocol into stablecoin settlement so autonomous software can move Asia-Pacific's $28.9T B2B e-commerce flow without a human in the loop.
Five months underwater at an estimated $78K production cost has pushed ~20% of miners into losses, and Q1 2026 treasury sales from public miners already ran ahead of full-year 2025.