Solo Bitcoin miner wins $200K block with $150 Bitaxe rig
Two solo blocks in eight hours of hashing at roughly one terahash per second against roughly 1-in-18,000-year odds, on a device that draws less power than a light bulb.
Country and city adoption — BTC as legal tender, sovereign Bitcoin reserves, and big-corp first-time crypto moves.
Two solo blocks in eight hours of hashing at roughly one terahash per second against roughly 1-in-18,000-year odds, on a device that draws less power than a light bulb.
The promotion rewards the highest-volume Combo contract traders, betting that gamified liquidity incentives can pull active bettors onto the newer product.
Tokenized stocks and RWA perps now account for one in five new CEX listings, while memecoins and GameFi listings collapse, pointing to a structural reorientation of exchange strategy around…
The chain now sits behind only Solana and BNB in 24-hour on-chain trading volume, ahead of Base, Ethereum, Hyperliquid and Arbitrum.
The move marks another consumer-facing wedge for Solana DEX liquidity, routing collectible-card demand through Jupiter's swap layer rather than a traditional auction house.
The bill would settle which US agency oversees digital asset markets, ending a years-long turf war between the SEC and CFTC that has pushed trading offshore.
The framework under review would let USDT circulate alongside the boliviano and dollar, a notable reversal from the 2024 ban and a stress test for stablecoins under FATF grey-list oversight.
The shift brings 64.6% of Japan's security token issuance onto Avalanche and turns a major Mitsubishi UFJ spinoff into a real test of on-chain RWA rails at institutional scale.
Tether is already the de facto dollar proxy in a country starved of hard currency. Formal state recognition would lock that position in, and copy the Argentina playbook one border north.
A direct US claim on the chokepoint carrying roughly a fifth of global oil flows is a geopolitical and macro-risk event of the first order, with energy, defense, and risk-asset repricing all on the…
A first-week $3.1B DEX print puts a brand-new L2 ahead of chains that took years to scale, but the real signal is the $300M stablecoin base already funding the activity.
The framing recasts a US military guarantee over the world's busiest oil chokepoint as a paid service, a posture that rattles Gulf allies and adds a new risk premium to crude.
Eleven days post-mainnet and the subsidy-funded L2 is already at 82% of Base's daily volume, a credible signal that gas-free UX is a real adoption lever, not just a marketing claim.
The partnership targets regulated on-chain financial markets in Japan, giving SBI's regulated distribution rails a Solana-based settlement layer from one of Asia's largest financial groups.
The MiCA deadline flushes Binance out of the EU on July 1, and the money is going to wallets, not to licensed competitors, a humbling read for Europe's new compliant venues.
Takaichi's pledge lands the same week the US CLARITY Act moved forward and stablecoin supply dipped under memecoin rotation, framing Web3 as sovereign industrial policy in both Tokyo and Washington.
A sitting prime minister using a flagship crypto conference to commit fresh capital and deregulation is the kind of top-down signal that has historically pulled Japanese institutional capital off the…
Japan's third-largest convenience chain joins KDDI and HashPort on a proof-of-concept that, if it scales, would make stablecoins a daily-payment rail rather than a trading asset.
A top-three Japanese convenience chain putting yen-pegged JPYC on the point-of-sale rails is a legitimacy signal the rest of Asia’s payments stack will read closely.
Brian Harrington's thesis is supply math plus decades of fiat debasement: at 21M total supply, fractional holdings compound into outsized influence if Bitcoin's role keeps expanding.