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.
Executive and legislative crypto policy — central bank stances, country-level rules, and CBDC rollouts.
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 new Open Protocol Security Coalition lands while a market-structure bill is still in conference, giving DeFi a single lobbying voice on operational security, bug disclosures, and threat-intel…
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.
The most contested provision is a Republican ethics amendment that would limit officials' crypto ties, a fight with the President's own holdings directly in the crosshairs, and the August recess is…
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…
The oil curve is already pricing in normalization, but the CPI data that confirms it does not arrive until August and PCE not until September 30, leaving the FOMC to lean hawkish through a…
The KOSPI halted after a single-day wipeout led by Samsung and SK Hynix, while Bitcoin broke below $63K as $714M in 24-hour liquidations compounded a spot ETF outflow streak now running $6.35B in 30…
BTC has touched a level that marked the prior four cycle bottoms, and the call to act on it is coming from promotional channels, not registered advisers.
An 85-5 floor count signals the CBDC prohibition has the votes to clear the House too, setting up the first binding statutory block on a US central bank digital currency.
Twin executive orders split the work: DOE gets a flagship quantum machine by decade's end while every federal agency migrates to post-quantum cryptography by 2030.
Two executive orders compel federal high-value assets and high-impact systems to adopt quantum-resistant cryptography by 2030 and 2031, putting the US on a clock that private-sector crypto will feel…
Lawmakers warn the proposed ceiling and non-yielding reserve buffer could freeze the UK pound-token market at launch, handing the advantage to dollar and euro stablecoins already anchored in the…
The bill still has to clear the House and the President's desk, but the vote is the clearest signal yet that a retail Fed CBDC is off the table in this Congress.
If the exemption lands, stablecoins, AMMs, and programmable settlement move from crypto-native experiments to US market plumbing, with broker-dealers as the gateway.
The 85–5 vote embeds a CBDC prohibition into an unrelated housing package, foreclosing any U.S. central bank digital dollar at least through 2030 even as Europe and China push ahead with pilots.
Spot ETFs bleed billions while BlackRock, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and peers push tokenization deeper into equities, cash and ETFs, a split Edelman says is the bigger trade.
A widely followed cycle analyst frames two downside zones based on prior retracement bands, arguing future drawdowns will be shallower than the 20K-plus drops of past bull cycles.
Polymarket prices Burnham at 97% after Starmer steps down, but the more important read is who inherits a crypto regime already legislated through 2027 and the FCA rulebook now in consultation.
Wang's exit, the ninth senior departure in five months, is feeding a fight over whether the EF is shrinking on purpose or losing control. Dankrad Feist is publicly blaming management, not strategy.