The shift lets Lido shrink its active validator set while keeping every staked ETH earning, a structural win for both protocol economics and Ethereum's consensus layer.
The 529 MW anchor, plus 1.9 GW of AMD expansion rights through 2028, repositions Core Scientific as a 2.5 GW AI colocation platform and writes down the rest of its bitcoin mining thesis.
The layer lets providers back multiple DEX positions from a single wallet balance, and 1inch frames it as a fix for the ~$1.6B in concentrated liquidity that sat idle in early 2026.
Only 150 unique VCs wrote checks in July, an all-time low outside the 2020 trough. Capital isn't leaving crypto; it's consolidating into fewer, more selective funds.
The shared-liquidity design plus a $1.37M incentive program lands at a moment when 1inch's own research says $542M sat outside active ranges on concentrated-liquidity DEXs each week.
A wave of venture-funded Web3 companies is running out of runway while tokenization, custody, and settlement infrastructure migrate into the same banks that once watched from the sidelines.
The one-minute plunge exposed the price-discovery risks of trading traditional assets through thin overnight crypto markets.
The HKMA's first Quantum Preparedness Index lands the sector squarely in the awareness phase. Half the lenders surveyed have no formal post-quantum migration plan, even as harvest-now-decrypt-later…
Amodei draws a sharp line between open releases and frontier-model safety, pairing the openness stance with chip-export curbs and mandatory pre-deployment testing for the largest systems.
The AI model pegs a $64,500 base, a $140K–$180K central case, and a $200K–$250K ceiling if institutional demand accelerates, with $60K as the hard line that would require real macro tightening to…
Weak futures positioning and selling pressure leave the breakout unconfirmed, despite crypto’s resilience during the AI-stock selloff.
Rather than replacing workers, AI adoption at scale appears to be generating net new roles, as major employers report growing headcount alongside technology investment.
Bitwise data shows on-chain activity up and gas costs down across ETH, SOL and AVAX, even as each token sits more than 50% below its year-ago price.
The freeze turns a contract exploit into an exit-risk test: users must know whether funds remain withdrawable when an L2 bridge fails.
The move targets the mature-node segment where ASML still ships freely, signaling Beijing's priority is industrial self-sufficiency at 28nm and above, not a leap to EUV parity.
An 8x call from an AI model is only as credible as the technical thesis behind it. Here, the bet is on Firedancer pushing throughput past 1M TPS and reframing Solana as the default high-frequency…
The launch pairs CEX-like speed with non-custodial trading and onchain settlement, and now powers Ondo Perps, layering derivatives onto the firm's RWA stack.
The upgrade pushes Lido's staked ETH onto post-Pectra 0x02 validators, lifting their share of Ethereum's staking set to roughly 52% and trimming total validator count by about a third.
BitMEX engineer Ben Delo's 2015 fix for a Bitcoin futures annoyance became crypto's dominant trading venue, and US regulators are now eyeing the same structure for equities on the CME.
The deal hands Fanatics full control to list and clear its own event contracts, putting it in direct competition with Kalshi and Polymarket as prediction markets go mainstream.
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