Base Halts Block Production After 'Unsafe Head Stall' on L2
The Coinbase-incubated layer-2 hit its second notable outage this year, freezing deposits and withdrawals and exposing the operational risk of a low-redundancy sequencer setup.
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The Coinbase-incubated layer-2 hit its second notable outage this year, freezing deposits and withdrawals and exposing the operational risk of a low-redundancy sequencer setup.
The bitcoin rout is no longer just hitting MSTR equity; the company's preferred-stock funding line is now trading at a discount, and analysts want liquidity rebuilt before any more BTC buys.
Greece is only the latest refusal point. The real fight is over which national regulator will stake its supervisory reputation on certifying a firm with $4.3B in US AML and sanctions settlements…
MSTR's mNAV has compressed to 1.05 and STRC trades at $75 against a $100 target, yet Strategy still holds the cash to cover 10 months of dividends.
A 5% slide on the day strips more than $200B off Apple's market value, signalling that investors read the pricing power as a red flag for iPhone demand at a moment consumer wallets are already…
A half-billion in positions wiped in an hour signals a sharp reset of over-leveraged bets across the board, with long and short books both caught in the crossfire.
The milestone matters less for the number than for what it signals: $4.1B in circulation is now moving natively across two dozen chains, not bridged.
The price drop is the headline, but the deeper signal is one-sided: open interest climbed as price fell, funding turned negative, and 6,900 BTC of bids sit below the market against just 1,570 BTC of…
A $60K retake dissolved in a single session as sticky core PCE forced a leverage flush, with $10B+ in Friday options expiry now sitting on top of the wreckage.
Jiang Zhuoer's call rests on Strategy's mNAV sitting at 0.72, near the level that marked the last cycle's turn, and on a four-year cycle model whose prior low preceded bitcoin's own bottom by about…
The 2022 peak of 2,564 active quarterly investors is now four times the current count, a sign that venture capital is consolidating into a smaller, more specialized core rather than broadening out.
651 active crypto investors in Q2 2026 is a rounding error next to the 2022 peak of 2,564, and the shape of the pullback matters more than the headline number.
The pilot reframes the next phase of stablecoin competition: not dollar dominance on-chain, but which sovereign currency becomes the default settlement money inside institutional apps.
The spot sell that pierced $60K, not the cascade after, is what broke positioning: roughly $470M in BTC sell orders hit Binance in a single minute and ETF outflows are now in a seventh straight week.
FBI and HSI backed the operation, and onchain sleuth ZachXBT has named detained suspect Wojtek Kulisz as 'Merry', the threat actor behind years of social engineering thefts from crypto holders.
The $150M liquidity migration is the headline number, but the FX Layer framing is the actual product bet: stablecoin-native FX routing built directly into Uniswap's swap path, not bolted on.
The $150M v4 liquidity migration across USDS, USDT and PYUSD positions Uniswap not as a DEX but as plumbing for the multi-issuer stablecoin economy banks and fintechs are about to enter.
Spot ETFs shed $469M in a single session while 80% of quarterly open interest sits out of the money, leaving the market pinned below the gamma flip at $68K–$70K.
The TRM Labs report flags one of the largest spot-derivative venues by volume as a primary on-ramp for sanctioned-jurisdiction flows, a designation that puts the exchange's compliance program under…
The deal lands as the first global dollar stablecoin cleared for Japanese corporate use, and it ties USDC directly into Nomura's client onboarding, compliance stack, and existing banking rails ahead…