After three years of growth, Firedancer went reside on Solana mainnet in December 2024, having already produced 50,000 blocks throughout 100 days of testing on a handful of validators. The milestone, introduced Dec. 12 by Solana’s official account, marks greater than a efficiency improve. It represents the community’s first actual try to remove the architectural…
Cardano has made a important integration this week that basically alters its strategy to market infrastructure. Under the community’s newly operational Pentad and Intersect governance construction, the steering committee licensed the implementation of Pyth Network’s low-latency oracle stack. While the choice might seem to be a routine technical improve on the floor, it represents a…
By 2026, markets have turn out to be extra environment friendly, cycles shorter, and volatility sharper. As a outcome, the modern merchants don’t simply depend on charts or information; they harness on-chain analytics, social & sentiment knowledge, basic metrics, and real-time flows to forecast value strikes, liquidity occasions, or sentiment-driven pumps. Below are ten of…
Crypto and inventory efficiency since January 2024 means that the new “altcoin buying and selling” is just inventory buying and selling. The S&P 500 returned roughly 25% in 2024 and 17.5% in 2025, compounding to roughly 47% over two years. The Nasdaq-100 delivered 25.9% and 18.1% over the identical interval, for a cumulative achieve close…
Bitcoin’s options market is massive, liquid, and (for the time being) unusually concentrated. Total open curiosity stands close to $55.76 billion, with Deribit carrying $46.24 billion of that stack, far forward of CME at $4.50 billion, OKX at $3.17 billion, Bybit at $1.29 billion, and Binance at $558.42 million, whereas spot trades within the $92,479.90…
Bitcoin’s 12 months is often narrated by way of the greenback chart, a well-recognized body that captured a chaotic fourth quarter the place BTC whipsawed by way of a violent two-month vary. Price climbed to roughly $124,700 in late October earlier than breaking down towards the mid-$80,000s in November, a swing that erased greater than…
Prediction markets have develop into a strong pressure in how crypto communities, traders, and establishments type expectations. By 2026, enhancements in blockchain infrastructure, regulatory readability, and large will increase in liquidity have turned a few of these markets into severe forecasting instruments. Instead of counting on polls or skilled predictions, folks can now see real-time…
YouTube has added PayPal’s PYUSD stablecoin as a payout choice for U.S. creators. The alternative routes via PayPal’s payout infrastructure relatively than requiring YouTube to custody or switch crypto straight. According to Fortune, PayPal crypto chief May Zabaneh confirmed the association. Google and YouTube additionally confirmed PYUSD was added as a payout choice for eligible…
The Depository Trust Company, the U.S. monetary market infrastructure supplier that clears and settles securities trades, mentioned the SEC has given it casual approval to transfer forward with a tokenization service for some belongings it already holds in custody, with out dealing with enforcement motion. The letter units situations for a time-limited rollout and ongoing…
The People’s Bank of China simply logged its thirteenth straight month of gold purchases, extending one of the vital deliberate reserve-management campaigns of the post-crisis period. These purchases sign that the world’s second-largest financial system is shifting deeper into sovereign-controlled, seizure-resistant property. Against this backdrop, crypto analysts see the PBoC’s shopping for streak not as…