Fairshake and its affiliate super PACs introduced they’ve greater than $193 million in money available heading into the 2026 midterms. The quantity contains $74 million raised since July from three contributors: $25 million from Coinbase, $25 million from Ripple, and $24 million from a16z. The community, consisting of Fairshake plus Protect Progress (Democratic-oriented) and Defend…
Crypto whales are reaching for gold as Bitcoin stalls, however the commerce could also be much less of a verdict on crypto than a hedge for a particular macro window. On Jan. 27, blockchain sleuth Lookonchain flagged three addresses that collectively withdrew about $14.33 million in tokenized gold from centralized exchanges, together with Bybit, Gate,…
Vitalik Buterin stated he not agrees with his 2017 tweet that downplayed the necessity for customers to personally confirm Ethereum end-to-end. This week, he argued the community ought to deal with self-hosted verification as a non-negotiable escape hatch as its structure will get lighter and extra modular. Buterin’s unique place grew out of a design…
Ethereum elevated post-quantum cryptography to a prime strategic precedence this month, forming a devoted PQ staff led by Thomas Coratger and asserting $1 million in prizes to harden hash-based primitives. The announcement got here someday earlier than a16z crypto revealed a roadmap arguing that quantum threats are incessantly overstated and untimely migrations threat buying and…
Ethereum is presently reporting the best day by day community progress in its historical past, a statistical surge that ostensibly indicators a large return of consumer exercise. Over the previous week, the Ethereum mainnet processed 2.9 million transactions, a brand new all-time high in accordance to Token Terminal knowledge. This exercise was accompanied by a…
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the proprietor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), announced plans on Jan. 19 to develop a brand new buying and selling platform for tokenized US-listed equities and exchange-traded funds. While the headline options embrace stablecoin-based funding and blockchain integration, the initiative represents a deeper structural guess on the way forward for…
Bitcoin value succumbed to a violent selloff on Monday whereas gold and silver surged to all-time highs following President Donald Trump‘s menace of sweeping new tariffs on European allies. According to CryptoSlate’s knowledge, BTC slipped beneath $93,000 inside minutes throughout early Asian buying and selling hours, after buying and selling comfortably in the mid-$95,000s just…
More than 36 million ETH is now staked in Ethereum’s proof-of-stake system, near 30% of the circulating provide and price over $118 billion at current costs. Graph displaying the quantity of ETH staked in the Ethereum community from Oct. 16, 2025, to Jan. 16, 2026 (Source: ValidatorQueue) That headline quantity seems like a clear vote…
Crypto startup Saturn is elevating funding for an on-chain greenback product, USDat, that routes yield from Strategy’s Bitcoin-linked credit score devices into DeFi. The spherical included $500,000 from YZi Labs and a $300,000 angel increase led by Sora Ventures, as Saturn positions USDat as a dollar-denominated token whose returns are tied to Strategy’s STRC most…
Financial advisors held crypto allocations under 1% for years, treating Bitcoin as a speculative footnote reasonably than a portfolio element. That period is ending. According to Bitwise and VettaFi’s 2026 benchmark survey, 47% of advisor portfolios with crypto publicity now allocate greater than 2%, whereas 83% cap publicity under 5%. The distribution tells a extra…