Inside Vitalik’s 256 ETH grants: When Ethereum falls, privacy rises
Vitalik Buterin recently sent a 256 ETH grant to two messaging projects, Session and SimpleX Chat, without the usual ecosystem fanfare. The gesture was modest...
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Prediction markets are coming to your brokerage
If you open your brokerage this year and a “Markets” tab seems to be sprouting unfamiliar yes/no questions (“Will the Fed cut rates in March?”,...
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Polymarket war bets collide with the maps civilians use to survive
The first thing many Ukrainians check in the morning is not Instagram or email, it is a war map. DeepStateMap.Live, a volunteer-built OSINT project, shows...
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Bitfinex’s options playbook: Ardoino on building rails that won’t snap
When crypto sells off, the market doesn’t so much walk down the stairs as it slips on the first step and discovers there never were...
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If Bitmain gets hit, what breaks first in the US mining machine?
The US government has opened a security review into Bitmain, the Beijing-based manufacturer that sells most of the world’s Bitcoin mining rigs. A months-long federal...
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Bitcoin's bull market: A slowdown, not a breakdown
Bitcoin’s big buyers seem to have stepped off the gas. For the better part of the last year or so, it felt like there was...
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Grayscale’s Zcash ETF: Regulated privacy, or privacy in name only?
A privacy coin is headed for Wall Street, and the wrapper says everything about what happens when a technology built for discretion tries to move...
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Japan’s 20% crypto tax sets a new bar in Asia, pressuring Singapore and Hong Kong as retail costs fall
Japan is quietly preparing the most pro-crypto shift of any G7 nation. According to multiple reports from local media, the Financial Services Agency (FSA) is...
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Security reality check: Top-ranked Chrome ‘wallet’ that steals your seedphrase
For a few days in November, a malicious Chrome extension ranked as the fourth result for “Ethereum wallet” on the Chrome Web Store. The extension,...
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Why did Wall Street just dump $5.4 billion in Strategy MSTR stock?
For a while, owning Bitcoin was professionally awkward. Big asset managers couldn’t touch it, compliance teams didn’t know what to do with it, and internal...
