Ethereum
Bitmine's Path to 5% Ethereum Ownership Increasingly Relies on Staking Rewards
The Nasdaq-listed treasury company has acquired 5.9 million ETH and holds more than 5.06 million staked. Rather than relying solely on purchases, staking rewards could help close the gap to its 5% ownership goal, though ...
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Excels at Spatial and Coding Tasks, Struggles With Creative Writing
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra on September 3 at 2.5 times the price of its predecessor. Early testers report exceptional performance in 3D modeling, game development, and music composition, but note a significant decline i...
XRP Spot ETFs Record Eighth Consecutive Weekly Gain Amid Mixed Signals
Ripple's spot XRP ETFs closed their eighth consecutive week in the green with nearly $19 million in net inflows, though the weekly total marked a significant decline from the previous week and included concerning signs o...
Ripple CEO Says BIS Testing With XRP Ledger Reflects Its Technical Strengths
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse responded to the Bank for International Settlements' research on a data-verification system tested on the XRP Ledger, attributing the choice to the network's low fees, fast settlement, and op...
BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF Dominates US Spot Market With $63.9 Billion in Inflows
BlackRock's IBIT has captured all net inflows to the US spot Bitcoin ETF category since January 2024, with other funds combined posting outflows. The concentration reflects how institutional capital now enters Bitcoin th...
Ethereum's EIP-8141 Proposal Aims to Simplify Transactions and Reduce Fees
Vitalik Buterin has published an updated Ethereum Improvement Proposal that would bundle multiple transaction steps into single confirmations, introduce key rotation for wallet recovery, and enable third-party fee paymen...
Solana ETF inflows plummet 97% as Bitcoin allocation strengthens
Solana's US ETF inflows fell sharply to $4.9 million in the week ending September 4, down from $142.7 million the previous week, while Bitcoin attracted stronger capital flows and CME leveraged funds reduced their net sh...
Ethereum EIP-8141 Frame Transactions Aim to Improve Network Scalability
Ethereum developers are advancing EIP-8141, a new transaction design that separates actions from dependencies to enable more parallel processing. The proposal could support account abstraction, lower costs, and new trans...
Tokenized Equity Trading Reaches $3 Billion Weekly Volume Across Blockchain Networks
Tokenized stock trading peaked near $3 billion in weekly volume during August, with Robinhood Chain, BNB Chain, and Solana leading activity. However, the market remains concentrated in trading, with only 5% of tokenized ...
Robinhood Chain: Ethereum Layer-2 Network for Tokenized Assets and DeFi
Robinhood Chain, launched in July 2026, is an Ethereum layer-2 blockchain enabling tokenized stocks, ETFs, and DeFi applications. Meme coins have driven early adoption, while the network has become a significant fee gene...
Ethereum Lags Behind Bitcoin as ETH Remains Below $3,000
Ethereum has recovered above $2,500 while Bitcoin surged past $82,000, but on-chain data and ETF flows suggest institutional demand remains stronger for Bitcoin, leaving ETH's path to $3,000 uncertain.
Ethena's 13% Surge Masks Weak Fundamentals as Traders Watch Key Metrics
Ethena token jumped 13% in 24 hours, but underlying protocol metrics show limited capital inflows and minimal revenue generation, raising questions about the sustainability of the rally.
Solana v1 Upgrade Requires Infrastructure Updates to Prevent Network Failures
Solana's v1 transaction format, which triples payload capacity to 4,096 bytes, demands compatibility updates from RPC services, indexers, and fee sponsors. Systems unprepared for the upgrade risk either hard failures or ...
Ethereum Holders Move to Profitability as ETH Tests $2,500 Level
Ethereum has recovered to $2,508.45, pushing holders into unrealized profits for the first time in 200 days. However, large whale movements and technical resistance threaten to sustain gains.
Mina Network Completes Mesa Upgrade, zkApps Required to Update Verification Keys
Mina's Mesa hard fork concluded after an eight-hour network pause, halving slot times to 90 seconds. Deployed zero-knowledge applications must now obtain new verification keys compatible with o1js 3.0 before resuming pro...
Robinhood Chain Halts Block Production for 14 Minutes
Robinhood Chain stopped producing blocks on Friday, stalling transactions and leaving roughly 8,400 blocks unproduced. The cause remains undisclosed.
Ethereum Whale Keeps Offloading as ETH Price Rockets Past $2.5K
Ethereum's dominance is above 11% after the latest leg up. The largest altcoin is on the move again alongside the rest of the market, surging by over 4% daily to $2,150 as of press time.
ENS Proposes Layer-2 Registry Migration to Reduce Domain Costs
Ethereum Name Service has opened discussion on an ENSv2 migration that would move domain registration and renewal to Layer 2 infrastructure, aiming to lower costs while maintaining connection to Ethereum's security model...
BNB Chain Announces Lorentz Hard Fork Activation at Block Height 42,100,000
BNB Chain developers have set a mainnet activation schedule for the Lorentz hard fork, which includes BEP-341 transaction priority changes designed to reduce gas costs by 20% for network users.
Monad Mainnet Upgrade Reduces Storage Access Costs by Up to 98%
Monad activated the MIP-8 upgrade on September 2, changing how the EVM-compatible blockchain charges for storage reads. The new system groups 128 consecutive storage slots into pages, reducing costs for clustered data ac...























