Ethereum

The VanEck Lido stETH ETF is officially dead. VanEck Digital Assets filed a Form RW with the SEC on October 14, 2026, formally withdrawing the registration statement for its proposed VanEck Lido stETH ETF. The firm cited...

Sectora Foundation announced that four products have completed interface development and entered final testnet testing. The SECT token is now available on Uniswap with a 50 million total supply and approximately $5 milli...

Ripple announced major partnerships including Standard Chartered custody support for its stablecoin RLUSD and expansion into leveraged ETFs through its prime brokerage platform. Despite institutional developments and Eve...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin declared the race to accelerate zero-knowledge proofs complete following ZKsync's Airbender Prime prover milestone, signaling a shift in focus toward security and formal verification.

Solana will replace its consensus mechanism on October 21 in a live-network upgrade designed to reduce transaction finality from approximately 12.8 seconds to around 150 milliseconds, a potential 99% improvement.

Starknet is considering transitioning to a standalone Layer 1 blockchain with quantum-resistant security by 2027, aiming to reduce reliance on Ethereum's security upgrades and accelerate its cryptographic defenses.

Solana will deploy Alpenglow, a major consensus system upgrade, on mainnet in epoch 1064 beginning October 21 at approximately 15:00 UTC. The upgrade replaces TowerBFT and aims to reduce transaction finality from 12.8 se...

Anza, Solana's core developer, has announced October 21 as the target date for the Alpenglow upgrade, which is expected to reduce transaction finality from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds. SOL currently faces resistance...

Binance's Head of Exchange and Trading detailed the exchange's mark-price methodology for Anthropic-linked perpetual futures used in the 21Shares synthetic ETP, which launched October 13.

OP gained nearly 20% in 24 hours after Uniswap announced that Unichain would transition its production operations to OP Enterprise, with the token climbing to $0.1621 before settling around $0.156.

Ethereum's largest digital asset treasury now holds $16.2 billion in total assets, with 6.03 million ETH representing nearly 5% of the network's circulating supply following a recent acquisition of 12,532 ETH.

Solana will implement its Alpenglow upgrade on Oct. 21, replacing its voting system to achieve transaction finality in approximately 150 milliseconds. The change will move validator votes off-chain, potentially reducing ...

Circle has published a framework to assess whether wrapped assets meet institutional standards, grading products across custody, reserves, redemption, compliance, operational resilience, governance, and composability.

The brokerage firm, which oversees $964.7 billion in client equity, has introduced cryptocurrency staking services in partnership with Zerohash, allowing eligible customers to stake ether and earn rewards through its Cli...

The Ethereum Name Service has proposed activating ENSv2, allowing existing .eth domain holders to keep their names indefinitely without migrating, while offering a permanent upgrade path that moves tokens to an irreversi...

Clients of BlackRock's iShares Ethereum Trust pulled $75.07 million on October 12, 2026, marking the ninth consecutive day of outflows from US spot Ethereum ETFs. Weekly redemptions totaled $542.1 million, the largest si...

Evernorth Holdings Inc. started trading on Nasdaq under ticker XRPN on October 12, following completion of a merger with special purpose acquisition company Armada Acquisition Corp. II. The company holds approximately 47...

BitMine purchased 12,532 ETH in the week ending October 11, marking its third consecutive small weekly buy. The company has now staked 84% of its 6 million ETH holdings and projects $400 million in annual staking revenue...

Bitmine Immersion Technologies stock declined Monday despite acquiring 12,532 ETH, bringing its total holdings to over 6 million tokens worth approximately $15.3 billion.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has shared a strategic plan for the network through 2030, emphasizing zero-knowledge proofs and throughput enhancements.