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Bitcoin miners dumped a record 40,000 BTC in the first quarter of this year — more than the entirety of 2025 combined and well above the 20,000 BTC sold in the panic following the Terra collapse in mid-2022. That number sits quietly beneath the surface of what otherwise looks like a recovering market. Related Reading Miners Signal Trouble Even As Prices Climb The sell-off came as mining difficulty dropped 2.4% to 135 trillion, while network hashrate climbed back from roughly 978 exahashes per second to 992 EH/s this month, according to data from Glassnode. When producers sell at record pace…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum is holding its ground as the broader market consolidates, with the price sitting just above $2,332 after modest gains of 1.66% over the past 24 hours and 3.35% over the past week. The moves are not dramatic, but the structure building beneath them may be more significant than the price action suggests. A GugaOnChain analysis is identifying a shift in institutional behavior that changes how the current consolidation should be read. The analysis tracks three distinct address categories on Binance — accumulating addresses, stable whale addresses,…
75.78% of HYPE is staked, 22.28M is in liquid staking, and HyperLend holds about 48% of the liquid staking market. HYPE’s circulating supply appears less available than the headline figure suggests. A large share is now locked in staking, wrapped in liquid staking tokens, or posted as collateral. That setup has narrowed the amount of HYPE that can move freely across the market. It also shows that the token’s active float may be much smaller than the reported circulating supply. Related reading: Bitwise Moves Closer to Hyperliquid ETF Launch with New Filing Details Staking Takes Most of the Available HYPE…
Bitcoin BTC$76,114.71 is breaking out of the Iran-headline chop.The cryptocurrency topped $78,000 on Wednesday morning, up 2.2% over 24 hours and 4.3% on the week, after President Donald Trump said he would extend the Iran ceasefire indefinitely and Strategy disclosed the purchase of 34,164 BTC for $2.54 billion. Ether rose 2.1% to $2,366, BNB climbed 1.3% to $640, and Solana gained 1.8% to $87. The only red in the top 10 was a trickle of 0.1% declines in stablecoins and Tron.The S&P 500 futures rose 0.5% and Nasdaq 100 futures gained 0.6% after Trump’s extension, though the underlying benchmarks closed…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Nine out of 12 council members voted yes. That detail alone tells you how divided — and how serious — the conversation inside Arbitrum’s security council got before the blockchain took its most dramatic action in recent memory. A Council Under Pressure Griff Green, a sitting member of the Arbitrum Security Council, said the group wrestled with the decision for hours. The debates covered technical, practical, ethical, and political ground before the vote was cast. “We did not make this decision lightly,” Green posted on X. In…
Justin Sun sues World Liberty Financial over frozen WLFI tokens, alleging lost rights, token burning threats, and governance issues in a crypto dispute. Justin Sun has filed a lawsuit against World Liberty Financial over frozen WLFI tokens. The case has become an issue in the crypto community today. Furthermore, the conflict underscores the increasing tensions between investors and project teams in digital finance markets. Justin Sun Challenges Token Freeze and Governance Restrictions Justin Sun said that he had filed the suit in a federal court in California. He explained that the move is to safeguard his legal interests as a…
A new report commissioned by Coinbase sounds a cautious, but urgent, alarm: Quantum computing won’t break crypto tomorrow, but the industry can’t afford to wait.The 50-page paper, authored by an independent advisory board that includes prominent cryptographers and academics like Dan Boneh of Stanford University, Justin Drake of the Ethereum Foundation and Sreeram Kannan of Eigen Labs, concludes that while today’s blockchains remain secure, a future “fault-tolerant quantum computer” capable of breaking widely used encryption is increasingly plausible, and preparation must begin now.In recent months, concerns around quantum risk have moved further into the mainstream. Google researchers have published estimates…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The XRP Ledger (XRPL) is making a power play and gaining more ground across the cryptocurrency and blockchain sector. After years of existence, the Ledger has become one of the leading networks in the sector, challenging and surpassing the likes of Solana in terms of Real-World Assets (RWAs). Real-World Assets Sharp Growth On The XRP Ledger Tokenization is picking up pace at a significant rate across the cryptocurrency space. Currently, a notable shift is taking place in the race for real-world asset (RWA) dominance. This shift is…
Crypto exchange Bitget rolled out a new platform offering tokenized exposure to private companies, starting with an asset linked to SpaceX, as firms push to bring early-stage investing onto blockchain rails.The platform, called IPO Prime, allows users to subscribe to tokens that track the economic performance of companies before they go public. Its first listing, preSPAX, is tied to Elon Musk’s space and artificial intelligence firm and is issued through Republic, an investment platform specializing in private markets, with tokens minted on the Solana blockchain.Trading began after a short subscription window, giving users near-immediate liquidity. That marks a break from…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson used his latest livestream to argue that the roughly $292 million KelpDAO exploit was not just another bridge failure, but a broader warning about how Ethereum’s restaking, cross-chain messaging, and lending stack can turn a single compromise into system-wide contagion. In Hoskinson’s telling, the April 18 attack exposed what he sees as the most fragile part of modern DeFi: not necessarily application-level smart contracts, but the verification layers and interdependencies that sit between protocols. He said the exploit, which involved about 116,500 rsETH…