Author: Mari-Johanna Mäkelä
Vitalik Buterin unveiled “Lean Ethereum” on July 4, 2026, calling it the protocol’s third major evolution and warning that nearly every core component will be replaced over three to four years. The plan, published...
President Donald Trump disclosed more than $1.4 billion in cryptocurrency-related income for 2025 in his annual filing with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, released June 30. The 927-page document puts a hard dollar...
Fifty-four Ethereum Foundation employees lost their jobs on June 23, 2026, as the organization confirmed a 20% headcount reduction alongside a roughly 40% budget cut. The cuts arrived on the same day five former...
Strategy’s STRC preferred stock hit an intraday low of $82.53 on June 19, down more than 17% from its $100 par value, raising hard questions about the durability of Bitcoin-backed credit instruments. The shares...
A U.S. export control directive that forced Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models on June 12, 2026 handed decentralized AI tokens their clearest political argument yet. Within 24 hours, Venice’s...
Bitcoin is trading at $61,676, down 2.36% over the past 24 hours, after U.S. military strikes against Iran on June 9 collapsed a fragile ceasefire and sent risk assets sharply lower. The price action...
A wallet linked to Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin moved 80,001 ETH, worth roughly $122 million, on June 6, 2026, after more than three years of dormancy. The transfer landed at the worst possible moment:...
On May 29, 2026, the CFTC approved the first Bitcoin perpetual futures contract on a US-registered exchange and granted Coinbase a no-action position to route domestic clients to offshore perps markets. The two actions...
A Satoshi-era Bitcoin miner transferred 2,650 BTC worth approximately $203 million to institutional OTC desks FalconX and Cumberland on Sunday, according to blockchain analytics provider Onchain Lens citing Arkham data. The move came on...
Tokenized real-world assets have crossed $34 billion in total market value, a more than tenfold increase from mid-2024 levels, even as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has pulled back on a framework that...