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Zcash Surges Past $800 as Grayscale ETF Effort Ignites Trading Frenzy

Eight-Year High Fuels ETF Hopes Zcash (ZEC) soared 48% to over $800, marking its highest price in eight years and surpassing its previous January 2018 peak...

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MANTRA Blockchain Exploit Triggers Network Halt and Token Slide

By David E | 1 month ago

Price Plunge Precedes Sudden Network Freeze Just before MANTRA Chain abruptly halted operations, its native token suffered a sharp decline of 18.5% from its 24-hour high, plummeting from $0.005060 to a record low of $0.004126 around 11:00.....

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Tether’s First Full Audit: KPMG Signs Off, Reserves Exceed Liabilities by $6.8B

By David E | 1 month ago

KPMG’s Clean Bill Boosts Credibility For the first time in its history, Tether has completed a comprehensive independent audit of its financial statements, with KPMG U.S.—one of the world’s “Big Four” accounting firms—delivering an.....

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Kalshi’s Real-Time Data Ambitions Collide With Regulatory Hurdles

By Loic Dos Santos | 1 month ago

High-speed feeds meet legal headwinds Prediction market Kalshi is pushing the boundaries of crypto trading infrastructure by launching a real-time, machine-readable data feed in partnership with Solana-based DoubleZero...

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Trump Media Retreats From Crypto.com Deals as Priorities Shift

By Loic Dos Santos | 1 month ago

Trump Media’s Crypto Bet Unravels Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), the company behind Truth Social, is walking back its ambitious foray into crypto...

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Revisiting: Circle’s $222M Arc Token Presale, Three Months Later

By David E | 1 month ago

What Our Earlier Coverage Reported On May 11, 2026, our earlier coverage reported that Circle Internet Group had raised $222 million in a private presale for its new ARC token, attracting major institutional investors like Standard.....

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Bank of Italy Study Finds Stablecoin Remittances Often No Cheaper Than Traditional Methods

By Loic Dos Santos | 1 month ago

Conversion Fees Erode Stablecoin Savings A recent study from the Bank of Italy has cast doubt on the assumption that stablecoins offer a consistently cheaper alternative for international remittances...

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We checked: Four months after Drift Protocol’s $285M exploit, what did it mean for DeFi and ETH?

By Loic Dos Santos | 1 month ago

What our earlier coverage said On April 3, 2026, our earlier coverage reported that Drift Protocol, Solana’s largest decentralized perpetual futures exchange, was hit by a $285 million exploit that drained its vaults in just 12 minutes...

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Luno Cuts 20% of Global Staff as Automation and Crypto Downturn Bite

By Loic Dos Santos | 1 month ago

Second Round of Cuts This Decade Cryptocurrency exchange Luno is reducing its global workforce by roughly 20%, marking the company's second major round of layoffs in less than four years...

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Zcash Ironwood Upgrade: $80M Migrates as Counterfeiting Bug Forces Shielded Pool Overhaul

By David E | 1 month ago

$80M Shifts to Ironwood Shielded Pool Zcash users moved approximately 176,000 ZEC—valued at about $81 million—into the newly launched Ironwood shielded pool within just 24 hours of its activation, according to coindesk.com...