Sending ether ETH$1,892.86 will no longer always carry the same network fee, breaking one of Ethereum’s oldest rules of thumb. Developers from the Ethereum Foundation, the nonprofit that supports and maintains Ethereum, told wallet makers, blockchain trackers, and fee calculators in a blog post to update any software built on the assumption that a basic […]

Bitcoin traded near $64,100 on Tuesday, up 1% on the day and holding above $64,000 even as rising bond yields and climbing oil drained appetite for risk assets, per CoinDesk data. Ether held near $1,893 and the rest of the majors sat flat, with Hyperliquid the week’s outlier, up 8.3%. The pressure is coming from […]

Fiona Murray, Ripple’s managing director for Asia Pacific, said the deal reflects growing momentum across Korea’s institutional financial sector, with banks building digital asset capability and looking for long-term infrastructure partners. Regional banks play a vital role in the real economy, she said. The company has spent the past year pushing RLUSD, the dollar-pegged token […]

Investors were allocated about 19.7 billion MON, nearly 20% of the original supply. Those tokens were locked when Monad’s public network launched last November and begin unlocking after a one-year wait, followed by monthly releases over the remainder of a four-year schedule. That makes November the first point at which early investors begin receiving tokens […]

Bitcoin rose above $64,000 on Tuesday, up over 1% on the day and marginally higher on the week, the only major with a meaningful gain as the rest of the market drifted lower. Ether eased half a percent to just under $1,900, though it holds an almost 1% weekly gain. XRP fell over 1% to […]

Private payment systems on Ethereum can already hide information using cryptographic proofs, but getting those transactions onto the blockchain still takes extra infrastructure, and some designs route users through relayers, outside services that submit the transaction on their behalf. Frame Transactions is one of 66 proposals on the table for Hegotá, expected to follow this […]

Bitcoin near $63,500 looks like more summer torpor, capped below $64,000 and holding above the low-$60,000s, but the flow picture underneath has reversed, said Yusuf Fakhro, partner at ARP Digital, in a note to CoinDesk. US spot ETFs took in more than 14,000 BTC over five days into August 7, he said, the strongest stretch […]

XRP traders are increasingly betting on a rebound even as the token struggles around $1 and online commentary turns its most bearish in three months. Futures open interest, the money tied up in outstanding derivatives positions, rose to about $2.78 billion on Monday, up 2% over 24 hours, with trading volume jumping 55% to roughly […]

Bitcoin crossed $64,000 in Asian morning hours Monday, up half a percent on the day but down almost 3% over the week, as a softer dollar and fading rate-hike bets failed to lift crypto out of its recent range. Hyperliquid’s HYPE was the standout, up over 3% to $59 and almost 9% on the week, […]

More than three dozen bitcoin and crypto companies have asked the largest AI labs to give open-source security researchers early access to their most capable models, arguing that the people defending a trillion dollars of infrastructure are working with weaker tools than those attacking it. The letter, organised by the Bitcoin Policy Institute and published […]