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Bitcoin Mining Rig Maker MicroBT Unveils Most Powerful Machine Yet

[May 18, 2023 2:30 PM] The Chinese rig maker's new model can deliver a wooping 320 TH/s.

Coinbase launches zero trading fee subscription service

[May 18, 2023 1:45 PM] Coinbase’s new subscription service, “Coinbase One," is expected to roll out across 35 countries in the near future.

Attendance at World's Largest Bitcoin Conference Down by Half as 'Crypto Winter' Drags On

[May 18, 2023 7:57 AM] Roughly 15,000 attendees are expected at the Bitcoin 2023 event, versus 35,000 last year – likely a result of the downturn known as “crypto winter.” Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. presidential candidate, is among scheduled speakers.

Coinbase Cloud Joins Chainlink as Node Operator to Bolster Security

[May 18, 2023 6:00 AM] Telecoms giants Swisscom, Deutsche Telekom and news provider Associated Press are also Chainlink node operators.

ApeCoin DAO Approves Proposal to Boost Bored Ape NFTs, APE Ecosystem Growth

[May 18, 2023 5:08 AM] The Ape Accelerator will incubate and launch new projects that strengthen the Bored Ape Yacht Club and ApeCoin ecosystems.

Lido Community Members Propose LDO Token Staking and Buyback Plan

[May 18, 2023 2:26 AM] The proposal includes a revenue-sharing parameter that would redirect 20-50% of “future Lido DAO revenue from the protocol treasury to stakers of $LDO.”

South Korean prime minister calls for disclosure of crypto holdings by high-ranking officials

[May 17, 2023 1:30 PM] Prime Minister Han Deok-soo reportedly believes that including cryptocurrency in property registration is the right thing to do.

Ethereum Briefly Stopped Finalizing Transactions. What Happened?

[May 17, 2023 1:30 PM] The loss in finality meant that blocks could have been tampered with, and while it isn’t supposed to affect end-user experiences, it did lead to some inconveniences for some applications.

Dogecoin's Daily Transaction Reached Lifetime Highs After ‘DRC-20’ Tokens Introduced

[May 17, 2023 12:39 AM] Transactional volumes on Dogecoin briefly surpassed Litecoin and Bitcoin earlier this week.

Lightning Labs Releases 'Better' Version of Token Minting on Bitcoin After BRC-20s Clog System

[May 16, 2023 3:50 PM] The project formerly known as "Taro" has been rebranded "Taproot Assets" after Lightning Labs was hit with a trademark infringement lawsuit. The new offering comes with a "core set of features to bitcoinize the dollar," according to the firm.

Ledger Bats Back Criticism of New Wallet Recovery Service

[May 16, 2023 12:30 PM] “You’re saying this is not what customers want. Actually, this is what future customers want,” said Ledeger CEO Pascal Gauthier.

Optimism, Scaling Solution for Ethereum, Sets June Date for Biggest Ever Upgrade, ‘Bedrock’

[May 16, 2023 11:11 AM] The Bedrock hard fork, proposed earlier this year and approved by the Optimism community in April, is supposed to bring a “new level of modularity, simplicity and Ethereum equivalence.”

Origin Protocol Enters Competitive Ether Yield Market With OETH Offering

[May 16, 2023 10:00 AM] OETH is a yield-bearing, ether-pegged token, offering an easy way to maximize yield from ETH staking using protocols such as Curve Finance.

Asymmetry, ‘ETF’ for Liquid Staking Tokens, Raises $3M Round From Ecco Capital, Ankr and Others

[May 16, 2023 7:00 AM] The crypto project’s safETH token represents a basket of liquid staking tokens from Lido, Rocketpool and Frax.

One Million Individual Wallets Now Hold a Whole Bitcoin

[May 16, 2023 1:57 AM] The bump comes as transactional activity on Bitcoin has surged in the past few weeks.

Token of Layer-1 Blockchain Kava Surges 40% Ahead of Mainnet Upgrade

[May 16, 2023 1:21 AM] The change improves transaction speed and aims to beef up security on the platform, Kava says.

Liquid Staking Leader Lido Upgrades to Second Version on Ethereum

[May 15, 2023 3:57 PM] Lido users can now unstake their stETH and receive ETh at a 1:1 ratio.

Digital asset market shrinks as fund outflows reach $200M: CoinShares

[May 15, 2023 2:45 PM] According to CoinShares, digital asset investment products saw outflows totaling $54 million last week.

Bitcoin Rewards Company Fold Expands to El Salvador, Brushing Off Jump in On-chain Fees

[May 15, 2023 11:17 AM] The firm says El Salvador will serve as its base for operations in Latin America.

Polygon Co-Founder Launches Web3 Fellowship Program

[May 15, 2023 9:31 AM] Sandeep Nailwal and his venture capital arm Symbolic Capital will invest $50,000 on a new cohort each year.

US strips Ethereum dev Virgil Griffith of export privileges for 10 years

[May 15, 2023 6:57 AM] The export privilege ban comes from Griffith’s conviction and further impacts his involvement in international trade and transactions.

Amazon implements AI to enhance logistics and delivery speeds

[May 15, 2023 4:06 AM] Amazon will reportedly use AI to minimize product-customer distance, highlighting its impact on transportation, product search and inventory.

Ether Holders Embrace Near Month-Long Wait for Staking ETH

[May 15, 2023 3:14 AM] Demand for staking ether has surged, resulting in wait times of over a month for a 5% annualized yield as of Monday.

Samsung to research South Korea’s CBDC for offline payments

[May 15, 2023 2:25 AM] The collaboration will have both parties researching the offline capabilities of the CBDC issued by South Korea’s central bank.

Bitcoin Cash Prices Bump Ahead of ‘CashTokens’ Upgrade

[May 15, 2023 12:58 AM] The upgrade is set to go live on mainnet at noon UTC on Monday.

Lido Community Weighing On-Chain Vote to Deploy Version 2 on Ethereum

[May 12, 2023 2:32 PM] If the governance vote passes, the latest iteration of Lido will come to the Ethereum blockchain, Lido’s biggest market.

Staking Platform Agility Soared After Ethereum’s Shapella Upgrade, but It’s Suffered Ever Since

[May 12, 2023 1:35 PM] Key metrics like total value locked (TVL) and the price of its AGI token have tumbled recently, following their post-Shapella runup.

Ethereum Resumes Finalizing Blocks after Second Performance Hiccup in 24 Hours

[May 12, 2023 1:32 PM] Finality refers to the guarantee that a block cannot be altered and removed from the Ethereum blockchain.

Frogs, Fevers and Fees: Bitcoin’s New Governance Challenge

[May 12, 2023 12:30 PM] The creation of Bitcoin-based meme coins using the new BRC-20 standard has driven up Bitcoin fees as they use more data than a basic Bitcoin transaction. But while some developers in the Bitcoin community are proposing a filter to block Bitcoin NFT…

Among Bitcoin Developers, Debate Is Raging Over Whether to Censor Ordinals BRC-20s

[May 12, 2023 8:15 AM] Despite calls for censorship, many developers agree that maintaining the status quo is the right thing to do for now.