Digital assets, crypto market structure, and chain ecosystems.
SEC Chair Paul Atkins, making history as the first sitting chair to address the Bitcoin conference, confirmed a regulatory sandbox for trading tokenized securities on public blockchains and DeFi.
BlackRock's IBIT options open interest crossed $27.6 billion on Friday, overtaking Deribit for the first time and signaling that U.S. regulated derivatives now set the tone for global bitcoin price discovery.
The Senate Banking Committee's April markup window on the CLARITY Act has closed without action, leaving a $317 billion stablecoin market and Coinbase's $1.35 billion yield-revenue stream in regulatory limbo.
Bitcoin developers have filed BIP-361, a five-year plan to freeze 6.7 million quantum-vulnerable BTC, triggering a governance crisis that exposes the limits of the protocol's consensus model.
The Bank for International Settlements has formally classed Binance, Coinbase, Bybit and peers as multifunction cryptoasset intermediaries that bundle bank-like services without bank-like safeguards, citing the October 2025 flash crash that triggered $19 billion of forced liquidations as evidence the system is already systemic.
A new BIS report identifies Binance, Bybit, Coinbase and peers as multifunction crypto intermediaries: deposit-like earn products with no FDIC insurance and no capital floors.
Coinbase and Kraken are trying to bring crypto perpetual futures onshore, a shift that would pull leverage, liquidity and clearing economics back inside regulated U.S. markets.
The roughly $1.5 billion theft at Bybit did more than test one exchange's balance sheet. It exposed how easily crypto's trusted signing workflows can fail when the interface layer is compromised.
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire says a yuan-backed stablecoin could be a major opening, underscoring how tokenized cash is turning into a contest over cross-border currency reach.
Ethereum Foundation's new audit grants target shared crypto tooling, signalling that safer middleware and developer infrastructure may matter more than raw throughput in the next growth cycle.
Charles Schwab's plan to launch spot Bitcoin and Ether trading shows crypto moving into the default brokerage account, raising pressure on specialist exchanges and accelerating wallet convergence.
Publicly traded Bitcoin miners sold a record 32,000 BTC in Q1 2026 as electricity costs surged 30% year-over-year and hashprice fell below $0.05/PH/day, pushing mining margins to multi-year lows.
EIP-7702 transformed every EOA into a smart contract in a single transaction, executing 340,000 times in 72 hours as Argent, Safe, and Sequence deployed paymasters.
Production-grade zero-knowledge virtual machine lets Ethereum L2 developers write Rust and generate ZK proofs without custom circuit design, challenging StarkWare's Cairo dominance.