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Ether’s Harder Phase: Network Growth Meets Doubts Over Value Capture
Ethereum’s growth is colliding with questions over ETH value capture, layer-two fees, DeFi activity, staking, ETF demand and regulation as investors reassess the token’s long-term outlook.
Crypto’s Institutional Future Now Runs Through Regulated Dollar Payments
Stablecoin legislation could reshape crypto’s institutional future by determining who issues digital dollars, how reserves are managed, and whether payment liquidity flows through regulated U.S. financial infrastructure.
Robinhood Chain’s Stablecoin Market Is Growing at Breakneck Speed
The stablecoin race has a new contender. While Ethereum, Solana and Base continue to dominate headlines, Robinhood’s blockchain is quietly experiencing one of the fastest growth spurts in the industry. Over the past week alone, the network’s stablecoin market capitalization has jumped by
Samsung Brings Stablecoins to Millions of Smartphones With a Major Samsung Wallet Upgrade
Samsung is taking another significant step into digital finance. The company has announced that Samsung Wallet will add support for stablecoins, expanding the app beyond traditional payments and rewards into a unified hub for digital assets. The announcement, made during Galaxy Unpacked 2026, signal
AI Is Becoming Every Hacker’s Force Multiplier: What DeFi and Crypto Must Prepare for Next
For years, the cryptocurrency industry has been locked in an arms race with increasingly sophisticated hackers. Smart contract exploits evolved from simple coding mistakes into carefully orchestrated, multi-stage attacks involving cross-chain bridges, flash loans and social engineering. Now, a new p
Visa’s OUSD Platform Turns Stablecoins Into Institutional Payment Infrastructure
Visa is no longer treating stablecoins as an experimental feature attached to the edges of its payment network. With the launch of the Visa Stablecoin Platform, the company is building a dedicated operating layer through which banks, fintechs and payment providers can mint, hold, transfer and redeem
Avalanche’s Stablecoin Boom Explained: Why Billions Are Suddenly Flowing Into AVAX
Avalanche has quietly become one of the hottest destinations for stablecoin capital in crypto. While much of the market has been focused on Bitcoin, Ethereum ETFs and the growing race between Layer-1 blockchains, a surprising trend has emerged beneath the surface: Avalanche’s stablecoin ecosys
Hedera’s DeFi Flagship Bonzo Lend Loses $9 Million in Devastating Oracle Exploit
Hedera’s decentralized finance ecosystem has suffered one of its most damaging security incidents to date after an attacker extracted approximately $9.05 million from Bonzo Lend, the network’s leading lending protocol. The attack did not break Hedera’s blockchain or directly compromise Bonzo’s lendi
CFTC Chair: Prediction Markets Are “The Next Crypto” as Washington Signals a New Era for Digital Finance
Prediction markets may be approaching the kind of expansion that turned cryptocurrency from a narrow experiment into a global financial industry. That is the view of Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Michael Selig, who argues that event-based markets are evolving beyond their original us
EU Parliament Opens the Door to DeFi, Staking and NFTs Under MiCA
Europe’s crypto rulebook may be about to get a second act. After years of building MiCA into the world’s most comprehensive crypto framework, lawmakers are now looking at what the regulation left outside: decentralized finance, staking, crypto lending and NFTs. The European Parliament has adopted it
CZ’s Hyperliquid Admission Exposes the New Fault Line in Crypto Exchanges
When Changpeng Zhao says Binance cannot compete with a rising exchange, the market listens. Not because Binance suddenly looks weak, but because CZ rarely frames competition in such blunt terms. His recent comments on the Galaxy Brains podcast about Hyperliquid were notable for exactly that reason.
Ondo Brings Wall Street to Ledger Wallets: Tokenized Stocks Move Closer to Crypto’s Self-Custody Era
The line between crypto wallets and brokerage accounts is getting thinner. Ondo Finance has integrated more than 260 tokenized stocks and ETFs into Ledger Wallet, allowing users to access assets such as tokenized Nvidia, Amazon, McDonald’s and major ETFs directly from a self-custody environment. For