ENS Comes Home to Ethereum L1
ENSv2 just shipped on mainnet instead of its planned rollup. It's the latest in a quiet exodus away from L2s.
Crypto & Money
The infrastructure and future of money.
Elysium Lines Up Retail On-Ramps for Day One
Kinetiq's new Hyperliquid-aligned chain launches November 9 with Pump.fun, fomo, Uniswap, and options trading already committed.
ORE Drops the Drill, Keeps the Scarcity
Solana's lottery-mined token ditches computational proof of work — but can a grid-based jackpot produce hard money?
The Markets That Let AI Agents Pay for Themselves
Three onchain inference marketplaces—Orbio, Surplus Intelligence, and Antseed—are turning model access into a tradeable commodity. The economics are still unproven.
Miden's Privacy Chain Goes Live—With Caveats
The a16z-backed Polygon spin-off opens a partner mainnet where your phone proves transactions, but validators can still see your inputs.
Keystone's Breach Just Got Worse
The hardware wallet maker lost its device authentication key, is scrapping 18,835 units, and broke its own data-deletion promise.
a16z Crypto Is Becoming a16z Frontier
The nearly $10B firm is dropping 'crypto' from its name, broadening its mandate, and losing a founding GP — all at once.
Zcash's First Shielded Pool Is Closing
The NU7 upgrade retires the v4 transaction format Sprout depends on. Move your ZEC now, or watch it freeze — possibly forever.
The CFTC Wants to Rewrite the Rules for Crypto
Two proposed frameworks—CTX and CAM—could bring retail margin trading onshore and end the state-by-state licensing maze for exchanges.
Vitalik Wants One STARK to Rule Ethereum's Crypto
EIP-8288 would collapse Ethereum's precompile pile into a single recursive proof — if the Ethereum Foundation agrees.
Ledger's Supply Chain Was the Exploit
An organized criminal group spent months tampering with genuine hardware wallets before Ledger ever knew what hit its distribution network.
Starknet Eyes L1 Escape From Ethereum's Quantum Clock
Starknet is weighing a break from Ethereum to control its own post-quantum migration timeline—targeting full resistance by 2027.
Ledger's Supply Chain Has a Spyware Problem
Hardware implants in authorized-reseller Ledger wallets are stealing recovery phrases across Asia and Europe, with losses estimated above $86M.
Lose Money, Earn Equity: Papertrade Goes Live
A perpetuals exchange on HyperEVM flips the casino model — losers mint the governance token, winners queue for their cut.
Derive V3 Bets on Becoming Options Infrastructure
The Ethereum-native rebuild aims to be the backend other apps plug into — not just a better trading venue.
IMD Wants to Build a Company Staffed Entirely by AI
Ethereum's identity.md project pairs 2,000 NFT work permits with a live agent swarm—and a burn mechanic that eats its own token on every sell.
Ethena's Basis Trade Goes to Wall Street
A new framework lets USDe tap equity perpetuals on Binance and OKX — opening a $150T+ market, with a structural fault hiding in plain sight.
BlackRock Wants AI Agents to Pay in Crypto
The world's largest asset manager argues autonomous agents need stablecoins, blockchains, and eventually a futures market for compute.
Robinhood's Onchain Play Is Just Getting Started
Two months in, Robinhood Chain has $2.1B in tokenized assets. The distribution engine hasn't even switched on yet.
Zcash's NU7 Upgrade Triples Block Speed
The privacy coin's 9th network upgrade cuts block times from 75 to 25 seconds and wires in a fee-burning mechanism—going live November 5.
The SEC's Tokenized Stock Gamble
A five-year exemption lets permissioned AMMs trade real U.S. shares onchain. Whether anyone will use it is another question.
The Onchain Central Bank With No Boss
The Standard Reserve replaces bank charters with soulbound NFTs and puts monetary policy in 4,000 lines of immutable code.
ETH Surges 7%, Squeezes Shorts as CPI Shrugs
Mixed inflation data flipped market mood from risk-off to risk-on — and ETH's crowded short trade paid the price.
Aave V4 Closes In on $1B in Deposits
A Hub-and-Spoke redesign is pulling in capital fast — but the headline number depends on how you count.
HyperStrat Doubles Down, Raises HYPE Limit to $2.5B
Hyperliquid Strategies has nearly burned through its first $1B equity facility. Its answer: add another $1.5B and keep buying.
Hyperliquid Opens Its Prediction Markets to Anyone
HIP-4 goes permissionless: for 500K HYPE, you can now build your own outcome markets on the chain that already ate DeFi's lunch.
Coldcard's Fix Goes Deeper Than the Hack
Coinkite's new firmware mandates hand-rolled entropy and hardens the entire signing pipeline — but old seeds stay burned.
EtherFi Is Building the Boring Bank Crypto Needs
While DeFi chases degens, EtherFi is quietly assembling a self-custodial neobank for people who just want to save, spend, invest, and borrow.
The SEC's Crypto Fundraising Vote Just Evaporated
A last-minute cancellation leaves crypto founders in limbo—and exposes how fragile any SEC-only fix really is.
Zcash Replaces a Broken Pool With Proven Math
After a critical bug let counterfeit ZEC go undetected, the Ironwood upgrade swaps trust for machine-checked proof.
Ondo Ditches Its Blockchain for a Faster Split
The RWA firm scraps Ondo Chain and ships a three-layer execution network that promises CEX speed with onchain settlement.
Solana's Wide-Angle Bet Pays Off
While Hyperliquid owned a single vertical, Solana built the whole menu — and the market just noticed.
Coinbase Turns DeFi Yields Into a Two-Speed Savings Menu
A new High Yield USDC vault built with Ethena and Morpho gives Coinbase users a riskier, higher-returning alternative to its Core product.
Quantum Q-Day Now a Coin Flip by 2032
Ethereum researcher Justin Drake puts 50% odds on a quantum computer cracking live cryptography within seven years — and the optimization secrets are already out.
The US Perp Market Is Open for Business
The CFTC just cracked the door on a $85.7 trillion global trade. What happens when America's capital finally walks through it?
Inference Is the New Compute Gold Rush
AI's shift from training to inference is repricing everything — and crypto's privacy-AI corner is moving fastest.
The End of Blind Signing on Ethereum
A new open standard called Clear Signing aims to fix the structural flaw that let hackers drain Bybit, WazirX, and Radiant Capital.
Your NFT History Belongs to You
A new onchain tool called Catalog lets artists build a self-curated, permanent record of their Ethereum releases — no platform required.