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Swift’s Blockchain Ledger Pushes Banks Into the Era of 24/7 Digital Money
The global banking system just took another step toward blockchain-powered payments, and this time the signal is coming from the heart of traditional finance. Swift has confirmed that 17 major banks are preparing to pilot live cross-border transactions using tokenised deposits on its new blockchain-
Hyundai Puts Avalanche to the Test as Stablecoins Move Closer to Corporate Finance
For years, blockchain advocates have argued that stablecoins would eventually become part of everyday corporate finance rather than remain confined to cryptocurrency exchanges and decentralized finance. That vision has now taken another meaningful step forward. Hyundai Card has successfully complete
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
Bitcoin and Ethereum Are Leaving Exchanges. Now the Bounce Has Teeth.
The crypto market rarely turns on a single signal, but some signals matter more than others. Right now, one of the most important is hiding in plain sight: Bitcoin and Ethereum are not piling onto exchanges. They are leaving them. At the same time, both assets have bounced sharply from recent lows,
Hoskinson Says Ethereum Is Borrowing Cardano’s Biggest Innovation Without Giving Credit
The long-running rivalry between Cardano and Ethereum has flared up once again, this time over one of blockchain’s most fundamental design choices. Charles Hoskinson, founder of Cardano and one of Ethereum’s original co-founders, has accused the Ethereum ecosystem of attempting to adopt
Bitcoin’s Spam War Reignites as Dashjr Backs BIP-110
Bitcoin’s oldest philosophical fight is back, and this time it is not about block size. It is about what Bitcoin is allowed to be. A payment network? A settlement layer? A monetary base? Or a permanent storage system for tokens, images, inscriptions, metadata, and experiments that happen to fit insi
Ethereum’s UTXO Debate Exposes the Limits of the EVM Era
Ethereum is once again confronting a design choice it made more than a decade ago. The network that became the default settlement layer for smart contracts was built around accounts, balances, contract storage, and the Ethereum Virtual Machine. That model gave Ethereum its expressiveness and helped
Bitmine’s Ethereum Endgame Comes Into View as Treasury Reaches 4.8% of Global ETH Supply
Bitmine has pushed its Ethereum accumulation strategy to the edge of a historic threshold, turning what once looked like a bold treasury experiment into one of the most aggressive corporate bets in crypto markets. With 5.74 million ETH now on its balance sheet, the company controls about 4.8% of Eth
Strategy’s Bitcoin Era Is Ending? Why Institutions Could Become the Market’s Biggest Buyers
For the past several years, one company has stood above all others in shaping institutional demand for Bitcoin. Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy, transformed itself from an enterprise software company into the world’s largest corporate Bitcoin holder, inspiring dozens of firms to foll