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Grayscale Bets Big on Privacy as It Files for the World’s First Spot Zcash ETF
Privacy coins may be staging an unexpected comeback—and Grayscale Investments just made one of the boldest institutional bets the sector has seen in years. The asset manager has filed to convert its Zcash Trust into a spot ETF, a move that would create the world’s first exchange-traded fund directly
Ethereum Foundation Reshuffles Leadership Ahead of Glamsterdam Upgrade
The Ethereum Foundation is undergoing another major leadership transition as it prepares for one of the network’s most closely watched technical upgrades. The organization announced significant changes inside its Protocol Cluster, naming Will Corcoran, Kev Wedderburn, and Fredrik Svantes as new co-l
Crypto Hacker Returns 90% of Stolen Funds After Project Offers Onchain Deal
Crypto hacks usually end in one of two ways: the attacker disappears forever, or law enforcement spends years chasing wallets across chains with little to show for it. This week, a far stranger outcome played out in DeFi. A hacker who exploited Arbitrum dark pool protocol Renegade and drained roughl
Google and PayPal Are Betting AI Commerce Will Run on Crypto Rails
The AI industry has spent the last two years obsessing over model intelligence—who has the best reasoning model, the best coding assistant, the best multimodal system. But while Silicon Valley raced to build smarter agents, a far more practical problem quietly emerged: autonomous AI still can’t actu
Monero Quietly Expanded Its Anonymity Set From 16 to 150 Million—and Almost Nobody Noticed
While most of crypto remains distracted by ETF headlines, memecoin speculation, and Ethereum scaling debates, Monero just pushed through what may be one of the most important privacy upgrades in blockchain history. On May 6, Monero activated its FCMP++ and CARROT beta stressnet at block 2,997,100—a
Warren Reopens the Meta Stablecoin War as Congress Moves Closer to Crypto Regulation
Elizabeth Warren is reopening one of Silicon Valley’s most politically toxic crypto battles—and Meta is once again at the center of it. This week, Warren sent a sharply worded letter to Mark Zuckerberg accusing Meta of maintaining what she described as a “troubling lack of transparency” around its l
The Subsidy Illusion: What NEAR, Hedera and “Fake Usage” Reveal About Blockchain’s Demand Problem
Crypto has a recurring habit of confusing subsidized activity with genuine adoption. When a blockchain suddenly reports explosive user growth, record-breaking transaction throughput, or dramatic spikes in daily active wallets, the industry tends to treat those numbers as validation that product-mark
Germany Moves to Kill Its Bitcoin Tax Haven as Berlin Targets Crypto Investors for New Revenue
Germany has long been one of the most attractive jurisdictions in Europe for long-term Bitcoin holders—not because it positioned itself as a crypto hub like Dubai or Singapore, but because of a relatively simple tax rule that quietly turned the country into a de facto haven for patient investors. Un
Is the US Government Dumping ETH? A Small Coinbase Transfer Revives a Much Bigger Crypto Fear
Crypto markets have become conditioned to treat government wallets as potential volatility triggers. Every time a known federal address moves funds, traders immediately begin asking whether a liquidation event is underway. That paranoia resurfaced this week after blockchain intelligence platform Ark
TrustedVolumes’ $6.7 Million Hack Exposes DeFi’s Most Dangerous Weak Spot: Custom Infrastructure
DeFi has spent years hardening its flagship smart contracts. Hackers have noticed — and they’re increasingly attacking everything built around them instead. That trend was on full display after crypto liquidity provider TrustedVolumes confirmed it lost roughly $6.7 million in a fresh exploit and is
Vitalik Buterin’s Enterprise Blockchain Verdict: The Consortium Chain Dream Is Over
For years, consortium blockchains were sold as the sober, enterprise-friendly version of crypto: less chaotic than public chains, more collaborative than private databases, and supposedly ideal for banks, supply-chain groups, insurers, governments, and regulated industries. Vitalik Buterin’s latest
Michael Saylor Just Admitted the Endgame: Sell Your Bitcoin
For years, Michael Saylor built his reputation as the most aggressive corporate evangelist for Bitcoin. He transformed Strategy into the largest corporate Bitcoin holder in the world, repeatedly encouraged companies to convert cash reserves into Bitcoin, and became famous for one simple message: buy