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Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. In every industry, specialization eventually outpaces generalization. As the complexity of systems increases, the tools that thrive are not the ones that attempt to do everything at once, but the ones designed to do one thing exceptionally well. Notably, technology has always followed this path. Cloud computing is split into storage, compute, and databases, chip design is branched into CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs, and finance came to rely on clearinghouses and custodians as dedicated infrastructure. Blockchain is…
For years, Balancer stood as one of DeFi’s most reliable institutions, a protocol that had survived several bear markets, audits, and integrations without scandal.However, that credibility collapsed on Nov. 3, when the blockchain security firm PeckShield reported that Balancer and several of its forks were under an active exploit spreading across multiple chains.Within hours, more than $128 million was gone, leaving a trail of drained pools, frozen protocols, and shaken investors.PeckShield data showed the platform’s protocol on Ethereum suffered the heaviest losses of about $100 million. Berachain followed with $12.9 million, while Arbitrum, Base, and smaller forks such as Sonic,…
Opinion by: Aishwary Gupta, global head of payments and RWAs at Polygon LabsMost of the eye-popping RWA numbers making headlines are smoke and mirrors. Unless the industry course-corrects, it risks eroding the institutional trust it has spent years trying to build. Every week brings another announcement claiming billions in tokenized assets. When institutional investors request basic details, however, the answers become mysteriously vague. OpenAI was forced to distance itself from Robinhood’s claim that it was offering access to tokenized stock, clarifying that this did not represent real equity in the company. In May 2025, the SEC charged Unicoin for misleading investors…
BitMine’s stock price retreated for seven consecutive days as the crypto market remained under pressure, with Bitcoin and top altcoins continuing to fall. Summary BitMine share price has formed a bearish pennant pattern. The company continued accumulating Etherem and now holds 3.39 million coins. Its total holdings are worth over $14.2 billion today. BitMine Immersion (BNMR) stock dropped to $42.76, its lowest level since September 8, and 73% below its highest level this year. This crash has mirrored that of other top Digital Assets Treasury companies, which have moved into a deep bear market, with companies like Strategy, Metaplanet, and…
Michael Saylor’s Strategy added another 397 Bitcoin worth about $45.6 million, but the company’s buying pace continues to slow compared to its pre-October accumulation streak.Strategy acquired 397 Bitcoin (BTC) worth $45.6 million last week at an average price of $114,771 per coin, according to a Monday filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.This brought its total holdings to 641,205 BTC, acquired for $47.49 billion at an average price of $74,047 per coin, with a Bitcoin yield of 26.1% year-to-date (YTD), according to a Monday X post from Strategy.The previous week, the company purchased 390 BTC for $43.3 million, bringing…
The Ethereum Foundation has introduced a new grant structure for the Ecosystem Support Program to further innovation and adoption on the Ethereum blockchain. Summary Ethereum Foundation announces new grants program approach. Move follows the organization’s brief pause to all open applications in late August. The Ethereum community is looking forward to the activation of the Fusaka upgrade. The Ethereum ecosystem support program team announced the new initiative via a blog post. Rather than open applications, the project will adopt a dual approach: one focused on a Wishlist and another on Requests for Proposals. EF brings this new approach to the…
Key takeawaysReuters estimates Trump-linked ventures earned $802 million in crypto in early 2025.Income came from WLFI tokens, the TRUMP coin and USD1 stablecoin yields.Alt5 Sigma’s deal and foreign buyers helped turn token value into cash.As US crypto enforcement eased, experts noted possible conflict concerns.In the first half of 2025, Trump-linked ventures booked roughly $802 million in crypto income, primarily from World Liberty Financial (WLFI) token sales and the Official Trump (TRUMP) memecoin, dwarfing revenue from golf, licensing and real estate.Reuters’ investigation and methodology papers detail where the cash came from and how it was tallied. This guide explains the mechanics,…
Over the past few years, the Ethereum ecosystem has grown in depth, diversity, and maturity. Builders and communities worldwide have pushed the boundaries of what’s possible, creating new tools, protocols, and public goods that strengthen the network as a whole. As the ecosystem grows, our approach to supporting it must adapt as well. Today, we’re excited to share the next step in that journey: the Ecosystem Support Program’s (ESP) new grants program. This announcement builds on our earlier update, where we temporarily paused open grant applications to reassess our priorities and funding approach. During this time, we focused on designing…
Investor demand for financial privacy is fueling a rally in privacy-preserving cryptocurrencies, signaling renewed interest in self-sovereign blockchain transactions.The market capitalization of privacy-preserving cryptocurrencies rose by about 80% over the past week to briefly surpass $24 billion earlier on Monday before retracing 2.9% to $23.7 billion at the time of writing, according to data aggregator CoinGecko.Dash (DASH) and Zcash (ZEC) were among the best-performing privacy coins last week, with 65% and 9.55% gains, respectively.The privacy coin rally occurred despite a wider crypto market downturn, which saw the total crypto market cap decline by 3.7% over the past week, from $3.96…
Update Nov. 3, 9:47 am UTC: This article has been updated to add the latest figures, Balancer’s white hat bounty offer and comments from Nicolai Sondergaard, research analyst at Nansen.Update Nov. 3, 9:21 am UTC: This article has been updated to include a section on the Balancer flash loan attack from 2020.The decentralized exchange (DEX) and automated market maker (AMM) Balancer has been exploited, with more than $116 million worth of digital assets transferred to a newly created wallet.“We’re aware of a potential exploit impacting Balancer v2 pools. Our engineering and security teams are investigating with high priority,” the Balancer…