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Curve DAO’s (CRV) price increased over 10% early Wednesday, hitting $0.35 and marking a 41% increase from its low since a recent liquidation crisis involving its founder. On-chain data revealed significant accumulation of CRV by whales this week, with reports indicating a particular increase in purc...

Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the United States for its abandonment of the gold standard, remarking in a Sputnik-released video that the U.S. dollar is now a trust-based currency without tangible backing, a decision underscored by the absence of gold equivalence. This critique arrives ...

Bitcoin Core’s Optech Newsletter #306 is recommending users to, “to upgrade to Bitcoin Core 25.0 or higher within the next two weeks, with the latest version being 27.0.” A new policy was discussed by several Bitcoin Core project members concerning disclosures of vulnerabilities. Low-severity vulner...

The Ethereum network is set to undergo one of its most extensive upgrades named Pectra, which will integrate the EVM Object Format (EOF) and introduce Vitalik Buterin’s proposed EIP-7702, allowing Ethereum account addresses to act as smart contract wallets temporarily during transactions. The Pectra...

The memecoin FLOKI recently crossed 417,400 holders on the BNB Chain, making it the biggest memecoin on that blockchain by market capitalization and number of holders. Recently, the Floki developers launched a new Telegram-based trading bot that allows holders to trade any token on the BNB Chain net...

Bitfarms, a Bitcoin mining firm, reported a 42% drop in crypto mining revenue in May, the first full month following the Bitcoin halving in mid-April, which reduced their Bitcoin production from 263 BTC in April to 156 BTC in May. The company attributed part of the decline in production to “unusuall...

The price of bitcoin (BTC) fell sharply after Mt. Gox, the infamous cryptocurrency exchange that went bankrupt a decade ago, began moving billions worth of the cryptocurrency to a new wallet, Mt. Gox’s first bitcoin transfers in five years. So far the transactions total at least $9 billion worth of ...

Trading in Metaplanet’s stock was halted for two consecutive days by the Tokyo Stock Exchange due to a significant price surge, following the company’s adoption of a bitcoin investment strategy similar to Microstrategy’s, which led to a 158% increase in its share price over the last week. The compan...

The Ethereum-based memecoin Pepe (PEPE) experienced a significant price surge of 40% since Monday to a new all-time high, fueled by the speculation that the U.S. SEC might approve spot ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Crypto traders and analysts, observing the movement between ether’s price rise ...

Farcaster, a decentralized social media platform leveraging the Ethereum blockchain and Optimism’s Layer two ecosystem, has successfully raised $150 million in a funding round led by Paradigm, bringing its valuation to $1 billion. The funds will be used to sustain the project’s development, focusing...