Optimism\\\'s OP token has plunged by more than 20% over the past 24 hours, coinciding with the announcement that Base, a popular layer 2 solution, is transitioning from the OP Stack to a unified, self-o

AI is poised to take a measurable bite out of the world’s creative economy, and the legal tools meant to protect artists are already showing their seams. UNESCO’s latest Re|Shaping Policies for Creat

Altcoin selling pressure has hit its highest level in five years, suggesting investors have largely exited speculative positions—even as a handful of narrative-driven tokens stage fleeting rallies. S

Federal researchers are embracing prediction markets as policy-relevant tools just as state regulators move to curtail them. In a working paper, Federal Reserve researchers say macro-focused predicti

Crypto prices may be down, but the mood inside ETH Denver on opening day is up. Despite the cold, a line formed outside the new venue, the National Western Center, well before doors opened. For ETH

Coinbase signaled on Wednesday that its crypto-backed lending product is expanding in the U.S., unveiling support for XRP, Dogecoin, Cardano, and Litecoin. By posting their holdings as collateral on

ChatGPT maker OpenAI and crypto-focused investment firm Paradigm have introduced EVMbench, a tool to help improve Ethereum Virtual Machine smart contract security. EVMbench is designed to evaluate AI

Publicly traded Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms “has a tremendous opportunity for value creation” via the empowerment of AI data centers to power the growing high-performance computing industry, activist

Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel exited his 7.5% stake in Ethereum treasury firm ETHZilla during Q4 2025, according to new filings with the SEC.  Thiel\\\'s exit comes amid plunging prices for shar

Ethereum layer-2 scaling network Base, which was incubated by publicly traded crypto exchange Coinbase, said Wednesday that it will modify its technology foundation, introducing a new unified tech sta

The first SUI ETFs have started trading as fund issuers Canary Capital and Grayscale make their debuts. The Sui layer-1 blockchain was launched in 2023 as a so-called \\\"Solana killer\\\" because it uses

There’s a new heavyweight fighting for the future of decentralized finance on Capitol Hill. The Hyperliquid Policy Center, or HPC, announced its debut on Wednesday, positioning itself as a resource f

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said Wednesday that crypto companies who think they can walk away from an industry market structure bill currently stalling in Congress “should move to El Salvador.” S

Sai has announced the launch of Sai Perps, a perpetuals trading platform designed to combine the accessibility of centralized exchanges with the transparency and self-custody of onchain settlement. Th

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