Polygon Block Time Cut to 1.75s Marks First Network Speedup Since Genesis Polygon has executed its first block time reduction since launching in May 2020, cutting…
Bitcoin Open Interest Diverges from Price Rally Bitcoin’s price climbed above $75,000 this week, yet derivatives open interest fell 31% since October, signaling a deleveraging that…
Tether Gold Surges to $3.3B as Tokenized Bullion Outpaces Crypto Tether Gold (XAUt) crossed $3.3 billion in market capitalization during the first quarter of 2026, marking…
DTCC Sets October Launch for Tokenized Securities Pilot With 50 Market Giants The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation announced a staged rollout of its tokenization service,…
Canton Network Builds Guardrails for Institutional DeFi Canton Network launched Zenith on April 27, 2026, bridging Ethereum’s public DeFi with institutional privacy controls, signaling banks’ push…
Kraken Acquires US Derivatives Exchange Amid Bitcoin ETF Flow Drought Kraken’s acquisition of a US derivatives exchange marks a strategic expansion into regulated futures trading, coinciding…
a16z Backs CFTC Against State Prediction Market Bans Andreessen Horowitz filed an 18-page comment letter with the CFTC on April 30, 2026, supporting federal oversight of…
Kelp DAO $292M Hack Tops 2026 DeFi Losses at $750M+ Kelp DAO suffered a $292 million exploit on April 19, 2026, marking the year’s largest DeFi…
Crypto VC Funding Drops to $659M in April as Cardano Whales Surge Crypto venture capital funding plunged to $659 million in April 2026, the lowest monthly…
