The Ethereum Foundation, which oversees the development of the Ethereum network, announced the “Privacy Cluster,” a team of 47 experts across the blockchain industry tasked with bringing privacy features to the layer-1 smart contract network.
Ethereum’s privacy cluster brings together

Wisconsin Representative Bryan Steil, one of the original cosponsors of the House of Representatives’ crypto market structure bill, the CLARITY Act, said Republicans’ timeline of passing the legislation before 2026 was still the plan, despite the ongoing government shutdown.
In a Wednesday CNBC

A majority of lawmakers in the US Senate voted to confirm Jonathan McKernan as Under Secretary for Domestic Finance at the Department of the Treasury.
In a Tuesday vote of 51 to 47, the Senate confirmed McKernan to the US Treasury, serving under Secretary Scott Bessent. Though the US government

The Bank of North Dakota is entering the stablecoin market with Roughrider Coin, a US dollar–backed cryptocurrency developed in partnership with payments firm Fiserv.
According to a Wednesday announcement, the token will be available to banks and credit unions in North Dakota in 2026 and is

Shayne Coplan, the founder of prediction market Polymarket, is once again in the limelight, as prediction markets shift from regulatory bans in the United States to legitimate financial markets with institutional backing.
Bloomberg named Coplan among the world’s

Square, the payments processor owned by Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc., has launched a new feature enabling local businesses to accept Bitcoin at the point of sale and hold the digital asset in an integrated wallet — a move that could help advance Bitcoin’s use as a medium of exchange.
Announced on

Opinion by: Joshua Chu, co-chair of the Hong Kong Web3 Association
It is no secret that Dubai has been aggressively challenging its Asian counterparts for the crown of becoming the world’s next crypto capital.
Beneath the gleaming air-conditioned skyscrapers, where supermodels are everywhere at c

Inspired by Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin playbook, Joseph Lubin believes Ethereum treasury companies could provide outsized returns on yield and investment opportunities to their Bitcoin counterparts.

Speaking exclusively to Cointelegraph at Token2049 in Singapore, the Ethereum co-founder unpacked h

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Stablecoins are nearing a $300-billion market cap, but adoption remains limited due to risks around depegging, collateral and trust.
The depegging of stablecoins such as NuBits (2018), TerraUSD (2022) and USDC (2023) has revealed vulnerabilities across both algorithmic and

Ethereum recorded its largest validator exit on record this week, with more than 2.4 million Ether worth over $10 billion awaiting withdrawal from its proof-of-stake network, but institutional participants are stepping in with billions in the validator entry queue.
Ethereum’s exit queue

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Shares in Bitcoin miner IREN and treasury company Kindly MD have closed with losses on Tuesday after each announced multimillion-dollar convertible note deals amid a slowdown in venture capital activity in the crypto sector.
Shares in IREN (IREN) finished Tuesday’s trading session with a gain

The largest federation of trade unions in the US says it has “serious concerns” about the Senate’s draft bill to regulate crypto, claiming it lacks worker protections and poorly regulates the sector
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) opposed the

Bitcoin has a 50% probability of surpassing $140,000 this month, according to simulations using data from the past decade, says economist Timothy Peterson.
“There is a 50% chance Bitcoin finishes the month above $140k,” Peterson said in an X post on Wednesday. “But there is a 43% chance Bitcoin fin

Solana generated $2.85 billion in revenue over the past year, according to a new report from 21Shares, driven by trading platform activity.
Between October 2024 and September 2025, Solana averaged about $240 million in monthly revenue, peaking at $616 million in January during the memecoin boom