Blockchain

Solana Came Within 4.5% of Losing Finality After One Hosting Provider’s Routing Error

Solana came dangerously close to temporarily losing its ability to finalize transactions after a networking error at a single infrastructure provider…

1 month ago

BTCPay Offers Up to 3 BTC Bounty After Critical Exploit Drains Lightning Wallets

Supporters of BTCPay Server have committed to paying a recovery bounty worth 10% of any stolen Bitcoin recovered, capped at 3 BTC, following…

1 month ago

World Chain Becomes First Layer 2 to Deploy Flashblocks Ahead of Ethereum Upgrade

World Chain, the Optimism-based Layer 2 blockchain powering the World digital identity ecosystem co-founded by Sam Altman, is set to become the first production…

1 month ago

Circle Taps Visa, Mastercard and BlackRock as Founding Validators for Arc Blockchain Launch

Circle has announced that Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, and several of the world's largest financial institutions will serve as founding validators for its new Arc blockchain when…

1 month ago

Bitcoin Developers Uncover 85 Critical Security Bugs as AI Accelerates Code Audits

A volunteer team of Bitcoin developers has uncovered 85 critical security vulnerabilities and 635 high-severity bugs across 390 Bitcoin-related open-source projects during a large-scale AI-assisted security audit,…

1 month ago

BNY Brings $8.6 Trillion Fund Business On-Chain in Major Wall Street Blockchain Expansion

BNY, the world's largest custodian bank, is bringing one of its core financial businesses onto blockchain infrastructure as it modernizes…

2 months ago

Tether-Backed USAT Expands to Celo With Native Gas Fee Support

Tether's U.S.-regulated stablecoin USAT has expanded beyond Ethereum for the first time, launching natively on the Celo blockchain with built-in support for minting, burning, and transaction fee…

2 months ago

Telegram to Roll Out Native Crypto Wallet to More Than 1 Billion Users This Summer

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has announced that the messaging platform will launch a native non-custodial crypto wallet for its more than 1 billion users this…

2 months ago

New Report Finds Crypto Supports 232,000 U.S. Jobs and Will Contribute $55 Billion to the Economy in 2026

The U.S. cryptocy industry now directly employs approximately 34,000 workers while supporting more than 232,000 total jobs across the broader economy, according to a…

2 months ago

Visa Launches Internal Stablecoin Platform, Bringing OUSD to More Than 200 Million Merchants

Visa has unveiled the Visa Stablecoin Platform, a new internal infrastructure designed to help banks, fintechs, and payment providers mint, move, manage,…

2 months ago