What the November 2025 Hard Fork Will Deliver

Ethereum’s next upgrade, Fusaka, goes live in November ahead of Devconnect Ethereum’s upcoming Fusaka hard fork is slated for early November 2025, setting the stage for one of the most consequential Ethereum network upgrades in years.  Unlike Pectra, the May 2025 fork that delivered visible changes like account abstraction and higher staking limits, Fusaka operates behind…

How Plushies Saved Pudgy Penguins NFTs From Bankruptcy

Just about three years ago, non-fungible token (NFT) brand Pudgy Penguins was nearing bankruptcy — now it’s projected to end the year with $50 million in revenue. CEO and owner Luca Schnetzler (better known as Luca Netz) built a fortune through Instagram before breaking into the toy industry. In the blockchain world, he was among…

How To Spot Dead Or Inactive Blockchain Projects

Key takeaways Ghost chains are blockchains that are technically operational but have little to no real-world usage, development, or community engagement. Common warning signs include stagnant developer activity, low transaction volume, inactive communities, and exchange delistings. Even well-funded or corporate-backed projects like Diem, KodakCoin, and Luna can fail if adoption and ecosystem growth stall. Investors…

Bitcoin’s Corporate Adoption raises Fort Knox-like Nationalization concerns

Corporate Bitcoin treasuries have surged past $100 billion, raising concerns among analysts that the United States could one day nationalize these holdings in a move reminiscent of the gold standard era. Corporate crypto treasuries have surpassed $100 billion of digital asset holdings, with Bitcoin (BTC) treasury firms amassing 791,662 BTC worth about $93 billion, representing…

Bitcoin Eyes All-Time Highs While Traders Wait For $117,000 Retest

Bitcoin (BTC) starts a new week in an exciting place as price action knocks on new all-time highs. Bitcoin surges to $122,000, the latest sign that price discovery is around the corner. Dip discussions focus on the weekend’s CME gap, which offered $117,000 as a retracement target. CPI and PPI are due this week as…

S&P Global Expands Credit Ratings to Crypto Institutions, Including Stablecoins and Digital Asset Funds

S&P Global Ratings assigned a “B-” issuer credit rating to Sky Protocol, formerly known as Maker Protocol, marking the first time a major agency has issued a rating for a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform. The rating is part of S&P’s ongoing assessment of stablecoin issuers, which began in 2023 to evaluate their ability to maintain…

GSR, DigiFT Bring Live OTC Trading to $13.4B Tokenized Real-World Asset Market

Crypto market maker GSR has partnered with regulated tokenized asset exchange DigiFT to launch secondary over-the-counter (OTC) trading for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs). The move comes as the real-world asset sector has been grown to over $13.4 billion worth of assets, according to data from DeFiLlama. The bulk of that comes in the form of…

An Institutional Entity Has Bought Ether Worth $946M In The Past 7 Days.

An unidentified entity has been accumulating Ether (ETH) aggressively over the past week, buying 221,166 ETH as the asset rallied by 21%. In the past 24 hours alone, the “mysterious institution” bought $212 million of Ether, according to data analytics platform Lookonchain. The whale tracker said the entity is using six different wallets to store…

An Institutional Entity Has Bought Ether Worth $946M In The Past 7 Days.

An unidentified entity has been accumulating Ether (ETH) aggressively over the past week, buying 221,166 ETH as the asset rallied by 21%. In the past 24 hours alone, the “mysterious institution” bought $212 million of Ether, according to data analytics platform Lookonchain. The whale tracker said the entity is using six different wallets to store…

Bitcoin Investment Banks are Coming

Regulated Bitcoin (BTC) investment banks are coming to El Salvador, following Thursday’s approval of El Salvador’s Investment Banking Law, which classifies investment banks under different regulations than commercial banks. Investment banks will now be allowed to hold BTC and other digital assets on their balance sheets and offer crypto services to “sophisticated” investors, the equivalent…