Ethereum ‘Ultrasound Money’ Pivot Did Not Help ETH Price Beat Bitcoin

Ether (ETH) has dropped roughly 65% against Bitcoin (BTC) since Ethereum’s 2022 shift to Proof-of-Stake (PoS), casting doubt on the network’s “ultrasound money” thesis. Key takeaways: ETH/BTC three-day performance chart. Source: TradingView Ether’s ultrasound money narrative disappoints The idea behind “ultrasound money” was that Ether would become even scarcer than Bitcoin. Supporters argued that Ethereum’s…

Strategy Posts Record STRC Sales After ATM Rule Change

Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest public holder of Bitcoin, sold a record amount of its perpetual preferred equity, Stretch (STRC), after amending its sales rules on Monday. Strategy is estimated to have bought 1,420 Bitcoin (BTC) in a single day after selling roughly 2.4 million STRC shares through its at-the-market (ATM) program, according to…

DeFi Insurance Is The Final Frontier Of Onchain Finance

Opinion by: Jesus Rodriguez, co-founder of Sentora If you look at decentralized finance (DeFi) as a stack of computational primitives, it’s remarkably complete — yet fundamentally broken. We have automated market makers for liquidity, like Uniswap. We have lending markets for capital efficiency, and bridges for cross-chain “packet switching.” Step back and look at the…

Ethereum ‘Ultrasound Money’ Pivot Did Not Help ETH Price Beat Bitcoin

Ether (ETH) has dropped roughly 65% against Bitcoin (BTC) since Ethereum’s 2022 shift to Proof-of-Stake (PoS), casting doubt on the network’s “ultrasound money” thesis. Key takeaways: ETH/BTC three-day performance chart. Source: TradingView Ether’s ultrasound money narrative disappoints The idea behind “ultrasound money” was that Ether would become even scarcer than Bitcoin. Supporters argued that Ethereum’s…

Policy Signals Point Toward Privacy Preserving, Decentralized Stacks

Opinion by: Agata Ferreira, assistant professor at the Warsaw University of Technology Regulators are increasingly confronting the tough truth about digital power: The biggest risks in today´s digital world are not just about bad actors’ behavior. The risks are baked into how dominant digital systems work today. Lock-in, dependency, data hoarding, opaque control, market dominance…

Bitcoin May Follow Oil With A Rally To $79K

Key takeaways: Oil price spikes often precede 20% spikes in Bitcoin value, though initial market reactions remain volatile and unpredictable. Bitcoin currently mirrors tech stocks with an 81% Nasdaq 100 correlation, making it less sensitive to oil prices. Oil prices surged to $101 per barrel on Sunday, marking a 55% increase in ten days—the largest…

Bhutan Transfers $11.8M in Bitcoin for Possible Sale: Arkham

Bhutan, one of the world’s largest nation-state Bitcoin holders, moved 175 Bitcoin from its main holding address as cryptocurrency markets posted modest gains on Monday. Data from the blockchain analytics platform Arkham shows that the South Asian country moved $11.85 million worth of BTC to an address created a month ago, which previously received 184…

Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 market hits record $1.2 billion in open interest

Decentralized exchange Hyperliquid’s permissionless platform, which lets anyone create perpetual futures tied to any asset, is more popular than ever. Since its debut on Oct. 13, the so-called HIP-3 market has steadily gained traction, with open interest — the total value of all active contracts — hitting a record $1.2 billion on Sunday, according to…

Vitalik Buterin Envisions One-Click Institutional Staking

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has revealed the Ethereum Foundation used a simplified distributed validator technology called DVT-lite to stake 72,000 Ether in February, tech he says could make staking for institutions much easier. “My hope for this project is that in the process, we can make it maximally easy and one-click to do distributed staking…

Vitalik Buterin Envisions One-Click Institutional Staking

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has revealed the Ethereum Foundation used a simplified distributed validator technology called DVT-lite to stake 72,000 Ether in February, tech he says could make staking for institutions much easier. “My hope for this project is that in the process, we can make it maximally easy and one-click to do distributed staking…