Circle just pulled $222M from BlackRock, Apollo and a16z to fund Arc, its own blockchain. The stablecoin issuer is done paying rent to Ethereum and Solana.
Coinbase rebounds 10% from session lows as SEC Chair Atkins signals onchain rulemaking. The architecture decision waiting behind the headline matters more than the bounce.
Coinbase booked a $394 million Q1 loss and ate an AWS outage in the same quarter. The exchange is running a casino on someone else's electrical grid.
MoonPay, Ripple and Paxos executives say GENIUS Act clarity unlocked institutional stablecoin entry. The harder problems, privacy and last-mile rails, remain unsolved.
Aave is expanding collateral listing criteria beyond price volatility after a $293M rsETH exploit. The implications reach every protocol with a risk committee.
Core Scientific is paying $421 million for bitcoin miner Polaris, but the prize isn't the hashrate. It's the substations, the land, and the megawatts.
Base is migrating $12B in capital from optimistic rollups to a TEE-plus-ZK design built on Succinct's SP1, compressing finality from roughly seven days to one.