Solana’s 300ms speed boost to outrun trading bots might come with a hidden cost
Fee-charging pools have the clearest modeled benefit, while proprietary market makers and validators face different trade-offs.
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It looks like a stock and trades like a stock, but it isn’t actually a stock – what is it?
Tokenized stocks promise cheaper trading and wider access, while some products make speculation easier without passing shareholder rights to the buyer. Two people can open their investment apps, see the same company name beside a similar price, and still own…
How 4,100 stolen Bitcoin bankrolled a life of private jets and supercars
Prosecutors say the group stole and laundered more than $245 million in crypto, spending proceeds on club parties, private jets and exotic cars.
How Tether’s $45 million crackdown drove Southeast Asian scam compounds into an ‘unfreezable’ decentralized stablecoin
Bitrace puts targeted Xinbi-linked holdings above $45 million as the sanctioned marketplace announces a USDD-only plan.
Ethereum’s institutional staking boom is growing, but Lido’s share is shrinking
Lido captured just 5.7% of H1 staking growth, while a negative NEST budget shows why deposits alone cannot fund purchases.
Bitcoin miner manufacturer Canaan sells crypto to buy back shares after $97 million loss
Revenue fell below its $35 million guidance floor, while later crypto sales funded part of its share buybacks.
Bitcoin traders bet borrowed money on a rally as oil surges ahead of Friday’s inflation test
Bitcoin is holding above $78,000 as Brent crude breached $100 and rising Treasury yields revived inflation fears. Data from CryptoSlate showed the flagship cryptocurrency trading around $78,451 at press time, with little sign of the pressure spreading across bond and…
You can borrow against Bitcoin without selling it, but there’s a catch
Bitcoin holders who need cash do not necessarily have to sell their BTC. They can borrow against it instead, keeping exposure to Bitcoin while using its value as collateral for a loan. The complication is that the loan they want…
Nearly a fifth of all Bitcoin mining power is sitting completely dark, and turning it back on could trigger a brutal margin trap
Luxor estimates 235 EH/s of capacity is idle for mixed reasons, complicating the capitulation signal as Texas’s summer curtailment window ends.
Bitcoin holds near $78,500 as a surging Japanese yen threatens global risk assets
ETF inflows offer support ahead of the BOJ’s September 17–18 meeting, while futures-led gains leave Bitcoin exposed if demand weakens.
Does becoming a federal bank protect crypto from Washington—or give Washington more control?
Alan Lane’s new Silvergate account raises a question for crypto trust banks: how much protection survives a change in supervisors?
Bitcoin just hit a decade-low S&P 500 correlation, but the daily data tells a different story
Bitwise’s negative trend measure coexists with positive return correlation in a FRED proxy, while portfolio results change across lookbacks.