Month: May 2025

Tezos has successfully activated Rio, its 18th protocol upgrade, marking another milestone in the blockchain’s Tezos X roadmap.  The upgrade was approved through the network’s on-chain governance process, with participation from validators and community members, and aims to enhance staking…...

Someday you’ll be out of a job. So will I, so will your neighbor, so will your best friend, and so will all of your family. All of our jobs will be automated, thanks to AI. This is the prediction of Shaw Walters (who in Web3 style typically just...

CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2800.48, up 3.2% (+86.71) since 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday. All 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: SUI (+8.2%) and AAVE (+5.9%). Laggards:...

Dinari, a crypto startup focused on tokenizing real-world assets, has raised $12.7 million in a Series A funding round led by Hack VC and Blockchange Ventures, with backing from VanEck Ventures, F-Prime, and the Avalanche Fund, according to a Fortune report. The round brings the California-based firm’s total funding...

Bitcoin (BTC) mining companies with high-performance computing (HPC) exposure underperformed the world’s largest cryptocurrency for the third month in a row in April, Wall Street bank JPMorgan said in a research report on Thursday. Some bitcoin miners have pivoted into new business areas, such as offering HPC services to...

Aztec, a layer-2 rollup focused on privacy, shared Thursday that its testnet has finally gone live. The announcement comes as a wave of new privacy-focused solutions begins to capture the interests of large institutions that need confidentiality with large transaction batches. The team behind Aztec said that they have...

[PRESS RELEASE – Dubai, United Arab Emirates, May 1st, 2025] Announced on stage at Token2049, PipeQuest gives node operators an opportunity to earn rewards in exchange for computing power used by the first decentralized content delivery network (CDN) built on Solana Pipe Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the...

Major European cryptocurrency investment firm 21Shares has filed for a spot Sui exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the United States, marking another step in its expansion to the US market. 21Shares on April 30 submitted the Form S-1 registration for a spot Sui (SUI) ETF to the US Securities and...

Core Foundation (CRYPTO: CORE) on Thursday announced the rollout full integration of its Dual Staking architecture with Maple Finance (CRYPTO: SYRUP), enabling institutional clients to earn yield on Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) without bridging or wrapping assets. The collaboration, launched less than two months ago, has already attracted over 1,200...

Bitcoin, once consigned to speculative corner, has made a thunderous about-face in 2025. It’s no longer just a decentralized anomaly it’s evolving into a strategic asset in both institutional portfolios and country financial planning. This change holds significant lessons for individual investors navigating the broader universe of personal finance....