Month: June 2025

Solana’s SOL SOL token is trading at $144.04, down 0.62% in the past 24 hours, after briefly climbing as high as $147.73 earlier in the session, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis model. The move came amid a spike in trading volume and fresh commentary from Syncracy Capital Co-Founder...

Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, CoinDesk’s Tech & Protocols reporter. In this issue: Ethereum Developer Proposes 6-Second Block Times to Boost Speed ZKsync’s Airbender zkVM Proves Ethereum Blocks in 35 Seconds Norway Plans Ban on...

Barclays (BARC), one of the U.K.’s largest banks, said it will stop customers using their credit cards to purchase cryptocurrency by the end of the week. The London-based company will block cryptocurrency transactions on its Barclaycard-branded payment cards starting June 27, it said on a website page published Wednesday....

Zama, a cryptography company pioneering fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) for blockchains, said it raised $57 million in a series B round co-led by Blockchange Ventures and Pantera Capital. The team said the fundraise pushes Zama’s total capital raised to over $150 million and values it at over $1 billion,...

Cardano’s ADA ADA token is trading at $0.5679, down 2.78% in the past 24 hours, after erasing an earlier price rebound, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis model. Despite briefly pushing higher during the latter half of the session, ADA failed to retain upward momentum and slipped toward its...

Moca Network, the identity ecosystem of Web3 investment giant Animoca Brands, is planning to introduce a layer-1 blockchain that will allow Web3 projects to identify and verify users without needing to rely on centralized platforms. Moca Chain will enable user data to be verified by applications across any blockchain,...

Los Angeles, CA, June 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — RI Mining has always taken energy security and self-control as its core, and has achieved independent operation and maintenance of each mine through a closed-loop industrial chain, continuous node updates, and a federal AI scheduling system. This architecture completely solves the...

London, UK, June 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — New mobile-first platform lowers the entry barrier to mining Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and Litecoin London, UK — ZA Miner today unveiled its new zero‑cost reward scheme, enabling newcomers to start mining crypto without buying equipment or mastering complex setups. Leveraging AI‑driven allocation and...

A June 24 blog post by Input Output Research (IOR) and the Intersect Research Working Group marks the clearest pivot yet in Cardano’s scaling strategy. Rather than elevating Hydra as a lone panacea, the six-minute read recaps a recent IOR research session and positions Hydra as simply one branch...

HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ:HIVE) is putting its money, or rather, its Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), where its mouth is. While most Bitcoin miners scramble for capital or take on high-interest debt, HIVE is doing something different: using the BTC on its balance sheet to fund growth. But as CFO Darcy...