Blockchain

Update (Sept. 10, 11 am UTC): This article has been updated to add information about Linea’s upcoming airdrop. Ethereum layer-2 network Linea has restored its mainnet sequencer after a temporary performance degradation, the team said […]

A unit of the Chinese fintech conglomerate Ant Group is tokenizing more than $8 billion worth of energy infrastructure on its own blockchain.  Ant Digital Technologies, the enterprise solutions arm of the Jack Ma-backed Ant […]

Key takeaways A crypto inheritance plan is vital because losing private keys or seed phrases can permanently make assets like Bitcoin, Ether and NFTs unrecoverable. A strong inheritance plan includes asset inventories, secure access instructions […]

Whales, or big cryptocurrency investors, have lost millions of dollars by betting on the price appreciation of the Trump family-linked World Liberty Financial (WLFI) token. Since its launch on Monday, the WLFI token’s price fell […]

Key takeaways Companies aren’t just holding ETH; they are staking and restaking to generate steady onchain income. Mega-holders like BitMine (1.5 million ETH) can sway liquidity, validator distribution and even upgrade dynamics. Weekly ETH disclosures […]

Big crypto investors, or whales, were suffering millions in losses on the Trump family-linked World Liberty Financial (WLFI) token, which continued to decline despite a proposal to reduce the circulating supply. Whale wallet 0x432 lost […]

Key takeaways A private key cannot be split in half. It must remain whole to access crypto. Splitting it manually risks permanent loss of funds. Cryptocurrency is marital property. Courts in many countries, including South […]

A decentralized finance (DeFi) trader lost $27 million in crypto after falling victim to a phishing scam, according to blockchain security firm PeckShield.  PeckShield reported on Tuesday that a user of the DeFi lending platform […]

Key takeaways:  Around 70% of all ETH is held by just 10 addresses, but most belong to staking contracts, exchanges or funds, not individual whales. Nearly half of all ETH sits in a single smart […]

California Governor Gavin Newsom has teased plans to launch a “Trump Corruption Coin” as a direct response to Donald Trump’s controversial involvement in crypto, especially through memecoins. Speaking on the “Pivot” podcast, Newsom said the […]