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Eight senior Ethereum Foundation departures. ETH near $2,000. A $685M GAAP loss. And yet: Lubin posts 'The surge is coming' and SharpLink joins the Russell indexes. The noise and the signal are runnin

OKX launched Exchange OS on May 26, 2026, introducing a venue-based builder model that challenges Hyperliquid's frontend-first approach. Builders can now deploy full trading venues — spot, perps, outc

Hoffman's reply cuts to the heart of the issuer-consent debate that stalled the SEC's innovation exemption last week: the Americus Trust precedents already solved this problem four decades ago.

Socket Research uncovered TrapDoor on May 24, 2026 — 36 malicious packages across three registries that steal crypto wallets and cloud credentials, and embed hidden AI-config instructions to automate

X pushed a substantive May 15 update to its open-source algorithm repo, shipping a runnable Phoenix model and Grox content pipeline. Here's what DeFi builders need to know.

Phantom wallet earned $20M in builder code fees routing $37B in perps volume on Hyperliquid since July 2025. Here's what the milestone reveals about the permissionless distribution economy.

Schwab Crypto launches in phased rollout, giving ~39 million brokerage account holders direct access to BTC and ETH at 0.75% per trade — a major TradFi inflection point.

Grayscale's S-3 filing to convert its Zcash Trust into the first US spot privacy coin ETF is still pending at the SEC, but ZEC has already surged more than 110% in 30 days on institutional accumulatio

Justin Sun filed a federal fraud lawsuit against WLFI on April 21, alleging frozen tokens, a hidden blacklist, and extortion. Seven days later, Forbes published a direct attack on Eric Trump's Bitcoin

A gunman charged the security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on April 25, 2026, forcing Trump's evacuation. Earlier the same day, Trump hosted top TRUMP memecoin holders at Mar-a

Eight days after North Korea's Lazarus Group drained $292M from KelpDAO's rsETH bridge, a multi-protocol recovery coalition has recovered 73,700 ETH — but an 89,500 ETH gap remains. Here's the full pi