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Polygon has posted higher daily transaction fees than Ethereum over the past three days, with an analyst pointing to robust user activity on prediction market Polymarket.  According to the latest data from Token Terminal, Polygon raked in $407,100 worth of transaction fees on Friday, compared to Ethereum’s $211,700, with the data indicating this is the first time Polygon has ever flipped Ethereum in daily transaction fees.  Average daily fees over the past 30 days on Ethereum and Polygon. Source: Token Terminal The gap has since narrowed, with daily transaction fees on Polygon at $303,000 on Saturday, while Ethereum saw about $285,000. Polygon…

Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund, Mubadala Investment Company, disclosed a significant increase in its position in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), reporting ownership of 12.7 million shares valued at approximately $630.6 million as of December 31.  This represents a 46% rise from the 8.7 million IBIT shares previously reported as of September 30. Mubadala manages a broad global portfolio spanning technology, healthcare, infrastructure, private equity and public markets, with assets under management exceeding USD 330 billion.  The fund’s strategy aims to generate sustainable returns for the Government of Abu Dhabi and support economic diversification beyond oil. Also in Q4 2025,…

A recent conversation between Bloomberg’s Mike McGlone and bitcoin (BTC ($67,859.00 · Live)) advocate Lawrence Lepard on Scott Melker’s show devolved into expletives and a ragequit. On one side, a BTC price forecast of $10k. On the other side, a BTC forecast of $140k to over $1 million. The shouting match is a case study in how polarized beliefs about the value of BTC have become. On one side of the argument, McGlone forecasted a BTC drop to $10,000 and laughed at Lepard’s buy-and-hold investment strategy. “You’re dollar cost averaging in an asset that has an unlimited supply, that’s done,…

Crypto venture capital firm Dragonfly Capital has closed its fourth fund, raising $650 million to invest in what it sees as the next phase of blockchain companies. The new vehicle is Dragonfly’s fourth fund, according to an X post by fund general partner Rob Hadick. Fortune reported that rather than chasing consumer apps, the firm hinted that it is targeting more traditional financial products built on blockchain rails, including credit card-like services and money market-style funds, as well as tokens tied to real-world assets such as stocks and private credit.The shift reflects a broader pivot in crypto toward financial infrastructure and…

BitMine stock price could be on the verge of a strong bullish breakout in the coming weeks or months if Tom Lee’s Ethereum prediction works out. Summary BitMine stock price formed a falling wedge pattern on the daily chart. Tom Lee predicts that the Ethereum price will have a V-shaped recovery. Ethereum has some of the best fundamentals in the crypto industry. BMNR stock was trading at the crucial support level at $20, inside a range it has been stuck at in the past few days. It remains well below the all-time high of $160. Tom Lee, the company’s Chairman,…

Dogecoin (DOGE) is currently testing investor confidence as the memecoin hovers near a key psychological level. After weeks of sideways trading, the DOGE price has slipped roughly 3% over the past 24 hours, leaving traders focused on whether support around $0.098 can hold or open the door to deeper losses. Related Reading The token is currently trading around the $0.099 mark, a level that has repeatedly acted as both support and resistance throughout February. While the broader crypto market remains cautious, the DOGE price behavior suggests a market caught between weakening momentum and attempts to establish a short-term base. DOGE’s…

On some Ethereum L2s, bots now burn over half the gas just searching for MEV, and they don’t pay proportionally for it. That’s a scaling and market-fairness problem rooted in market structure.The privacy conversation in crypto has finally escaped the “anonymous money” framing that dominated the last cycle. In early 2026, the urgency is economic and rooted in immediate financial realities.The industry faces a structural problem: on-chain transparency generates extractable value at massive scale, and that extraction has grown into a scaling bottleneck rather than remaining a purely philosophical concern.Flashbots has documented how MEV-related “search spam” can consume more than…

Abu Dhabi-based Al Warda Investments continued to expand its exposure to bitcoin through BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) in the fourth quarter of 2025, extending a strategy shift that began earlier in the year. In a filing released today, Al Warda reported owning 8,218,712 shares of IBIT as of Dec. 31, up from 7,963,393 shares at the end of the third quarter. The increase follows a sharp Q3 buildup, when the firm more than tripled its stake and raised its bitcoin ETF exposure to $517.6 million. Al Warda operates under the Abu Dhabi Investment Council (ADIC), part of Mubadala Investment…

Starknet developer StarkWare has integrated EY’s Nightfall privacy protocol to let institutions run private payments and decentralized finance (DeFi) activity on public Ethereum-aligned rails, targeting banks and corporates that need confidentiality without giving up auditability. In a Tuesday release shared with Cointelegraph, StarkWare positioned the move as a way for enterprises to use a shared, open layer-2 rather than closed, bank-only networks, while working with a Big Four firm that already audits many of the organizations it wants to onboard.The integration brings Nightfall, an open-source zero-knowledge (ZK) privacy layer built by EY, that lets transactions be verified without revealing underlying data,…

Starknet developer StarkWare has integrated EY’s Nightfall privacy protocol to let institutions run private payments and decentralized finance (DeFi) activity on public Ethereum-aligned rails, targeting banks and corporates that need confidentiality without giving up auditability. In a Tuesday release shared with Cointelegraph, StarkWare positioned the move as a way for enterprises to use a shared, open layer-2 rather than closed, bank-only networks, while working with a Big Four firm that already audits many of the organizations it wants to onboard.The integration brings Nightfall, an open-source zero-knowledge (ZK) privacy layer built by EY, that lets transactions be verified without revealing underlying data,…