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Crypto infrastructure company Fireblocks has added support for the Canton Network, allowing financial institutions to custody and settle assets on a privacy-enabled blockchain designed for regulated markets. According to Tuesday’s announcement, the integration enables governed settlement of Canton Coin (CC) through Fireblocks’ platform and its New York Department of Financial Services–chartered trust entity. The offering is aimed at banks, custodians and asset managers exploring tokenized securities, deposits and other regulated instruments that require private settlement and strict controls.Financial institutions can custody Canton Coin via Fireblocks and apply its existing enterprise policy controls and workflow automation when settling assets on the Canton Network.…
Opinion by: Joaquin Mendes, chief operating officer of TaikoFor centuries, value moved between hands: gold for grain, livestock for land. No intermediary decided on arbitrary values; the price was determined directly between the parties. No intermediary decided how much a cow was worth, whether the deal was fair or whether someone was qualified to make the trade or not. The exchange was simple: One party had something the other wanted, they agreed on terms, and the transaction was concluded.These exchanges have grown more complex. Banks hold funds, brokers trade assets, and custodians verify ownership. This has erased the relationship between…
Ether’s weekend slide at the turn of February revived a familiar question: is the Ethereum network falling behind newer competitors or struggling to justify its valuation?As ETH plunged by as much as 17% alongside most of crypto, skeptics wondered whether this was a warning sign that the protocol’s dominance may be eroding.Yet inside Ethereum’s ecosystem, the sell-off has not been met with the same alarm. Developers and long-term players largely framed the move as a market-driven correction rather than a verdict on Ethereum’s health.By several measures, network activity remains near peak levels. “Ethereum TVL is actually near all-time highs when…
The viral Reddit-style forum for AI agents, Moltbook, was hacked in “less than three minutes.” Cybersecurity experts at Wiz managed to uncover 35,000 email addresses, thousands of conversations, and 1.5 million authentication tokens. Moltbook is a social network for digital assistants, where autonomous bots post messages, comment, and interact with each other. Recently, the platform gained popularity and attracted attention from notable figures such as Elon Musk and Andrej Karpathy. In February, the religion “Crustafarianism,” dedicated to crustaceans, emerged on the platform. Gal Nagli, head of the security threats department at Wiz, stated that researchers accessed the database due to…
Greetings Verse Community,We are thrilled to bring you another exciting proposal as we continue to shape the future of Bitcoin.com’s Verse Ecosystem.Verse Staking V1In April 2023, we launched the Verse Staking Program which rewarded participants with VERSE for staking their VERSE on Ethereum.Verse Staking V2In 2024, we introduced the next iteration of the program — Stake VERSE, Earn BTC — which rewarded participants with tBTC for staking their VERSE. The Verse Staking Program was also expanded to Polygon. Bitcoin.com attracts a large amount of users who want BTC, due to our domain. By aligning the Verse Ecosystem with more Bitcoin opportunities, we attracted users who are…
Ethereum price slid out of its recent consolidation range near $2,800 on as renewed exchange-trade fund outflows and weak trader positioning weighed on short-term sentiment. Summary Ethereum broke below a key consolidation zone as ETF outflows returned. Derivatives data pointed to traders cutting risk rather than adding leverage. Technical signals show growing downside pressure below key resistance. Ethereum was trading at $2,739 at press time, down 8% over the past 24 hours. The second-largest cryptocurrency is now down 8% over the past week and nearly 10% over the past month, even as 24-hour trading volume jumped 81% to $42.8 billion,…
Legacy retail is colliding with decentralized finance, and the results are getting interesting. The latest headlines surrounding the brand formerly known as Bed Bath & Beyond suggest a definitive pivot. With the intellectual property now under the umbrella of Beyond Inc. (a company already cozy with tZERO and digital securities), the narrative of ‘Bed, Bath & Tokens’ is less of a meme and more of a strategic survival mechanism. The move to explore Real-World Assets (RWAs) and blockchain-based loyalty systems represents a desperate, yet calculated, attempt to modernize a distressed business model through tokenization. Why does this matter? It proves…
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Bitcoin Price Weekly Outlook Last week, we were expecting the critical $84,000 support level to break, and to the bulls’ dismay, it did. Bitcoin had a small bounce after the prior week’s close, then proceeded to dump down through the $84,000 support level all the way down to $75,600 on Saturday, before moving up a little to close the week out at $76,919. Bitcoin dropped 13% last week, so we may see a bounce early this week back to $80,000 or so, but continuation downwards should be expected before too long. Key Support and Resistance Levels Now The bulls are…
Vitalik Buterin said he no longer agrees with his 2017 tweet that downplayed the need for users to personally verify Ethereum end-to-end.This week, he argued the network should treat self-hosted verification as a non-negotiable escape hatch as its architecture gets lighter and more modular.Buterin’s original position grew out of a design debate over whether a blockchain should commit to state on chain or treat state as “implied,” reconstructable only by replaying ordered transactions.Ethereum’s approach, putting a state root in each block header and supporting Merkle-style proofs, lets a user prove a specific balance, contract code, or storage value without re-executing…