Key Takeaways Fhenix has bought cryptographic developer Sunscreen to unite frontier Web3 research under one roof.Since 2022, Sunscreen has pushed FHE to become standard, critical infrastructure across Ethereum networks.Fhenix will deploy a quantum-safe privacy layer […]
Most crypto investors still obsess over price charts. But in 2026, a growing share of attention is shifting back to improving the fundamentals of the protocols. Ethereum, Solana and Avalanche are preparing some of their […]
Hyun Song Shin, the governor of the Bank of Korea, praised tokenization for its ability to simplify the issuance and management of government bonds. Shin said during a Wednesday panel discussion at the European Central […]
Key Takeaways Flare scheduled a July 6-13 governance vote to deploy Confidential Compute on its Songbird network.The update adds programmable execution to the XRP Ledger, unlocking DeFi utilities for Ripple assets.Testing on Songbird will gather […]
A sequencer bug was responsible for two outages of the Coinbase layer-2 network Base last week, according to a post-mortem. The Base engineering team said in a Saturday post-mortem that they identified a bug in […]
Cardano wallet SecondFi has identified a recovery path for users affected by Tuesday’s exploit and expects to begin returning assets in about two weeks, following testing and security reviews. According to a Saturday statement by […]
Key Takeaways Base mainnet block production stalled for nearly 2 hours on June 25 after block #47,806,542 caused a consensus failure.Coinbase’s Base team confirmed all funds are safe, with sequencing restored by 17:51 UTC and […]
Japan’s SBI Holdings has signed agreements to acquire full control of crypto exchange Bitbank through a 46.7 billion Japanese yen ($289 million) transaction, advancing a deal first disclosed in May that would create the country’s […]
Consensus guarantees today, focus on two properties: Consistency and Liveness. Consistency requires that all nodes eventually agree on the same set and sequence of transactions, while liveness ensures the system continues to process new transactions. […]
Australia’s future account-to-account (A2A) payment systems may need to adapt if tokenized forms of money gain broader use, including stablecoins and tokenized liabilities, according to a draft vision for the country’s domestic payment rails. The […]