
Ethereum is showing signs of a true resurgence—from price momentum to rising stablecoin volumes and corporate adoption. With fundamentals aligning and sentiment shifting, the coming months could be pivotal. We’ll continue tracking the key trends shaping ETH’s evolving role in the crypto economy
Sasha Markevich
As central banks build digital currencies with tight control, they abandon the core innovation of blockchain—permissionless design. While CBDCs favor private ledgers, the U.S. turns to stablecoins running on public rails, balancing decentralization, oversight, and market-driven innovation.
Alex Harutunian
Strategy’s Bitcoin-heavy model echoes the dotcom era: bold bets, speculative inflows, and sky-high valuations. With $30B in unrealized gains and a market cap nearly double its NAV, the company looks less like a business—and more like a leveraged crypto momentum play
Alex Harutunian
QR codes have emerged as a global interface for digital payments, gaining ground from Asia to the U.S. for their simplicity, low cost, and security. As countries move toward unified standards, the shape of money is shifting—from coins and cards to scannable squares.
Alex Harutunian
EigenLayer has launched EigenCloud, a decentralized platform combining off-chain compute, verification, and data availability. Built on its restaking model, EigenCloud enables developers to build trust-minimized apps using services like EigenCompute, EigenVerify, and EigenDA.
Alexander Mardar
Ethereum is showing signs of a true resurgence—from price momentum to rising stablecoin volumes and corporate adoption. With fundamentals aligning and sentiment shifting, the coming months could be pivotal. We’ll continue tracking the key trends shaping ETH’s evolving role in the crypto economy
Sasha MarkevichIMF confirms that El Salvador hasn’t bought new Bitcoin since December 2024. dYdX acquires social trading app Pocket Protector in its first external acquisition. House passes Genius Act, marking major step for crypto regulation. Coinbase stock hits a fresh all‑time high since 2021. Mei Pharma launches $100M Litecoin

The platform brings real-world assets (RWAs) on-chain by offering tokenized U.S. Treasury Bills and a stablecoin with a novel yield distribution design. This gives crypto investors access to low-risk returns from T-Bills without leaving the DeFi ecosystem.

The U.S. Senate has passed the GENIUS Act, a sweeping bill to regulate dollar-backed stablecoins while promoting private-sector leadership in digital finance. Backed by the Trump administration, the bill now heads to the House—marking a pivotal moment in the future of digital dollars.

The spike in activity is primarily attributed to the rapid growth of Avalanche’s Coqnet subnet, which has seen an unusual surge in volume. However, other subnets, including the main Avalanche C-Chain, have also experienced significant increases in activity.

Switzerland will adopt the OECD's Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework in 2026, automatically sharing crypto data with 74 partner countries. While tough on foreign tax evasion, Swiss residents continue to enjoy tax-free capital gains and a clear, favorable crypto policy.

The new safety module significantly enhances the Aave Protocol’s protection against potential shortfall events, representing a major upgrade over the original safety module introduced in 2020.
US Supreme Court denies Coinbase request to block IRS access to user data. Robinhood launches crypto staking for Ethereum and Solana. Germany’s Sparkassen to launch crypto trading for retail clients in summer 2026. REX-Osprey’s staked Solana ETF to start trading Wednesday. Kazakhstan’s National Bank to launch state

Worldcoin’s new Layer 2 network, Worldchain, is built to prioritize real users, with features like free gas and priority blockspace for verified humans. While still early, the network is showing steady growth and has started to attract meaningful onchain activity.

x402 is a new open-source protocol from Coinbase that enables on-chain payments directly over HTTP using the long-unused 402 status code. It allows apps, APIs, and autonomous agents to pay per request without accounts or third-party gateways, aiming to power the machine-payable internet.
There was a malfunction in the Solana blockchain clock. The time on the network is half an hour behind the real time. The problem does not affect the operation of the network, but it can lead to a decrease in the rewards for staking.
Alex Harutunian
StepN is a Web3 lifestyle app with Social-Fi and Game-Fi elements that allows players to earn by walking, jogging or running outdoors with…
Alex Harutunian
The other day Vitalik Buterin and two other researchers, E. Glen Weyl and Puja Ohlhaver, published a huge article about the concept of Decentralized Society — DeSoc — introducing some analogue of “digital karma” or “social rating”, which they call Souls and Soulbound Tokens.
Observers
The South Korean prosecutor’s office calls on all employees of the Terraform Labs cryptocurrency platform to give evidence, while Terra 2.0…
Alex Harutunian
Coinbase became the first crypto company to enter the Fortune 500 list.
Sasha MarkevichAndreas Rahmatian, Professor of commercial law at the University of Glasgow, in his column for Euronews shared an opinion that…
ObserversThe Terra team shared three major changes to the previously published Terra revival and redistribution plan and launched a new network.
Alex HarutunianFinance ministers want to see financial stability and money-laundering standards in effect soon, citing recent market turmoil.
ObserversIMF confirms that El Salvador hasn’t bought new Bitcoin since December 2024. dYdX acquires social trading app Pocket Protector in its first external acquisition. House passes Genius Act, marking major step for crypto regulation. Coinbase stock hits a fresh all‑time high since 2021. Mei Pharma launches $100M Litecoin

The platform brings real-world assets (RWAs) on-chain by offering tokenized U.S. Treasury Bills and a stablecoin with a novel yield distribution design. This gives crypto investors access to low-risk returns from T-Bills without leaving the DeFi ecosystem.

The U.S. Senate has passed the GENIUS Act, a sweeping bill to regulate dollar-backed stablecoins while promoting private-sector leadership in digital finance. Backed by the Trump administration, the bill now heads to the House—marking a pivotal moment in the future of digital dollars.

The spike in activity is primarily attributed to the rapid growth of Avalanche’s Coqnet subnet, which has seen an unusual surge in volume. However, other subnets, including the main Avalanche C-Chain, have also experienced significant increases in activity.

Switzerland will adopt the OECD's Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework in 2026, automatically sharing crypto data with 74 partner countries. While tough on foreign tax evasion, Swiss residents continue to enjoy tax-free capital gains and a clear, favorable crypto policy.

The new safety module significantly enhances the Aave Protocol’s protection against potential shortfall events, representing a major upgrade over the original safety module introduced in 2020.
US Supreme Court denies Coinbase request to block IRS access to user data. Robinhood launches crypto staking for Ethereum and Solana. Germany’s Sparkassen to launch crypto trading for retail clients in summer 2026. REX-Osprey’s staked Solana ETF to start trading Wednesday. Kazakhstan’s National Bank to launch state

Worldcoin’s new Layer 2 network, Worldchain, is built to prioritize real users, with features like free gas and priority blockspace for verified humans. While still early, the network is showing steady growth and has started to attract meaningful onchain activity.

