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Solana onchain governance launch: a decentralization test for SOL Solana has launched onchain governance with stake weighted validator voting. Dry phrase, real consequences. The Solana Foundation announced the change Wednesday, giving validators a formal way to propose and vote on protoc ...

Adin Ross's 9,990x Rainbet win raises crypto casino regulation risks Adin Ross hit a 9,990x max win on a Rainbet slot during a World Cup stream and cashed out $199,800. Big number. Big clip. I’ll be honest: the spin itself is the least interesting part. The real issue is the way crypto c ...

Sui and Paga Partnership Points to a Bigger RWA Bet in African Markets Sui Foundation and Paga are working together to test tokenized real-world assets, or RWAs, along with blockchain-based financial tools in African markets. ...

XRPL Batch Amendment Returns to Repo Ahead of Validator Vote The XRP Ledger developer community has put the "Batch" amendment back in the core repository, and it is now waiting on validator voting. That part matters. My take: this is the kind of boring infrastructure news that usually g ...

Bitcoin is NOT Changed by Proof Of Node You might have heard about BIP-110; here’s why this fork is not just bad for Bitcoin, but it is built on a misunderstanding of what a Bitcoin ...

Ripple's 300M XRP unlock tests market appetite while macro pressure builds Ripple released 300 million $XRP from its usual 1 billion token monthly unlock and put the rest back into escrow. My take: that matters, but not because Ripple deserves a medal for restraint. It shows the company ...

SEC's "novel ETF" inquiry points to a tighter crypto rulebook The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is asking for public comment on "Novel ETFs," according to SEC statements. For crypto, that is not a side note. Some products in the review sit close to prediction markets and digit ...

Coinmetro Reorganization: Regulatory Pressure and Prime Trust Fallout Coinmetro, a cryptocurrency exchange based in Estonia, has filed for reorganization in an Estonian court. The company blamed an "extraordinary situation caused by a failure of one of our financial service providers." T ...

Phantom hires Ventuals founders after Hyperliquid perps venue shuts down Phantom, the largest Solana wallet by market share, has hired Ventuals co-founders Alvin Hsia and Emily Hsia, plus engineer Aris Samad, just weeks after their Hyperliquid-based pre-IPO perpetuals venue shut down. I ...

Gibraltar clears Bullish to offer tokenized securities Bullish has approval from the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission to offer tokenized securities. That matters, but not in the usual "crypto license changes everything" way. Most do not. My take: this is narrower, and therefore mo ...