News Visa and Stripe's Bridge to Expand Stablecoin Cards to 100+ Countries Visa and Bridge will expand their stablecoin-linked card product from 18 countries to over 100 by year-end, accepted at 175M merchant locations.
Article Small Models Could Crack the Private AI Problem Fully homomorphic encryption is years away from frontier scale. But the bar for "good enough" just got lower.
Analysis Building the Agent Economy on Ethereum AI agents won’t scale without crypto rails. Here are the advances to watch.
Analysis The Ethereum L2 Squeeze Amid declining metrics and a Vitalik vibe shift, Ethereum L2s and Alt-EVM L1s are being pushed to shape up or ship out.
Article Autonomy vs. Guardrails: Crypto's Next AI Fight OpenClaw made agents autonomous. Conway wants them self-funding. Now the debate is whether that's innovation or a problem.
Article Offline Protocol 2.0's Blackout-Proof Messaging App Unpacking Offline's latest 2.0 update and the new iteration of its Fernweh messaging app.
Ethereum The Technical Leaps Hardening Ethereum's zkEVM Future Ethereum’s zkEVM, post-quantum security, and client-side proving are converging into a leaner, scalable L1 plan.
Article AI's Safety Net Is Fraying Ethereum's cryptographic guardrails may be our best defense in the face of corporate AI's safety failures.
News Tomasz Stańczak Steps Down as Ethereum Foundation Co-ED Tomasz Stańczak is leaving his Ethereum Foundation co-Executive Director role after a year. Bastian Aue will take over alongside Hsiao-Wei Wang.
News Robinhood Launches Testnet for Arbitrum-Based L2 Blockchain Robinhood launched the public testnet for Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum L2 built on Arbitrum focused on tokenized real-world assets.
News Polymarket Partners With Kaito to Launch Attention Markets Polymarket and Kaito AI are launching prediction markets based on social media mindshare and sentiment data across X, TikTok, and YouTube.
Article Did Prediction Markets Win the Super Bowl? Prediction markets may not have outright dominated the Super Bowl, but data suggests growing pressure on sportsbooks.
Article OpenClaw and the Body of the Agent Economy The organs of an agent economy — payments, reputation, identity — have been built separately for months. OpenClaw may be the body they plug into.
News Rep. Khanna Probes $500M UAE Investment in Trump Crypto Firm The investigation into a secret UAE investment in World Liberty Financial focuses on potential ties to AI chip export policy.
News Incognito Market Founder Sentenced to 30 Years Behind Bars over Crypto Drug Sales Rui-Siang Lin was sentenced to 30 years for operating Incognito Market, a crypto-based dark web marketplace that facilitated $105M in drug sales.
News Nevada Sues Coinbase, Alleging Unlicensed Sports Betting Nevada's gaming regulator filed a civil lawsuit alleging Coinbase's prediction markets constitute unlicensed sports betting under state law.
News 89% of Family Offices Hold No Crypto: J.P. Morgan The bank's 2026 survey of 333 family offices found 89% have no crypto exposure, with only 17% planning to invest going forward.
Analysis Unpacking a Brutal Weekend for ETH, BTC, and Gold What happened to crypto prices this weekend?
Mindshare The Missing Layer in AI-Resolved Prediction Markets AI judges could fix prediction markets, but only if their decisions are reproducible.
Article TheDAO is Back as a $220M Ethereum Security Fund Unclaimed funds from the 2016 DAO hack are being repurposed into a $220M security endowment for the Ethereum ecosystem.
News Coinbase-Backed Fairshake PAC Has $193M Heading into Midterms The pro-crypto super PAC's backers include Coinbase, Ripple, and a16z.
Article MegaETH's Public Mainnet Coming February 9 The L2's mainnet launch will follow a week-long stress test that aims to process 11 billion transactions at a sustained 15–35K TPS.
Article Tether Launches US-Regulated USA₮ Stablecoin Tether launched USA₮, a dollar-backed stablecoin issued through Anchorage Digital Bank and designed for the U.S. market under the GENIUS Act.
Analysis Crypto Finally Got Taken Seriously at Davos At Davos, the global elite’s inner circle gave crypto a real seat at the table.
News Gold Breaks $5K as Tariff Threats and Shutdown Risks Mount Gold's new all-time high extended a rally fueled by U.S. tariff threats, shutdown risks, and central bank buying.
