Infrastructure
Infrastructure

Bitcoin surges above $68,000, liquidating $1.4 billion shorts as Treasury buybacks boost risk appetite

BTC rose about 6% while ether, solana and crypto stocks climbed after the Treasury doubled the size of its bond buybacks. Read Full Story at…
Infrastructure

HSBC and Standard Chartered Complete First Live Transaction on Swift Blockchain Ledger

Swift’s ledger matched and netted obligations recorded on the banks’ separate platforms, but final settlement still ran through existing systems. Read Full Story at Thedefiant.io…
DeFi

Maya Protocol Exploit Drains $1.7 Million From Shared Liquidity

Founder Aaluxx said he would ‘work to fix and recover in full,’ while routing service LeoDex reported that Maya had activated a global halt. Read…
AI

How Render Network Has Evolved and What AI Advancements Could Mean for Its Next Phase

Render Network at its core pays anyone with an idle GPU to help render anything from Hollywood films to NASA visuals. Trevor Harries-Jones, a director…
Infrastructure

China triples digital yuan bank roster year-to-date as eight more banks join network

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) added 20 new operators this year across two rounds of expansions, including eight additions this week. Read Full Story…
Infrastructure

Winklevoss-Backed Cypherpunk Launches 'World's Largest' Zcash Mining Fleet

The Nasdaq-listed privacy firm launched Cypherpunk Mining through a $33.33 million equity deal with Winklevoss Capital, adding roughly 18% of the Zcash network’s hashrate to…
AI

Arthur Hayes takes CEO role at Flop Labs ahead of Q4 airdrop

Hayes revealed his new role as Flop Labs CEO and teased a “massive airdrop” from the AI inference protocol in the fourth quarter of 2026.…
DeFi

This Solana treasury company may sell SOL as a DeFi loan ties up more than half its treasury

Even after its estimated C$22 million unencumbered crypto, roughly C$12.2 million of the illustrative gap remains. The post This Solana treasury company may sell SOL…
Infrastructure

Aligned Details ALIGN Airdrop 20 Months Later

The ZK infrastructure firm set unlock schedules and claiming networks for 8.74% of supply. It has not dated the token launch, and the site it…
Infrastructure

Cash App Users Can Now Buy Ether, Solana, XRP and More Through MoonPay Checkout

Block is letting a third party sell the tokens it has never listed, and Cash App balances can now fund outside wallets including MetaMask and…