Category: Web3
Blockchains, DeFi, stablecoins, DAOs and the decentralized internet.
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MetaMask is splitting from Consensys, and the same executive chairs both halves
The wallet with 100 million users gets a standalone company, but the two questions investors actually want answered, a listing and a token, still…
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Circle is paying $400 million in stock for the last mile of a stablecoin payment
Tazapay already runs most of its volume in stablecoins and has built Circle’s payments network since 2025, so the deal buys licences more than…
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Ethereum set itself a December 2029 deadline to become quantum-resistant
The schedule needs a hard fork roughly every seven months for three years, on a live chain holding hundreds of billions of dollars.
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About 4,000 bitcoin left Blockstream’s Liquid sidechain, and the taker called it a favour
Someone minted L-BTC out of a software bug, walked it through the normal exit, and then offered to return most of it once the…
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Coinbase brought crypto derivatives to Canada, for people with $5m to trade
A regulated venue for leveraged crypto futures, open only to institutions and the wealthy, run through a US entity on an exemption.
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Felix Pago raised $200m for stablecoin remittances, and more than half is debt
The equity cheque that sets the company’s value is $87m; the rest is a credit line it has to repay.
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Twenty-one banks are forming one company to issue a dollar stablecoin
The group has a currency, a market and a compliance plan, and everything else, including the company itself, is still subject to formation and…
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An MSCI rule change could force $2.8 billion in Strategy sales by December
MSCI is deciding whether a company that mostly holds bitcoin still counts as an operating business, and a deletion would trigger selling no fund…
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Cronos halted its entire blockchain to contain a $75 million exploit
An attacker pumped a thinly traded token roughly a hundredfold in twenty minutes, borrowed against it, and the network’s response was to stop producing…
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AI-generated bug reports hit Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, and some were real
The flood of machine-written vulnerability reports was mostly noise, and then some of it was not.