The Foundation wants $16M in stablecoins, 1,740 ETH and 230M ARB for another year of operations. As a first vote opens, delegates and analysts say the request outpaces what the network earns and lacks performance milestones.

The Layer 1 blockchain blamed two stoppages in as many days on its 1.72 upgrade and said validators have now deployed a permanent fix. SUI slid about 15% in the past seven days.

The agency approved Kalshi's BTCPERP contract, the first bitcoin perpetual on a registered U.S. exchange, and in a separate action cleared Coinbase to route customers to its offshore Deribit affiliate. Together the moves open an onshore path for a product long pushed abroad and raise the competitive stakes for dominant venues such as Hyperliquid.

The founder of the company that owns the New York Stock Exchange praised the small decentralized exchange and its SpaceX pre-IPO market, even as ICE presses regulators over how to police perpetual futures.

The Coinbase-incubated layer-2 network activated multiproofs on mainnet, combining TEE and ZK proof systems to move closer to full decentralization while cutting empty blocks by 99%.

The payments-focused blockchain Tempo has settled 3.9M transactions across 177K addresses since mainnet launch in March, with stablecoin supply exceeding $25M and full Dune Analytics integration live.

Nearly $934 million in crypto positions liquidated across 167,400 trader accounts, with Bitcoin and Ethereum taking the heaviest losses amid market volatility.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin highlighted Interfold, a privacy protocol combining zero-knowledge proofs, fully homomorphic encryption, and threshold encryption for secure on-chain voting and auctions.

Block's payments app, home to 59 million monthly active users, now supports sending and receiving USDC across four blockchain networks with no wallet setup required, even as Jack Dorsey admits he doesn't like it.

The smart contract security firm distanced itself from Manuel Aráoz's warning that AI coding agents have made DeFi impossible to defend, calling the threat real but manageable.