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ETH to BTC: The Chart Analysts Still Watch
Ever since Ethereum broke above $2,500 - nearly doubling from its recent low of $1,400 - I’ve been seeing a wave of commentary on this sharp rally. One common theme stands out: the downtrend on the ETH/USD chart may be broken, but the ETH/BTC chart is still stuck in a bearish pattern. Apparently, Bitcoin is still the benchmark. If ETH is worth 0.02 BTC, that’s considered...
Stablecoins Are the Real Crypto Now
CoinMetrics just published an analysis of the stablecoin sector. According to their data, stablecoins now account for around 70% of all transaction volume on blockchains. Bitcoin, by comparison, makes up only about 10%. Sure, not all Bitcoin is moved on-chain - there's also the Lightning Network. But let’s not forget: not all on-chain volume actually reflects real transfers...
The best stablecoin is the one no one can see
Charles Hoskinson, co-founder of Cardano, announced plans to launch what he calls the world’s first private stablecoin. As he put it: “Maybe people don’t want a stablecoin where every single purchase is permanently tracked by everyone, everywhere.” Sounds great in theory - but in practice, private stablecoins already exist. There’s EURx, a euro-pegged stablecoin issued by PEGx, and USDT...
A critical Ethereum vulnerability - but is it really new?
Cointelegraph reported that Ethereum’s latest update introduced a serious vulnerability: it’s now possible to authorize spending from your wallet using just an off-chain signature. Off-chain signatures are widely used in Web3 for signing messages when logging into sites or dApps. They cost nothing and aren’t recorded on the blockchain - which is why many users sign messages without thinking twice. But...
Why Are There So Many Cryptocurrencies?
The other day I came across a statistic that made my jaw drop: over 1.2 million tokens were created on the Solana blockchain — all within the past month! That’s an absurd number. Why would anyone need so many? Money was invented to serve as a universal medium of exchange. Universal implies shared by all. Ideally — singular. Because what is money...
Coinbase opens weekend futures trading for U.S. customers
It might not sound like a big deal at first. After all, the rest of the world has had 24/7 access to crypto futures for years. But Coinbase is making a point: it's the first U.S. exchange to fully drop the idea of “trading hours” for BTC and ETH futures. From now on, every hour is trading hour. Let that sink in. Until now, the massive American market essentially...
One of the largest Bitcoin miners posted a $533M quarterly loss
MARA Holdings, one of the largest public Bitcoin miners, has reported a $533 million loss for Q1 2025. It’s a paper loss (mostly a write-down of previous gains), but what caught our attention were the operating figures. MARA’s electricity cost to mine a single BTC was $35,728 - based on an energy rate of $0.04 per kWh. And...
GENIUS Act: Blockchain Joins the Fight Against Crime
Surprise inside the GENIUS Act - a U.S. bill aimed at creating a federal framework for regulating payment stablecoins: there's a section titled “Anti-Money Laundering Innovation.” And guess what’s listed as an innovation? Blockchain technology. To me, that’s a tectonic shift. * Until now, governments have accused cryptocurrencies of enabling money laundering. * But here, blockchain - the very...
Meet OP-20: BRC-20 but with Higher Fees
Just a day after it was announced that the next Bitcoin Core release would lift the 80-byte limit for OP_RETURN outputs, we already saw a new use case appear. Someone created a token format reminiscent of BRC-20, but instead of storing the data in an inscription (as the BRC-20 standard does), they embedded it directly into the OP_RETURN output. The...
USDKG: A Gold-Backed Stablecoin from Kyrgyzstan
A new stablecoin is on the way. In Q3 2025, USDKG is expected to launch – a USD-pegged stablecoin backed by gold reserves held by Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Finance. Which raises the question: what’s the point? Backing a stablecoin is necessary to give holders confidence that their tokens can always be redeemed for something of real value: * Liquity USD (LUSD), like the early version of...
