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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin announced today that the Ethereum Foundation has entered what he described as a period of “mild austerity” as the organization prioritizes long-term sustainability and an aggressive technical roadmap. As part of the shift, Buterin said he has withdrawn 16,384 $ETH, worth approximately $44 million at current prices, from his personal holdings to fund open-source, secure, and verifiable technology projects. The capital will support work across finance, communications, governance, operating systems, secure hardware, and privacy-preserving infrastructure over the coming years, via Buterin’s official X account. Buterin said he will take on a more hands-on role in projects…

The conversation around digital assets at the World Economic Forum has shifted from speculative debate to practical implementation. Global financial leaders framed tokenization and stablecoins as “the name of the game” for 2026. However, the clear consensus emerging from Davos is that the revolution will be institutional, not retail – at least for now. Wholesale Consensus Last year, Davos panels debated the future of crypto. This year, however, the discussion focused squarely on how to deploy blockchain-based infrastructure at scale. The key takeaway for brokers and financial institutions is that the most immediate and tangible progress is happening in wholesale…

The GhostSwap Solana launch marks a major milestone for the GHOST ecosystem and its long term expansion strategy. With Solana support confirmed at launch, GhostSwap positions itself inside one of the fastest growing decentralized finance networks. The move immediately gives GHOST exposure to Solana’s deep liquidity, active developer base, and high transaction throughput. Solana continues to attract DeFi users who value speed, low fees, and seamless onchain experiences. GhostSwap enters this environment with a clear goal. It wants to offer fast, efficient swaps while expanding the real utility of the GHOST token. This launch signals confidence in Solana’s infrastructure and…

In a landmark development for both the cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence sectors, on-chain lending protocol USD.AI has approved a monumental $500 million loan facility for Australian AI infrastructure provider Sharon AI. This groundbreaking transaction, first reported by The Block on November 15, 2024, represents one of the largest blockchain-based financings in AI history and signals a major shift in how technology companies access capital for hardware-intensive operations. USD.AI Loan Revolutionizes AI Infrastructure Financing The $500 million USD.AI loan facility will directly support Sharon AI’s ambitious GPU deployment expansion across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. According to official documentation reviewed by…

Bitcoin miners are struggling to eke out a profit lately amid the asset’s falling price and external complications, including a winter storm that rocked a large chunk of the United States last weekend, impacting the production of top mining firms. A ratio that tracks the relationship between Bitcoin’s price and the profitability of running Bitcoin mining operations has hit a 14-month low, according to data from CryptoQuant. “The miner profit/loss sustainability index is at 21, the lowest since November 2024,” the firm wrote in its latest mining report, released Thursday.  In other words, with Bitcoin’s price falling sharply this…

The Lido Labs Foundation unveiled stVaults on the Ethereum mainnet on Friday. stVaults marks a shift from a single-product model toward shared staking on the protocol through opening its infrastructure to external builders. In simple terms, stVaults let other teams plug into Lido’s staking system instead of building their own from scratch. Until now, developing an Ethereum staking product typically meant setting up validators, integrations and liquidity independently, which can be a costly and complex process. stVaults aim to lower that barrier by letting builders use Lido’s existing plumbing while customizing how staking works for their users. stVaults are isolated…

Railway, a San Francisco-based full-stack cloud platform that has grown to two million developers without marketing, announced Thursday that it landed $100 million in Series B funding to scale its sub-second deployment platform amid rising demand for speed and efficiency in software development. The funding round was led by TQ Ventures and included participation from FPV Ventures, Redpoint, and Unusual Ventures. Prior to this round, the company had raised a total of $24 million, including a $20 million Series A from Redpoint in 2022. Improvements in AI coding are forcing developers to reconsider deployment strategies, as traditional cloud infrastructure struggles…

A Coinone representative has reported that the firm is talking with prominent overseas exchanges and local financial institutions. Shares held by local gaming company Com2uS, which possessed around a 38.42% stake between 2021 and 2022, could also possibly be comprised in any deal. The third-biggest cryptocurrency exchange in South Korea, Coinone, is looking for the sale of shares held by its chairman, as revealed via a report from local news outlet Seoul Economic Daily. The exchange is looking for different options to sell a portion of Chairman and biggest shareholder Cha Myung-hoon’s 53.4% stake, as revealed by the report. The…

Crypto custodian BitGo (BTGO) began trading on the New York Stock Exchange today, opening at $22.43 per share after pricing its IPO at $18 late Wednesday, marking one of the first big-ticket crypto firms to go public this year. The offering valued the company at around $2 billion — well below other recent crypto listings, such as stablecoin issuer Circle (CRCL), which debuted at nearly $7 billion last year. BitGo provides custody and security services for digital assets, primarily catering to institutional clients and has quietly become a key part of the crypto market’s back-end infrastructure. The firm is the…

Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao has ruled out returning to the crypto exchange, despite a pardon from US President Donald Trump opening the door for it to be possible. Zhao told CNBC’s Squawk Box on Sunday that it’s his understanding that the pardon means the former restrictions “are completely lifted,” but shot down any suggestions of going back to Binance. “I haven’t really needed to go back. I didn’t really want to. I thought it was a pretty good way for me to step down, away from Binance after seven years,” he said. “At the time, it was very painful. I…