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Zcash’s Standout Feature: Financial Privacy! According to Grayscale Research Head Zach Pandl, one of Zcash’s most important differentiators is its technology focused on financial privacy. Pandl notes that in an environment where digital transactions can be analyzed more frequently, the demand for financial privacy may increase over time. Pandl had previously highlighted the differences in privacy approaches between Bitcoin and Zcash in his assessments. He recalled that he had stated in those assessments that Bitcoin lacked a privacy layer and that Zcash offered a different design approach in this area. Similar Situations Have Been Seen in the Past! Pandl also…

Still, infrastructure decisions like this matter because cross-chain security is one of crypto’s most sensitive areas. TL;DR Nethermind has ceased its LayerZero DVN role. The firm is moving cross-chain node operations to Chainlink CCIP. The move reflects one provider’s infrastructure choice, not a full market-wide replacement of LayerZero. Why Nethermind’s Move Matters Nethermind is not a random validator. It is a well-known Ethereum engineering firm with experience across client development, infrastructure, research, and protocol operations. When a firm like that changes its cross-chain infrastructure alignment, the market pays attention. Cross-chain systems depend heavily on trust assumptions. Users and developers need…

Bitcoin is up about 7% in September after gaining 25% in August. Since 2013, every previous positive August has been followed by a negative September. With two calendar days remaining, a positive close would break that pattern and give bitcoin three consecutive monthly gains, from July through September. It would also leave the third quarter up more than 40%, its first positive quarter since Q3 2025. The fourth quarter has historically been bitcoin’s strongest, with CoinGlass data putting its average gain at roughly 77%. Bitcoin is trading at $84,000, but the macro backdrop is volatile. Bond yields are rising globally,…

Gas matters most to small positions Across the return study’s eight sampled Ethereum v3 pools, 49% of 71,166 closed regular positions beat holding before gas. After transaction costs, that share fell to 34%. The effect was particularly sharp below $1,000. A transaction cost measured in cents can consume a narrow advantage over leaving the original tokens in a wallet. Bigger deposits spread that cost over more capital, which helps explain why the before-and-after gap varies so much by position size. Bitquery’s published size breakdown shows the pattern: Each rounded percentage describes how often a closed regular position beat the holding…

$ENA traded up 22% over seven days and 54% over 30 days, and down 3.3% over 24 hours, according to CoinGecko. Its market value is about $2.5 billion, ranking 43rd. The 23% Problem Kendrick’s argument runs through a ratio. If $USDe reaches $40 billion and $ENA’s price stays where it is, annual buybacks would equal roughly 23% of the token’s circulating market value. The bank calls that far too high to be sustained, and concludes the price rises until the buyback share settles at a defensible level. The comparison is Uniswap, where the fee switch activated in December 2025. Annualized…

$BTC price steadies as bond yields come off multidecade highs Data from TradingView showed $BTC/USD trading in a narrow intraday range below $84,300. $BTC/USD one-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView The pair saw pressure on Monday as risk assets fell on uncertainty over the US-Iran war and associated global oil supplies, while bond yields spiked. The US 30-year yield reached 5.58%, its highest since June 2002, before easing to 5.55% at the time of writing. The 10-year yield hit 5.26%, a level last seen in June 2007. US 30-year bond yield one-month chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView “Bitcoin’s recent technical strength faces potential pressure…

Lido Finance has launched its Fallback Exits feature, aimed at providing lenders with reliable access to liquidity during market turbulence. As outlined in a recent tweet from Lido, this feature allows lenders to utilize borrower collateral for withdrawal, effectively neutralizing liquidity challenges. This innovative approach could significantly influence lending strategies in the DeFi sector, especially during volatile periods. Key Details Lido Finance has launched Fallback Exits to improve liquidity in lending markets. The feature allows lenders to withdraw using borrower collateral. This mechanism aims to reduce the risk of lenders being stranded during liquidity crises. Lido’s approach focuses on isolated…

Glassnode’s Sept. 23 analysis mapped a large cluster of long-term holder supply at $84,000 to $85,000. That area marks where many longer-term holders acquired coins, making Bitcoin’s ability to reclaim it a measurable response to the week’s news. Glassnode also identified a deeper True Market Mean reference near $77,000 and an overhead mean MVRV reference near $96,700. Glassnode’s Sept. 21 Market Pulse showed net spot taker buying, rising volume and elevated futures leverage, alongside weekly ETF outflows. Fresh spot buying, stronger volume and ETF demand would lend a rebound more weight than futures covering alone. How a missing month could…

What the Data Shows Pendle’s current market activity shows no recorded trading volume, indicating that the integration is still making waves in the community rather than reflecting immediate market transactions. The integration with Morpho could change this as users begin to engage with the new functionalities, potentially driving future trading activity and interest in the Pendle ecosystem. Pendle is a protocol focused on yield optimization through tokenized future cash flows. Its recent integration with Morpho exemplifies the platform’s innovative approach to enhancing DeFi functionality. Morpho is known for its decentralized borrowing and lending solutions that prioritize user experience and yield…

That arrangement needs a record of who owns the benefit and when it has been claimed, so two companies cannot count the same emissions reduction. The application uses Cardano to record where each benefit originated, who received it and when it was claimed, helping prevent it from being counted twice. In the real world, a passenger can enter their departure and destination airports, calculate the corresponding fuel benefit and receive a certificate linking their allocation back to the original fuel certificate. On the other hand, the diesel project would record information at each stage of production, transportation and use, joining…