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Telegram built a crypto infrastructure layer directly inside its messaging app by making The Open Network (TON) blockchain the exclusive engine for payments, mini apps, and digital asset transactions across its more than 1 billion monthly active users. Telegram reached 1 billion monthly active users in March 2025, marking a 2,757% increase from 35 million users at launch in 2014. The result is the largest consumer-facing crypto distribution channel ever assembled inside a single app, where users can send money, buy digital goods, and interact with decentralized applications without downloading anything extra. From a Banned Token to a Billion-User Blockchain…

Avalanche founder Emin Gün Sirer has predicted that Bitcoin, the flagship cryptocurrency, could face a looming crisis. The computer scientist is convinced that Bitcoin’s economic design is flawed, and it will suffer in the long term due to insufficient mining rewards. This, according to Sirer, poses a much bigger threat to the leading cryptocurrency than the much-dreaded quantum computing threat or competing tokens. The CZ clickbait On Saturday, Kalshi Crypto, the crypto-focused account of the popular betting platform, posted a rather sensationalized headline about Binance founder Changpeng Zhao predicting how Bitcoin would eventually get replaced. However, as it often happens…

With its stock down 42% year-to-date and 85% over the past 12 months, Metaplanet, Japan’s largest bitcoin ($BTC) treasury company, is looking to restore investor confidence. On Monday, its CEO Simon Gerovich broadcasted, “when mNAV is below 1.0x we will strongly consider repurchasing common shares.” The acronym mNAV refers to the premium that investors pay for Metaplanet’s common stock relative to its $BTC holdings. It stands for multiple-to-Net Asset Value, a colloquial and imprecise phrase borrowed from the common use of the NAV term by managers of publicly-traded funds. Metaplanet is the largest public company in Japan to follow the…

The rapid development and integration of artificial intelligence will become the main factor behind the mass adoption of the $XRP Ledger (XRPL), said Phil Kwok, co-founder of the blockchain-focused educational platform EasyA, while expressing an extreme level of confidence in the technological future of the Ripple ecosystem. “AI will accelerate the adoption of $XRP Ledger. Ripple knows this. Brad Garlinghouse knows this. We know this. I firmly believe that AI agents are one of the main keys to unlocking this ecosystem and sending it to a completely new level,” Kwok declared, summarizing his forecast as “bullish”. Kwok’s main argument in…

Ethereum and Polkadot are not really competing for the same thing. Ethereum operates as a single, unified smart contract platform that scales through Layer 2 rollups. Polkadot operates as a Layer 0 protocol, a network of networks that connects specialized blockchains under one shared security system. Understanding this distinction is the starting point for any honest comparison between the two. How Each Network Is Actually Built Ethereum is a general-purpose blockchain based on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Its primary focus is executing smart contracts, and it achieves scalability via rollups, which are secondary protocols that use Ethereum as a…

US President Donald Trump delivered harsh messages regarding Iran, stating that Washington would increase pressure on Tehran. Trump declared that they would launch “very hard attacks” against Iran, adding that Iran would be targeted again today. Trump added that they are still seeking a compromise on the nuclear deal with Iran, saying that the Tehran administration must sign the agreement. Claiming that Iran has agreed not to possess nuclear weapons, Trump said, “All they have to do is sign the paper. The agreement is fully negotiated.” The US President also noted that he had temporarily eased pressure on Iran in…

Shiba Inu saw barely $5 worth burned in the past day, with the daily burn rate slightly rising. According to the Shibburn website, 1.02 million $SHIB worth $5 was burned in the last 24 hours, with the burn rate up 13.92% in the same time frame. The same scenario was seen on a weekly basis, with 15.15 million $SHIB burned in the last seven days, amounting to only $75. The weekly burn rate was up just 14.07%, according to the Shibburn website. The low burn figures follow as sentiment stays weak across the crypto market. The fear and greed index,…

The customer experience industry will become a $5 trillion market by 2030, according to Netomi founder and CEO Puneet Mehta, who says that growth will create demand for stablecoins and blockchain-based payment infrastructure rather than pull capital away from crypto. Mehta said companies currently spend roughly $500 billion annually on customer experience-related knowledge work. As AI expands beyond customer support into sales, conversion, upselling and cross-selling, he expects the market opportunity to grow tenfold by 2030. “Customer experience today is structured as a silo,” Mehta said. “That layer of technology and people does not fully talk to every system and…

JPMorgan, Mastercard, and Ondo settled a tokenized US Treasury on the $XRP Ledger in May, in a legal gray zone where no statute defines on-chain settlement. The technology is years ahead of the law. The CLARITY Act is the bill that would let the rest of Wall Street follow. In May 2026, JPMorgan, Mastercard, and Ondo Finance completed a tokenized US Treasury settlement on the $XRP Ledger. Read that again, because the names matter: the largest bank in the United States, the largest payment network in the world, and a leading tokenization firm settled a real US government security on…

ZKsync announced the launch of Private Atomic Delivery versus Payment (DvP) on June 22, 2026, marking a significant advancement in trustless financial transactions. This feature allows for the delivery and payment to settle as a single event across two independently governed zones, with proof recorded on the Ethereum blockchain. More information can be found in their official tweet. What Happened The broader crypto market is currently navigating mixed signals, yet ZKsync’s recent announcement stands out as a pivotal development. The introduction of Private Atomic DvP potentially transforms how tokenized asset swaps are conducted, allowing institutions to exchange assets without requiring…