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In 2021, during the NFT boom, four university students launched a collection of 8,888 digital penguins on Ethereum. In just 19 minutes, the Pudgy Penguins were sold out at 0.03 ETH each. In a few months, the floor price exceeded 2.5 ETH and the project seemed destined to enter the history of PFP. Then came the crisis: roadmaps not followed, accusations of poor management, and the feeling that Pudgy Penguins could become “yet another failed JPEG.” At the beginning of 2022, the community removed the founders. Was it the end? In reality, it was just the beginning. Luca Netz and…

10 years ago, Ethereum launched with a promise to reinvent the internet. Today, it is the engine behind a $75 billion decentralized economy, powering everything from meme coins to multi-billion-dollar institutional finance. What began as a whitepaper by a teenage cryptographer is now the world’s programmable financial backbone. This retrospective traces Ethereum’s defining breakthroughs, crises, and transformations—and asks what the next decade holds for the chain that never sleeps. The Ethereum Genesis: Building a World Computer Ethereum’s story began in 2013, when Vitalik Buterin envisioned a blockchain far more versatile than Bitcoin. Alongside Gavin Wood, Charles Hoskinson, Anthony Di Iorio,…

Crypto companies in the U.K. have almost certainly been under-reporting breaches of financial sanctions since as far back as 2022, the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) said in a Monday report, as the nation imposed more sanctions on Russia. The report, which is a sanctions threat assessment focused entirely on crypto, said most of the non-compliance by U.K. crypto firms was likely to be inadvertent and resulted from exposure to a named, or designated, person. Exposure could be both direct, in which there is a clear link to the person’s wallet address, or indirect, where the crypto’s origin has…

Tim Draper backed the SEC’s Project Crypto, calling it a breakthrough toward an all-bitcoin economy powered by blockchain-based accounting, smart contracts, and tokenized finance. SEC’s Project Crypto May Realize Tim Draper’s Dream of All-Bitcoin Market Systems Venture capitalist Tim Draper praised “Project Crypto” on social media platform X on July 31, shortly after U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul S. Atkins introduced the initiative during remarks in Washington, D.C. Draper, a longtime proponent of decentralized finance, endorsed the SEC’s direction, stating: Project Crypto looks awesome! My hopes to raise a fund all in bitcoin, invest it all in…

JPMorgan and Coinbase are launching a multi-phase integration that brings crypto access and payments directly into the core of U.S. consumer banking. What’s cooking? Summary In July 2025, JPMorgan and Coinbase announced a phased rollout to integrate crypto access, payments, and rewards directly into JPMorgan’s consumer banking ecosystem. The partnership allows Chase users to buy crypto with credit cards, link bank accounts to Coinbase wallets, and convert reward points to USDC. Alongside this, JPMorgan launched a blockchain-based deposit token pilot on Base, targeting faster settlement and programmability for institutional clients. Analysts view the move as part of a deeper shift,…

Solo miners have been defying the odds, successfully claiming full Bitcoin block rewards even as the network hashrate hovers near all-time highs. As of this writing, the Bitcoin (BTC) network’s hashrate is hovering around 902 exahashes per second (EH/s), just below its all-time peak, according to Blockchain.com. The figure shows growing competition and higher difficulty, suggesting that single miners face steep odds to win a block. However, last week, a solo miner defied these odds, securing block 907,283 via the Solo CK pool and earning the full 3.125 BTC reward, worth over $372,000 at the time. The miner also received…

Despite bitcoin (BTC) hitting a new all-time high this weekend of $122,000, the protocol’s blockspace price is at an all-time low, with demand to transact and store data on-chain trending toward a single satoshi or “sat,” worth a paltry 1/100 millionth of one BTC. In fact, transaction fees have persisted at such a low level that some developers and node operators are manually overriding their minimum fee acceptance rate to allow users to bid for less than a single satoshi. Specifically, they want to allow peers to bid less than $0.17 for a standard 140 virtual byte (vByte) Native Segwit…

Imagen Network (IMAGE), a low-cap token built on the Solana blockchain, has unexpectedly emerged as BlackRock’s third-largest crypto holding, according to on-chain portfolio tracking data. Despite its sharp price decline since launch, the asset now sits behind only Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) in BlackRock’s digital asset allocation. At the time of publication, IMAGE is trading at $0.004407, down 8.22% on the day, with a total market capitalization of just over $22 million. Over the past week, the token has plummeted by 45.65%, and since its launch on June 12, it has dropped over 80%. Year-to-date, IMAGE is down 84.56%.…

The legal battle between Ripple and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may finally be approaching a turning point. While rumors are swirling that the SEC might dismiss the case today, experts advised not to jump to conclusions just yet. What’s Happening? Both Ripple and the SEC are currently in a legal holding pattern. The case is being held in abeyance (on pause) by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, while everyone waits to see what the SEC will decide next. The court has asked the SEC to file a status update by August 15, 2025. Until then, nothing…