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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin made a rare public admission this week. He said the Ethereum Foundation spent years underestimating the importance of its peer-to-peer or P2P networking layer. For a long time, the focus stayed on cryptoeconomics, block design and consensus systems. Meanwhile, the actual network layer that moves data between nodes received far less attention. Vitalik said he often criticized this imbalance internally. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said he long criticized the Ethereum Foundation’s lack of P2P networking expertise—over-indexing on cryptoeconomics, BFT consensus, and block-layer work while taking the network layer for granted—but that this has now changed. He…

Continuing with recent patterns, even the most modest of crypto gains were met waves of selling on Thursday, sending bitcoin BTC$92,123.27 back to $88,000 after a rally above $93,000 just hours earlier. The move higher had begun on Wednesday evening in the U.S. after Nvidia (NVDA) calmed jittery markets with an earnings beat and rosy outlook. In addition to boosting battered crypto, the NVDA results sent the Nasdaq higher by more than 2%. Stocks are also rapidly reversing their gains, with the Nasdaq now higher by just 0.3%. Even mighty Nvidia is trading flat after being up more than 5%.…

Binance is launching a new perpetual trading contract to expand the variety of products offered on its futures trading platform and enhance the user experience. Binance Futures Launches NIGHTUSDT Perpetual Trading Contract The exchange announced it will list the USDⓈ-margined NIGHTUSDT perpetual contract on December 10, 2025, at 2:00 PM. The new product offers investors leverage of up to 50x, providing a significant option, particularly for professional traders seeking high volatility. The underlying asset of the contract is described as Midnight (NIGHT), the native token of the Midnight Network. The project is defined as a privacy-focused, next-generation L1 (Layer-1) blockchain…

Solana has long been one of the most followed networks in the industry, but 2025 marks its definitive transformation: from “Ethereum killer” to an autonomous, high-performance financial ecosystem now ready for institutional capital markets. With 400ms finality, average fees of $0.001, 12 consecutive months of 100% uptime, and a record of $35.9B in daily DEX volume, Solana now stands as one of the most robust and high-performing platforms in the entire sector. And the next phase of its explosive growth is lending. According to the Solana Lending Markets Report 2025 by Redstone, the network’s money markets are undergoing a structural…

Ethereum price today trades near $3,105, holding inside a tightening triangle that has guided price action since July. The market is sitting right at the apex, and the next move will be decisive. Sellers remain active along the descending trendline, while buyers continue to defend the long-term base near $3,000. Whale Activity And ETF Flows Shift Sentiment The whale who shorted before the October 10th crash is adding more to his $ETH long position.Current position value: $218,187,000Liquidation price: $2,117Right now, he is sitting on $3,377,000 in unrealized profits from Ethereum long position. pic.twitter.com/0Gmzyp2o72 — Ted (@TedPillows) December 9, 2025 A…

In the summer of 2020, Michael Saylor — then-CEO of what was, at the time, called MicroStrategy (MSTR) — made a decision that would upend the financial strategy of his publicly-traded company and ripple across corporate boardrooms for years to come. Initially created as a business intelligence software firm, the company now known as Strategy was sitting on over $500 million in cash. But Saylor saw that money not as a cushion but as a melting block of ice. With inflation ticking up and interest rates near zero, holding dollars seemed riskier than ever. So instead of parking that cash…

Singapore has overtaken the United States to claim the top spot in global cryptocurrency adoption, according to the 2025 World Crypto Rankings report released by crypto exchange Bybit on Wednesday. According to the report compiled with research partner DL Research, Bybit analyzed 79 countries using 28 metrics and 92 data points to assess adoption patterns, regulatory frameworks, and user engagement. Singapore, the United States, and Lithuania are the top three countries in terms of crypto adoption. However, Bybit lauded the Asian city-state’s integration of digital assets into everyday life and institutional infrastructure, surpassing those of the latter countries. Vietnam and…

Today KYD Labs, a Solana-based ticket sourcing platform, announced the launch of TIX — a DeFi lending layer built for live event financing. TIX will be integrated with KYD Labs, bringing a verifiable financing and settlement layer to its existing infrastructure. KYD is DeFi’s largest ticket transfer platform, with more than $8 million in ticket sales, and $2 million in pre-existing financing across more than 300,000 tickets, according to the press release. TIX looks to solve venues’ up front cost demand, and says it turns tickets into tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) “that replace opaque, ad-hoc loan agreements to fundamentally re-architect…

ETH rallied above $3,300 after a mostly positive day for the crypto market. The token kept seeing inflows from whales, as well as another big purchase from Bitmine. ETH continues to see interest from large-scale players, including whales, in both spot and derivative markets. ETH rallied late on Tuesday, after a short squeeze liquidated positions above $3,300. | Source: Coingecko ETH recovered above $3,200 after a short squeeze, following a day of rebuilding short liquidity. The token continued its expansion to $3,342.21. The last price move caused $36.3M in long liquidations for the past 24 hours, of which close to…

On November 3, Michael Burry’s Scion Asset Management disclosed a new regulatory filing, revealing several changes to its portfolio, including one million put options on Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA). The bet against the chipmaker was tied to roughly 1 million NVDA shares, carrying a notional value of about $186 million. With Nvidia jumping around 5% on Thursday, November 20, and adding roughly $205 billion in market value following strong third-quarter results, those who called Burry’s take “dead wrong” might be justified in hindsight. Namely, while the exact strike prices and option deltas were not disclosed, the investor’s position has still potentially…