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Magic Eden wallet will be deprecated, announced the former $NFT marketplace. The wallet will only allow exports from April 1 to allow users to move their private keys or seed phrases. The Magic Eden wallet will be removed from all app stores and will enter export-only mode, not allowing new transactions or other activities. Users must export the keys as soon as possible. The only version is the downloaded wallet, and new Magic Eden wallets cannot be downloaded or recovered. Magic Eden also discontinued its EVM and Bitcoin wallets on the site, as users had to withdraw all funds for…

In a definitive statement that reverberated through the cryptocurrency sector, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin declared a hypothetical 51% attack on the Ethereum network by exchange giant Binance would not succeed. Speaking in an interview reported by Wu Blockchain, Buterin outlined the severe economic consequences, including billions in slashing losses, that would thwart such an attempt. This analysis delves into the technical and economic safeguards of Ethereum’s Proof-of-Stake consensus, providing crucial context for understanding network security in 2025. Ethereum 51% Attack: The Core Technical Deterrent Vitalik Buterin’s assertion rests on the fundamental mechanics of Ethereum’s Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism, known as…

Ella Hough, a Cornell University senior and Bitcoin advocate, published an interactive calculator modeling Strategy’s STRC preferred stock as a retirement alternative to Social Security. Among Ivy League and top-tier schools, Cornell stands out as one of the largest in terms of scale and student body size while maintaining elite academic prestige. This is why Ella Hough’s role there (founding the Bitcoin Club and pioneering a custom degree) carries weight in the Bitcoin community. What If Gen Z Could Swap Social Security for MicroStrategy’s STRC? Hough’s model assumes a 22-year-old earning $100,000 annually redirects their 6.2% employee payroll tax into…

The National Football League (NFL) has reportedly sent letters to Kalshi, Polymarket and other prediction market platforms in an effort to block the companies from offering trades on football events that can be easily manipulated or determined in advance. According to a Monday ESPN report, the letters to the prediction market companies said that the NFL objected to certain types of event contracts offered on the platforms, including those that could be easily manipulated by a single person — including an announcer’s words, player signings, coach firings and bets related to injuries on the field. League executive vice president Jeff…

In a significant move within the ongoing bankruptcy proceedings, entities linked to the collapsed FTX exchange and its sister trading firm Alameda Research transferred a substantial cache of $ZRO tokens to the prominent crypto market maker Wintermute. This transaction, valued at approximately $8.17 million, represents a critical step in the complex process of liquidating assets to repay creditors. The transfer, reported by blockchain analytics firm EmberCN, underscores the active management of the vast digital asset portfolio controlled by the FTX estate. Furthermore, the involved wallet continues to hold a massive position, controlling roughly 10% of $ZRO’s entire circulating supply. This…

KiloEX, a DEX platform that specializes in perpetual futures trading, today announced a strategic partnership with Arbitrum, a Layer-2 network designed to improve speed and decrease transaction costs for DApps (decentralized applications) running on the Ethereum blockchain. The collaboration enabled KiloEX to combine its perpetual DEX platform with Arbitrum’s L2 network, an integration that means that the Layer-2 technology provides KiloEX with more rapid processing executions and cost-effective transactions while ensuring a seamless and secure trading experience. KiloEX is a DEX (decentralized exchange) platform that offers a wide range of perpetual futures trading services to investors, traders, and crypto users.…

Linea has said that it is moving to a new proving architecture built around RISC-V, marking a major shift in how the Ethereum layer-2 project plans to scale, verify, and evolve its technology stack. For years, Linea’s cryptography team took what it describes as the hard road: directly arithmetizing the Ethereum Virtual Machine, or EVM, by manually translating each opcode into mathematical constraints that a prover could validate. That approach helped the project reach mainnet and produced a specification of more than 1,000 pages that has become a reference point for the broader ecosystem. It also gave the team a…

The geopolitical tensions are pressuring economies worldwide. The Philippine peso sank to 60.8 per dollar on Monday. The currency extended a March slide that has erased over 5% of its value. Bloomberg reported that the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said its currency market intervention remains limited “to tempering large swings that could affect inflation rather than defending any specific level.” The Philippines is one of Asia’s most exposed economies to the supply disruption. It imports approximately 98% of its oil from the Gulf. Last week, BeInCrypto reported that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed Executive Order 110, declaring a state…

More than 40 Democrats in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives sent a letter to a federal regulator and to ethics officials to ask them to warn government officials that insider trading in derivatives is illegal and that bets they make on prediction markets firms like Polymarket and Kalshi qualify under that category. The ranking Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee (Senator Elizabeth Warren) and Senate Agriculture Committee (Cory Booker) joined dozens of their colleagues in asking Chairman Mike Selig, chief of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the leaders of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics to “circulate…

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is preparing to enter the prediction market. According to recent news, Binance Wallet has announced the launch of its prediction market service. With this move, Binance is testing an in-app prediction market feature and joining the growing list of cryptocurrency exchanges venturing into this new sector. Binance Wallet announced in an official statement that it will be sourcing features from third-party providers and has partnered with Predict.fun, a protocol running on the $BNB Smart Chain, to integrate prediction markets into Binance Wallet. Accordingly, a prediction market will be launched with Predict.fun acting as the…