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Cardano continues to prepare for its intra-era hard fork to Protocol 11 (van Rossem hard fork), with a critical node release now anticipated. According to a recent update by Intersect, a member-based organization within the Cardano ecosystem, Cardano Node 10.7.0 Target prerelease is expected within a few days. Cardano Node 10.7.0 is one of the two node releases highlighted as necessary for the van Rossem hard fork. https://t.co/Y3YKgFrqki — Intersect (@IntersectMBO) March 19, 2026 The Cardano node 10.6.2 was released in February as the network kicked off preparations for the hard fork. The release of Cardano node 10.7.0 is expected…

Emerging markets accounted for 77% of Binance users in 2026, up from 49% in 2020, as users in those countries increasingly used the exchange for savings, payments and investment access, the exchange said. Binance Research’s latest report frames crypto adoption as a financial-access story rather than a trading story. Binance said 83% of users engaging with two or more products on the platform are based in emerging markets, while users in those markets show savings rates more than twice as high as users in developed markets. About 36% of emerging-market Binance users with balances of at least $10 hold at…

Peter Schiff, well known as a crypto skeptic, believes that Bitcoin has set a negative record of four-year stagnation. According to him, four years and four months after the 2021 peak, the price of $BTC has still failed to show real growth despite large-scale adoption. In his view, this cycle has become the worst in the asset’s history in terms of maintaining value. The main argument is that 52 months have gone nowhere. Why Peter Schiff says Bitcoin’s current cycle is worst yet Schiff emphasizes that Bitcoin first reached $69,000 in November 2021, while today, at the end of March…

Elon Musk said most cryptocurrencies are scams during testimony in his lawsuit against OpenAI, where past plans for an ICO also surfaced, as reported by New York Times journalist Mike Isaac. Elon Musk explaining what cryptocurrency is to the jury: “Some of them have merit, but most of them are scams.” this is responding to early emails where OpenAI discussed holding an ICO, or initial coin offering, in order to fund the company. (back then, ICOs were en vogue…) — rat king 🐀 (@MikeIsaac) April 29, 2026 The tech mogul and vocal Dogecoin fan has confirmed in multiple interviews that…

Although Shiba Inu is currently facing further volatility as its price suddenly returns to the red zone, showing a notable daily decline, its exchange activities suggest that the asset is still in demand. Over the past day, Shiba Inu holders have acquired more tokens than they have sold as data from crypto analytics platform Cryptoquant shows that the Shiba Inu exchange netflow has flipped extremely negative over the last day, sitting at a massive -141,471,460,000 $SHIB. Shiba Inu demand grows When the exchange netflow of an asset is negative, as seen in the case of $SHIB today, it is a…

Binance’s user base has undergone a quiet but dramatic demographic shift. The exchange now counts 77% of its users from emerging markets, up from 49% in 2020. The numbers behind the banking shift 73% of stablecoin savers on Binance are located in emerging markets. In English: nearly three out of four people using the platform to store dollar-denominated value live in countries where the local currency might lose purchasing power faster than you can refresh a price chart. The engagement metrics go deeper. 24% of active users now utilize two or more services on the platform, while 14% use three…

Bitcoin price slid to its lowest level in nearly a month on Friday, just as David Sacks confirmed he is stepping down as President Donald Trump’s “AI and crypto czar,” amplifying anxiety over the policy outlook for digital assets. Bitcoin (BTC) has fallen to $65,720, its weakest print since March 2, before recovering slightly to around $65,804, a daily loss of more than 4% that dragged the wider crypto market lower. According to derivatives tracker CoinGlass, over $500 million in crypto positions were liquidated in the past 24 hours, with nearly 90% of the wipe‑out hitting long traders, a sign…

Robinhood’s (HOOD) nearly 12% drop since its big earnings miss is being waived off by some big investors and Wall Street analysts. The popular trading platform missed its first-quarter earnings and revenue estimates on April 28, mainly due to weaker crypto trading activities. The market punished the stock on the miss, but Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest saw that as an opportunity and bought roughly $39.7 million worth of shares the next day, signaling confidence in the trading platform’s future. Robinhood remains a meaningful position across Ark’s portfolios, accounting for roughly 3% and ranking among the top holdings in all three…

While the crypto market is still digesting the news, an S-4 form has appeared in SEC filings revealing the true scale of Evernote Holdings’ ambitions. As it turns out, this is not just about a Nasdaq listing but about building a full-scale institutional “leviathan” based on $XRP with capital already exceeding $1 billion. How Ripple and Chris Larsen fuel $XRP Treasury, and why SBI paid 30x more than Arrington Of the most interesting, exclusive details the document exposed is a significant difference in terms for the main contributors. Arrington Capital acquired the original SPAC for just $0.33 per share. Meanwhile,…

Coinbase crypto exchange has recently experienced an outage, which resulted in a multi-hour service disruption that affected trading, exchange access and balance updates. CEO Brian Armstrong talked about this incident in a new tweet. On May 7, 2026 at 23:50 UTC, the Coinbase monitoring team detected cascading quote failures from internal services. Customer-facing impacts included spot trading, Prime, International and derivative exchanges. In his tweet, the Coinbase CEO stated that the recent outage was never acceptable. The root cause, according to him, was a room overheating in an AWS data center when multiple chillers failed. He stated that Coinbase designed…