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Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has argued that the network remains financially strong despite its recent decline in the cryptocurrency market rankings. According to him, Cardano’s on-chain treasury continues to generate enough funding to support the ecosystem’s long-term growth. Speaking during an interview on The Starting Block, Hoskinson acknowledged that Cardano’s market cap has fallen to around $6 billion, pushing the cryptocurrency out of the top 10 by market value. Nonetheless, he stressed that the network still has sufficient financial resources to fund more than $100 million in ecosystem development this year. Treasury Generates Funding for Ecosystem Development Hoskinson explained that…

Crypto market maker GSR has issued a warning that many decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are holding a significant portion of their treasuries in their own native tokens, a practice that could amplify financial distress during market downturns. According to a recent report, the average DAO holds roughly 70% of its assets in self-issued tokens, leaving little buffer when prices fall. Understanding the Concentration Risk GSR’s analysis highlights a structural vulnerability: when a DAO’s native token price drops, the value of its treasury holdings declines simultaneously. This often coincides with reduced protocol revenue and lower market activity, creating a negative feedback…

Renowned venture capitalist and Bitcoin advocate Tim Draper recently shared his perspective on the industry’s icons: “I love Elon Musk.. Almost as much as I love Satoshi Nakamoto.” “Musk is Satoshi” Draper’s comparison arrives amidst a backdrop of long-standing, albeit unproven, internet folklore speculating that Elon Musk himself is the true identity behind Satoshi Nakamoto. This theory has gained traction over the years due to several core arguments. Proponents frequently point to Musk’s foundational role in early digital payment systems like PayPal as evidence that he possessed the necessary technical skills to architect the original Bitcoin protocol. Enthusiasts have scrutinized…

The $XRP Ledger has recorded the second-highest inflow of real-world assets over the past six months, as total value exceeds $4 billion. $XRP continues to expand its presence in the tokenized real-world asset (RWA) market as tokenization gains more traction this year. According to data from RWA.xyz, a leading platform that tracks tokenized RWA activity, the network attracted $2.6 billion in new RWA value over the past six months, excluding stablecoins. This gives the $XRP Ledger the second-largest RWA inflow among all blockchain networks during the period. Only $BNB Chain recorded a higher figure, bringing in $3 billion over the…

Ethereum and Solana, two of the largest blockchain networks by market capitalization, are evaluating whether their current token issuance policies remain appropriate for long-term network security and market health, according to Lucas Tcheyan, Vice President at Galaxy Research. Policy Review Underway Tcheyan said both networks are in the early stages of reassessing the rewards paid to validators and stakers, which are designed to secure the network. The discussions focus on whether the pace of new token creation should be slowed, maintained, or increased. These considerations come amid broader market scrutiny of inflationary pressures in crypto assets. A slower issuance rate…

Maelstrom, the family office of BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes, is pushing further into crypto privacy, with two of the four developers it funds through its Bitcoin Grant Program now working full-time on tools that make transactions harder to trace. The fund disclosed the split in its first annual report on the program, which has paid open-source developers in monthly Bitcoin installments under 12-month contracts since October 2024 and caps grant stacking at $400,000 a year. Benalleng and Macgyver handle the privacy work, while Rkrux and Stratospher contribute to Bitcoin Core, the network’s main software. Maelstrom framed the grants as long-term…

AI Agent Payments on $XRP Ledger Gain Enterprise-Grade Trust With Mastercard The $XRP Ledger is advancing its push into enterprise-grade AI payments. According to t54, the company behind the XRPL x402 Facilitator, AI agent payments on XRPL now support Mastercard’s Verifiable Intent (VI) standard, introducing cryptographic authorization and pre-settlement risk checks for autonomous blockchain transactions. The integration enables developers to attach verifiable proof of authorization to AI-initiated payments. Beyond a standard wallet signature, each transaction can now prove who approved it, the spending limits attached to it, and the exact purchase it is authorized to complete. These credentials are processed…

Astarter, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) focused Web3 platform, is pleased to announce its strategic collaboration with SVP Chain, an AI-agent-first sovereign Layer-1 blockchain. The core purpose of this landmark integration is to advance the autonomous AI economy with AI-powered Web3 applications. SVP Chain offers native AI agent identities, 1-second transaction finality, and an on-chain Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) for trading. 🚀 Astarter × @SvpChain 🤝We’re excited to announce our partnership with SVP Chain, the world’s first AI-Agent-First Sovereign Layer-1.With native AI agent identity, 1s finality, on-chain CLOB, EVM compatibility, and agent-to-agent payments, SVP Chain is building powerful… https://t.co/N4E5Sn5kxr —…

Bitcoin’s largest buyers are no longer behaving like a reliable backstop for the largest cryptocurrency. The exchange-traded funds, public-company treasuries, and Bitcoin-linked equities that helped define the market’s institutional era are showing signs of strain, just as the world’s largest digital asset struggles to hold above $60,000, one of its most closely watched price levels. This persistent drawdown has prompted a broader reevaluation of the cryptocurrency’s role in institutional portfolios, raising questions about whether the current environment reflects a temporary profit-taking exercise or a structural retreat from digital assets. Bitcoin ETF demand turns into a headwind The clearest reversal has…

Cardano [$ADA] ranked among the weakest-performing crypto tokens in the market, losing significant ground since its launch. $ADA plunged to around $0.16 at press time, down from an all-time high near $3.10. $ADA slipped 2.14% over the past 24 hours, while trading volume plummeted 23% to $177.3 million. Price action told only part of the story, though. On-chain metrics did little to strengthen $ADA’s recovery case. Why is Cardano’s network activity so weak? $ADA’s on-chain footprint pointed to real weakness in transaction flow. The Cardano network logged just 21,700 transactions over the past day, a steep drop from roughly 57,000…