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$ETH is trading at $2,055, down 58% from its August 2025 all-time high of $4,953, and sitting at a level that has become one of crypto’s most uncomfortable recurring storylines. Trader Ash Crypto and others captured the mood on X with a simple list: every time $ETH has touched $2,000 since April 2021. Twelve entries spanning five years, ending with April 2026. “Dear Vitalik, Please do something,” he wrote. The frustration behind those words is widely shared. The Foundation Just Made Its Biggest Staking Move Ever According to Arkham Intelligence, the Ethereum Foundation staked an additional $46.64 million worth of…

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EDX Markets, the crypto exchange backed by Citadel Securities, has applied to become a national trust bank, according to a filing made public Wednesday and first reported by Bloomberg. If approved by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the charter would let EDX add custody, asset management, and principal trading services while continuing to match customer orders. The move lands as more crypto firms race for federal trust bank status under a more receptive US policy backdrop. Bloomberg reported in early March that Zero Hash had also applied for a national trust bank charter, while the OCC said…

Pieverse has deepened its push into conversational Web3 by integrating Mantle’s AI Agent Skills into Purr-Fect Claw, a move that brings Mantle ecosystem workflows directly into messaging apps such as Line, Kakao, and WhatsApp. The update is designed to let users interact with Mantle-native features through a chat-based agent instead of switching between dashboards, wallets, and documentation. Mantle describes itself as a liquidity-focused on-chain ecosystem built around Mantle Network, while Pieverse positions Purr-Fect Claw as a Web3-native AI agent layer that runs inside everyday chat apps. The integration lands at a time when both projects are leaning hard into the…

Ethereum layer-2 networks need “responsive pricing” to scale to billions of users and reduce the fee swings that still accompany congestion, Offchain Labs co-founder Edward Felten said during a keynote at EthCC 2026. Ethereum’s EIP-1559 upgrade launched in August 2021, as part of the London hard fork. It reformed the Ethereum fee market by modifying the gas fee limit and introduced a feature that burns part of the transaction fees, removing them permanently from circulation. Felten said gas-price swings are still the main mechanism for protecting networks from being overrun during periods of heavy demand, even though that produces the…

In the past, crypto regulation in the U.S. has been badly fractured. Not only did federal agencies fail to collaborate — they outright contradicted and cajoled each other in a turf war to control our nascent industry. But recent signals from regulators suggest movement. Earlier this month, the SEC and the CFTC released a Memorandum of Understanding to address past missteps and improve coordination for greater regulatory clarity. And even more importantly, the two agencies issued joint guidance last week on how securities and commodities laws apply to crypto assets. This is outstanding progress, and a helpful step towards bringing…

A crypto April Fool’s bit from protocol firm Liquity, which claimed it was being bought by stablecoin giant Circle, has led to allegations of “market manipulation” after it pumped the price of its in-house token. Liquity announced on April 1 that it was acquired by Circle in a deal that would allow Circle to offer users “a non-freezable stablecoin and directly distribute yield under the Clarity Act.” The joke pokes fun at Circle’s ability to freeze tokens and the fact that the Clarity Act, in its current form, seeks to ban yield on stablecoins. BREAKING: Circle has acquired Liquity.This acquisition…

Naoris Protocol debuted its quantum-resistant blockchain Thursday, which it says is designed to stay secure even against future powerful quantum computers that could break modern day cryptography. “Mainnet represents the transition from proof-of-concept to production infrastructure. The network has already validated over 100 million transactions using post-quantum cryptography. That is not a roadmap promise; it is measured, operational capacity,” Nathaniel Szerezla, chief growth officer of Naoris Protocol, said. The debut comes as legacy chains Bitcoin and Ethereum confront the threat of a “quantum apocalypse.” Known as Q-Day, this is the point when future quantum computers could crack the encryption securing…

Arkham Intelligence, a blockchain analytics platform, has revealed the biggest individual holder of Ethereum ($ETH). Contrary to popular claims, new data from Arkham shows that Vitalik Buterin is not the largest individual $ETH holder. Biggest Ethereum holder in 2026 Arkham used its platform to scan blockchain data, label entities and rank who controls the largest amounts of $ETH in 2026. The platform shared the results of its research in a new article. Currently, the ETH2 Beacon Deposit Contract holds the most $ETH of any wallet address, with over 82 million $ETH, worth about $169 billion. Who owns the most Ethereum…

Payy raised $6m led by FirstMark to build a zero-knowledge L2 and wallet that make $USDC payments private by default, targeting enterprise stablecoin flows that avoid fully transparent chains. Summary Payy, a New York-based stablecoin startup, closed a $6 million seed round led by FirstMark Capital in December 2025, bringing its total funding to $8 million. The company is building a privacy-focused payments network using zero-knowledge proofs, arguing that public blockchain transparency is a fundamental blocker to enterprise stablecoin adoption. Payy already has 100,000+ users across 120 countries and processes around $130 million in annualized transaction volume, with a mainnet…