Lido’s 1,500 ETH reserve target could slow stETH withdrawals in a crunch
When stETH holders seek ETH through Lido’s withdrawal queue, the protocol can use ETH in its buffer to finalize their requests. Some of that buffer is also protected for new…
XRP Price Slides 2.9% as $1.50 Reclaim Becomes Critical
XRP lost its $1.50 price pivot today, sliding to $1.47 after a daily decline of about 3%. The break forces a binary question onto the chart: does the selling pressure…
Bitget says Bitcoin withdrawals are open after $387M hack, but ETH and USDT must wait
At about 04:20 UTC Monday, Bitget’s public feed showed BTC and ETH futures trades taking place after the exchange’s Sept. 24 security breach. On Sept. 28, Bitget said it had…
USDT grew on Ethereum through 2024, but smart contract holdings stalled, BIS data show
More USDT was issued without a sustained rise in balances held by smart-contract accounts on Ethereum, according to a Bank for International Settlements working paper published Sept. 15, 2026. On…
Bitcoin dips below $83,000 to start the week as Asia markets sell, extending last week’s retreat
Bitcoin slipped below $83,000 during Monday’s Asia session, moving beneath the lower edge of the $83,000 to $85,000 range reported late last week. BTC price sits around $82,953 at press…
Ethereum’s next scaling leap may come from making everyone stop doing the same work
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says advances in cryptography could turn decentralization from a performance cost into a scaling advantage for the network. In a Sept. 27 essay, Buterin described Ethereum’s…
Pons V2 Exemptions Put Robinhood Chain Memecoins Under Scrutiny
A reported $18.43M pulled from 53 memecoin launches sounds like a network-wide failure. The documented evidence, however, sits almost entirely in token-launch mechanics, wallet funding trails, and anti-sniping exemptions on…
Crypto scammers built an entire fake blockchain to steal over $2 million
Scammers built a counterfeit version of Upbit-backed GIWA blockchain and lured 1,333 wallets into depositing 767 ETH, worth about $2 million, before draining almost all of it. The fake network…
XRP News: Bitget Hacker Moves 54M XRP, Putting Fresh Selling Pressure
The attacker behind Bitget’s $388 million news driver has moved about 54 million stolen XRP out of three of the five wallets that originally held the funds. The redistribution raises…
Big institutional money is split on Bitcoin’s next move as massive market bets shift
Leveraged funds moved 1,599 contracts further net short in standard CME Bitcoin futures during the week to Sept. 22, reversing the prior week’s easing, while asset managers added 411 contracts…