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Blockchain is being pulled between traditional finance and its decentralized ethos as the industry shifts to serve institutional products.Zac Williamson, CEO of Aztec Labs, said early decentralized governance failures shifted blockchain’s trajectory away from community coordination.“There is a real risk that blockchain just becomes a slightly more efficient settlement layer than Visa or Mastercard,” he told Cointelegraph. “If we lose the social coordination side of this, then the entire point of the technology gets hollowed out.”Williamson entered the blockchain field from an academic background. He left particle physics for software engineering, and in 2017, a contact connected through his brother…

Memecoin launchpad Pump.fun has cashed out more than $436 million in stablecoins since October’s record crypto market crash throttled trading activity and slashed the platform’s monthly revenue.Since Oct. 15, the Solana-based memecoin launchpad transferred $436 million in USDC (USDC) stablecoins to cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, signaling the platform’s operators were cashing out, according to blockchain data platform Lookonchain.Pump.fun began transferring millions in stablecoins to the exchange a week after the record $19 billion October crypto market crash had cut speculative appetite among memecoin investors. Source: LookonchainPump.fun’s monthly revenue fell below $40 million for the first time since July, dropping to $27.3…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has said a new feature rolled out by X revealing an account holder’s country was “risky,” agreeing with crypto users who flagged privacy concerns over the feature. X director of product Nikita Bier announced the feature was rolled out on Saturday, framing it as a way to ensure the integrity of the platform and allow users to verify information.Buterin said on Sunday that some accounts will eventually “find ways to pretend to be from countries that they are not,” but initially thought the change could have positive effects, such as increased visibility into how people from different…

Crypto tokens are becoming increasingly efficient at capturing value, thanks in part to new regulations and upgrades, which could send prices surging in 2026, according to Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan. Hougan said in an X post on Saturday that in the chaos of the current market pullback, big news is getting lost, such as the level of value capture in digital assets trending upward. “Most of today’s tokens were created in a regulatory era where value capture was risky; as a result, they defaulted to vague governance-style design choices,” he said. “Under the new regulatory climate, that’s being unwound. I think…

Semilore Faleti is a cryptocurrency writer specialized in the field of journalism and content creation. While he started out writing on several subjects, Semilore soon found a knack for cracking down on the complexities and intricacies in the intriguing world of blockchains and cryptocurrency. Semilore is drawn to the efficiency of digital assets in terms of storing, and transferring value. He is a staunch advocate for the adoption of cryptocurrency as he believes it can improve the digitalization and transparency of the existing financial systems. In two years of active crypto writing, Semilore has covered multiple aspects of the digital…

The key drivers of Bitcoin’s rally to a peak in October are now what’s causing its price to drop to multimonth lows, with crypto treasury reversals and crypto fund outflows suggesting “actual capital flight” rather than purely negative sentiment, says NYDIG.NYDIG head of research Greg Cipolaro said in a note on Friday that exchange-traded fund (ETF) inflows and digital asset treasury (DAT) demand were key to Bitcoin’s (BTC) last cycle.However, Cipolaro said a major liquidation event in early October saw ETF inflows reverse, treasury premiums collapse and stablecoin supply slip, signalling liquidity leaving the system, in “classic signs,” the loop…

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan believes Ethereum could lead the next crypto rally, pointing to an upgrade catalyst that investors are overlooking. Summary Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says Ethereum could lead next crypto rally with Fusaka upgrade. The December 3 Fusaka upgrade introduces minimum Layer 2 data fee for revenue capture. Hougan sees tokens shifting to value capture with Uniswap proposing fee switch model. The Fusaka upgrade scheduled for December 3 may increase Ethereum’s revenue capture by 5 to 10 times through a minimum Layer 2 data fee. Hougan argues the market is missing a broader trend: major tokens are quickly…

Grayscale has said that Chainlink will be at the center of the next major phase of blockchain adoption, referring to the project as the “critical connective tissue” that links crypto to traditional finance. In a recent research report, the asset manager argued that Chainlink (LINK)’s growing suite of software tools is emerging as essential infrastructure for tokenization, crosschain settlement and the broader shift toward real-world assets on blockchain rails.“A more accurate description of Chainlink today would be modular middleware that lets on-chain applications safely use off-chain data, interact across blockchains, and meet enterprise-grade compliance needs,” Grayscale wrote. The company added…

Ethereum is testing a critical juncture as the golden pocket between $2,600 and $2,800 comes into play. With resistance looming at $2,800, the market now faces a pivotal moment. Can ETH reclaim this level and spark a move toward $3,000, or will sellers push it back below key support? Golden Pocket Breakdown Validates Ethereum’s Downside Target In an Ethereum update, analyst Luca has offered a detailed analysis of the leading altcoin, reflecting on the expert’s previous predictions. As he covered all his PAT updates and his latest YouTube video, once Ethereum broke down below the high-timeframe support range, specifically the…

The Cardano network suffered a temporary chain split on Friday, due to a “malformed” delegation transaction, transactions to delegate ADA (ADA) to a staking pool, which are valid on the protocol level but can cause code malfunctions that affect network functionality.This “malformed” transaction exploited an old code bug in the underlying software library used by the Cardano blockchain, resulting in a network partition due to a disagreement in how nodes processed the transaction, according to an incident report from Cardano ecosystem organization Intersect.Staking pool operators were directed to download the latest version of the node software to fix the issue…