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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Mastercard is taking a major step toward simplifying how everyday users interact with digital assets by leveraging the Ethereum and Polygon network. Related Reading: Hoskinson Vs. Cardano Foundation: From Berlin Parties To ‘Useful Idiots’ Through a new collaboration with Polygon Labs and payments infrastructure firm Mercuryo, the global payments giant is rolling out email-style wallet aliases designed to make crypto transfers feel as intuitive as sending a message online. The upgrade expands Mastercard’s Crypto Credential program to self-custody wallets, replacing long, technical wallet addresses with human-readable IDs.…

The crypto ecosystem has made strides in decentralizing blockchains, but the recent Cloudflare incident showed that true resilience requires decentralizing the frontend and storage layers as well, blockchain infrastructure platforms argue. Decentralizing blockchains through consensus, a robust set of validators, and smart contracts is essential, but it represents only one side of the equation,” an EthStorage spokesperson explained to Cointelegraph on Wednesday“True resilience requires rethinking the whole stack — not just the blockchain layer,” they said, highlighting that Remote Procedure Call, Domain Name System, API, indexing and storage should also be decentralized.This kind of “end-to-end decentralization” ensures that protocols cannot…

Brazilian crypto holders are urged to be on the lookout for a sophisticated hacking campaign that includes a hijacking worm and banking trojan shared via WhatsApp messages. According to a new report from Trustwave’s cybersecurity research team SpiderLabs, the banking trojan, known as “Eternidade Stealer” is being pushed via social engineering on messaging application WhatsApp such as “fake government programs, delivery notifications,” messages from friends and fraudulent investment groups. “WhatsApp continues to be one of the most exploited communication channels in Brazil’s cybercrime ecosystem. Over the past two years, threat actors have refined their tactics, using the platform’s immense popularity to distribute…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum has come under heavy selling pressure over the past few days as the broader crypto market entered a deep corrective phase. Yet, despite the volatility and widespread fear, ETH has managed to hold firmly above the key $3,000 level — a zone many analysts consider essential for maintaining the broader bullish structure. Now, as price stabilizes and buyers begin to re-emerge, several market observers are starting to call for a potential recovery, arguing that Ethereum may be nearing the end of its downturn. Adding fuel to…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum has been on a downward trend since hitting a new all-time high in August. However, this decline in price was hastened by the robust market crash on October 10. After the prolonged period of bearish performance and steady pullback, the altcoin is finally experiencing a complete reset of its liquidity. A Clean Slate For Price Action After Ethereum’s Liquidity Reset? As the ongoing market-wide volatility overshadows Ethereum, the leading altcoin and network has now reached a critical junction. Altcoin Vector, an institutional-grade reporter and signal provider…

Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee says Ethereum is nearing a cyclical low, arguing that on-chain fundamentals and relative valuation versus Bitcoin indicate that ETH is “pretty close to bottoming this week.” “Personally, I think that we’re pretty close to bottoming this week,” Lee told CNBC, linking the current drawdown to a broader crypto correction that began after a sharp liquidation event on October 10. Despite that shock, he insisted that Ethereum’s core investment story remains intact. Will Ethereum Bottom This Week? For Lee, that story centers on Ethereum as neutral infrastructure for tokenization and stablecoins, increasingly relevant as Wall Street intensifies…

Ethereum’s privacy paradox When Vitalik Buterin walked on stage at Devcon 2025 to demo Kohaku, he summed up Ethereum’s situation bluntly. The network has strong security and privacy research and solid layer-1 security. But it still hasn’t “leveled up the last mile,” the wallets and apps people actually use.On paper, Ethereum has spent a decade leading the way. Elliptic-curve precompiles in 2018 opened the door to zero-knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Arguments of Knowledge (zk-SNARKs) and privacy tools like Tornado Cash and Railgun. The DAO hack in 2016 pushed the ecosystem toward serious audits, helped drive demand for robust wallets such as…

Ethereum price is at a crossroad, showing only faint signs of stability as traders pull back and market activity thins. Summary Ethereum trades near key support with weakening momentum and falling volumes. Record-high leverage and major Binance inflows raise liquidation risks. Technical indicators show a firm downtrend with key support at $3,000. After the recent decline, Ethereum was trading at $3,079 at press time, showing weakness despite a 1% daily gain. The asset is now 37% below its August all-time high, down roughly 10% over the last week and 24% over the previous month. In the last 24 hours, Ethereum’s…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Over the years, the Ethereum price has usually mirrored Bitcoin, moving up when the latter did and crashing along with it. However, there seems to have been a deviation in the current cycle as Ethereum has lagged behind while the Bitcoin price hit multiple new all-time highs. Nevertheless, expectations remain that ETH will eventually catch up with BTC, with Fundstrat CIO Tom Lee predicting that ETH could replicate the Bitcoin supercycle. Tom Lee On Ethereum Staging A Bitcoin-Like Supercycle Fundstrat has become a prominent name in the crypto…

Crypto exchange Coinbase is working on creating a website for a prediction markets platform, according to a tech researcher who posted screenshots seemingly indicating it will be backed by Kalshi. Jane Manchun Wong, a tech researcher and blogger known for discovering in-development features on Big Tech sites, posted to X on Tuesday that Coinbase is “working on a prediction market,” and shared multiple screenshots apparently showing the platform.In one screenshot, it states that the prediction market is offered by Coinbase Financial Markets, the derivatives arm of Coinbase Global, through the prediction market Kalshi.The other images show a typical prediction market…