Blockchain

Perp DEX trading falls as volumes decline for five months in a row

Onchain perpetual futures trading weakened for five straight months starting from its October 2025 peak.Profits volume on decentralized exchanges (DEX) fell to $699 billion...

Rwanda warns against Bybit FRW cryptocurrency offer

The National Bank of Rwanda (NBR) has warned the public that crypto payments and trading using local currency remain illegal in the country after...

Aave V3 avoided unrecovered bad debts from 2023 to 2025: study

A Bank of Canada staff document shows Ave V3 recorded zero non-performing loans in 2024, with overcollateralization and automatic liquidations helping prevent lender losses...

Dmail network disables decentralized email service

Decentralized email platform Dmail Network is shutting down after five years of operation due to high infrastructure costs, indigent monetization, failed funding efforts and...

Ethereum L2 needs responsive pricing to scale, says Offchain Labs

Ethereum's Layer 2 networks need "responsive pricing" to scale to billions of users and limit the fee fluctuations that still accompany congestion, Offchain Labs...

Cryptocurrency execution risk is the recent custody risk

Opinion: Ido Sofer, founder and CEO of Sodot.The cryptocurrency industry is usually far ahead of the curve when it comes to pure innovation and...

The impact of tokenization on financial stability is unclear

The International Monetary Fund said tokenization could remove friction and raise financial transparency, but warned the technology could also pose challenges affecting financial stability.“The...

DeFi optimizes for gas, not markets

Opinion: João Garcia, DevReal Leader at Cartesi.Decentralized finance appears as a clear alternative to Wall Street. However, a simplified version of finance has largely...

Naoris launches post-quantum blockchain as quantum risks raise

Naoris Protocol has launched its mainnet, introducing a Layer 1 blockchain designed to exploit post-quantum cryptography for transaction validation and network security. The network...

Caltech discovers that quantum computers need significantly fewer qubits

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology theorize that a functional quantum computer may require far fewer qubits than previously thought, making the first...

S&P tokenizes the treasury index on the Canton Network

S&P Dow Jones Indices has tokenized its iBoxx US Treasuries Index on the Canton Network, making its main fixed income benchmark available as a...

Aave deploys V4 on Ethereum following management approval

Decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform Aave has launched its V4 protocol on Ethereum after a binding onchain governance vote approved its implementation. On Monday,...

Trilitech debuts on the Tezos platform with tokenized goods

Update March 30, 13:20 UTC: This article has been updated to include a section on the broader tokenized goods market.Trilitech, a London-based developer focused...

OKX integrates Aave with the Ethereum L2 X layer

OKX's X Layer is the 21st blockchain to integrate Aave technology, which recently surpassed $1 trillion in cumulative lending volume.Cointelegraph is committed to independent...

Ethereum developers propose “economic zone” to fix L2 fragmentation

Developers from Gnosis and Zisk, with support from the Ethereum Foundation, have proposed a recent framework aimed at unifying Ethereum's fragmented Layer 2 ecosystem...

ICE adds $600 million to Polymarket investment despite scrutiny from U.S. regulators

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the Recent York Stock Exchange (NYSE), said Friday that it has completed a novel $600 million direct...