Special thanks to Sacha Yves Saint-Leger & Danny Ryan for review. In this installment, we'll discuss the consensus mechanisms behind eth2. Eth2 has a novel approach to deciding which block is the head of the chain, along with which blocks...

Users online have called the wildfire prediction markets on Polymarket “disgusting” while shaming the company for hosting the bets. Source link...

Circle Internet Group announced on July 27, 2026, that it has acquired more than 680 patent families and nearly 1,000 issued blockchain patents worldwide from IBM in a single transaction, making Circle the largest blockchain patent holder in the United...

Zcash has completed its Ironwood network upgrade, replacing its vulnerable Orchard shielded pool with a formally verified alternative designed to prevent undetectable counterfeiting while beginning the migration of shielded funds into the new pool. Summary Zcash has activated the Ironwood...

Amazon is reportedly looking to revamp its AI strategy, shifting from a wide portfolio of models for text, images, video, and multimodal tasks toward a single frontier model. The ecommerce giant has been one of the main beneficiaries of the...

Heka Funds is one of the largest USDT arbitrage funds. We asked its manager to comment on Tether as well as MicroStrategy and BTC. Source link...

The next Stateless Ethereum research call is coming up in less than a week! The telegram chat now has hundreds of messages to catch up on, and only a small portion of the topics discussed have made it into the...

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins has thrown support behind the long-awaited crypto market structure bill.  Writing on X Tuesday, the chief of Wall Street’s biggest regulator said that he was “committed to supporting Congress in advancing” the bill. ...

American Airlines flights were briefly grounded on Thursday, with a nationwide ground stop preventing them from taking off. The company has now issued a statement attributing the disruption to an IT issue.The ground stop was issued at approximately 6:30 p.m....

Traders were spooked on Wednesday when it was reported that the US government could be set to sell 69,370 Silk Road bitcoins. Source link...