The Pulse: Breaking Financial & Crypto News
Real-time updates from the digital asset world. Read news about market movements, new listings, and economic events impacting your portfolio.
Stablecoin cards are quietly becoming one of the clearest signs that crypto payments are moving beyond trading screens and into everyday spending. Retail spending through stablecoin-linked cards has grown roughly 105% to 106% over the past year, according to recent public comments from Rain’s head of strategic partnerships, John Timoney. The figure is still small … Читать далее
A high-stakes legal fight over funds tied to the KelpDAO exploit has taken a new turn after lawyers representing victims of North Korean terrorism reframed the incident as credit fraud rather than simple crypto theft. The legal shift matters because the classification could influence whether roughly 30,766 ETH, worth about $71 million, remains frozen under … Читать далее
Tether is expanding beyond stablecoins and moving further into Bitcoin mining infrastructure with a new class of modular, high-density mining systems designed to improve efficiency, performance, and cost control at scale. The company announced on April 28, 2026, that it is developing custom compute systems in collaboration with Canaan and ACME Swisstech, moving away from … Читать далее
Ethereum has entered one of the most active periods in its history, with the network setting a new record for daily transactions even as ETH continues to trade far below its previous market highs. On-chain data shows that Ethereum processed 3,617,817 transactions on Sunday, April 12, 2026, the highest daily transaction count ever recorded on … Читать далее
The decentralized finance sector is facing one of its biggest stress tests of 2026 after a major exploit involving KelpDAO’s rsETH token sent shockwaves through Aave and the wider crypto lending market. In response, Aave and several leading DeFi protocols have moved quickly to coordinate a recovery effort now known as “DeFi United,” with commitments … Читать далее
Kalshi and Polymarket are pushing deeper into financial trading with plans to launch perpetual futures, a move that could blur the line between prediction markets and the fast-growing world of crypto derivatives. Recent reporting says Kalshi is preparing to roll out crypto perpetual futures in the United States, while Polymarket has publicly teased its own … Читать далее
Ether.fi is making one of the biggest infrastructure bets the Ethereum ecosystem has seen this year, committing about $3 billion worth of ETH to ETHGas over a three-year period. The arrangement is designed to supply validator liquidity for a growing market centered on Ethereum blockspace, an area that many builders, DeFi participants, and institutional traders … Читать далее
Foundry’s latest move into Zcash is bigger than a routine product launch. According to CoinDesk, the company has unveiled Zcashinfo.com, a new block explorer with real-time network and mining data, at roughly the same time its Zcash mining pool reached about 30% of the network’s hashrate. Foundry’s own announcement says the pool hit that level … Читать далее
For years, crypto traders assumed altcoins would always be the natural playground for speculation outside Bitcoin and Ethereum. That assumption is starting to look dated. On Hyperliquid, one of the fastest-growing onchain derivatives venues, oil and precious metals are suddenly doing something that would have sounded strange not long ago: they are pulling more attention … Читать далее
The latest slump in altcoin trading volumes is not just another ugly data point for traders. It is a sign that the market mood has changed in a deeper way. According to ForkLog, citing analysis shared by CryptoQuant contributor Darkfost, daily altcoin turnover on Binance has fallen roughly 80% from prior peaks to about $7.7 … Читать далее
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