The Midnight Foundation, the entity to advance the privacy-enhancing blockchain Midnight network, has collaborated with Project Catalyst, the decentralized innovation engine of Cardano. The collaboration is aimed at accelerating privacy innovation within the Web3 sector. The development attempts to assist developers in creating open-source dApps with real-world applications of the privacy-improving tools of the Midnight
Key Notes The Ethereum Layer-2 solution upgraded capacity after successfully transitioning from op-geth to op-reth client infrastructure. Network execution speed remains the primary scaling constraint requiring resolution before achieving higher throughput targets. Plans include reaching 400-500 Mgas/s by early 2026 through TrieDB implementation delivering significantly faster state retrieval. Base founder Jesse Pollak announced on Nov.
Shares in Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc. dropped almost 12% in after-hours trading on Thursday after its third-quarter earnings missed analyst estimates. The crypto-friendly fintech firm posted an earnings per share of 54 cents for Q3, missing analyst estimates of 63 cents by 14%. Meanwhile, its Q3 revenues of $6.11 billion were up 2.3% year-on-year, but
Nearly half of exchange-traded fund (ETF) investors are planning to buy a crypto ETF, matching those who said they’d buy a bond ETF, according to a report from brokerage giant Schwab Asset Management. In its ETFs and Beyond report released on Thursday, Schwab found that 52% of respondents to its survey were planning to invest
Key Highlights In his speech, Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller stated that stablecoin could increase competition in the world of digital payments He highlighted stablecoin’s nature to enhance the payment system by making financial settlement faster and cheaper After the approval of the GENIUS Act, many payment giants and banking institutions are rushing to integrate
Chris Larsen just broke into the global top‑200 richest people, and it happened fast.The move came after the U.S. government and Wall Street shifted their tone toward crypto. The Securities and Exchange Commission ended its five‑year lawsuit against Ripple back in August, clearing a major weight off the company. Then this Wednesday in San Francisco,
US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell recently stated that the Fed will soon expand its balance sheet again — effectively preparing for a new phase of quantitative easing. The news sent crypto investors into a frenzy in anticipation of a surge in fresh liquidity. At the same time, skeptics warned that it could inflate a
Researchers at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Korea just proved that AI models can develop the digital equivalent to a gambling addiction. A new study put four major language models through a simulated slot machine with a negative expected value and watched them spiral into bankruptcy at alarming rates. When given variable betting
HOOD stock price was in a free fall on Thursday, even after the fintech giant published strong financial results. Summary HOOD shares dropped after the company published strong earnings. The decline was due to the weakness in the stock market. It had formed a double-top and a bearish divergence before earnings. Robinhood shares dropped after