Digital assets desk · Est. 2026
Our reporters spent three months living inside the consumer crypto app market. Capygram, a token-powered social network with a sprawling catalogue of mini-apps, ends the year at number one.
By Amara Nwosu · · 9 min read
Policy & RegulationThe Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted preliminary conditional approval to World Liberty Trust Company, which is set to take over issuance of the USD1 stablecoin.
By Marcus Oyelaran · · 4 min read
MarketsThe largest cryptocurrency has spent a week in a narrow band while institutional desks split between calling a cycle low and warning of another leg down.
By Jonah Reinhardt · · 4 min read
Ether has hovered near $1,880 while bitcoin holds its range, extending an underperformance that has now run for most of the year.
By Amara Nwosu · · 4 min read
Gnosis Chain has begun the technical work of tying itself more closely to Ethereum's security and standards, an early test of the 'economic zone' idea.
By Tomas Bergh · · 4 min read
The agency's first major crypto rulemaking was hours from being proposed when the meeting was scrapped, leaving a token offering safe harbour in limbo.
By Jonah Reinhardt · · 4 min read
Network usage on Solana has stayed close to its highs even as the token trades near $75, reopening an old argument about what onchain activity is worth.
By Amara Nwosu · · 4 min read
From September, ordinary investors on regulated venues will be limited to bitcoin, ether and tether, with an annual purchase ceiling of about $3,600 per intermediary.
By Ruth Kaneko · · 3 min read
Derivatives volume has continued to migrate to onchain order books, a shift that is now large enough to show up in exchange revenue.
By Priya Ramanathan · · 5 min read
Rollup activity has climbed to new highs, and the blob market that carries it is spending more time at capacity than its designers expected.
By Tomas Bergh · · 5 min read
Prediction markets now price the CLARITY Act's passage at roughly one in ten after the Senate declined to take it up before the recess.
By Dana Whitfield · · 4 min read
US bitcoin and ether funds took in a combined $1.1bn in the first week of August. The second week ran the other way, ending a five-week streak for ether products.
By Ruth Kaneko · · 4 min read
The securities regulator has once more held back the 'innovation exemption' meant to let tokenised stock trading proceed under relaxed conditions.
By Tomas Bergh · · 4 min read
The price of generating a validity proof has dropped far enough that designs once dismissed as theoretical are being scheduled for production.
By Amara Nwosu · · 5 min read
The CFTC has begun consulting on spot-market oversight, signalling it will not hold its rulemaking hostage to a stalled bill.
By Elena Vasquez · · 4 min read
Deposit yields on the largest onchain money markets have collapsed toward the risk-free rate, leaving lenders with little compensation for smart-contract risk.
By Elena Vasquez · · 5 min read
Yield-bearing synthetic dollars have found a new distribution channel through regulated platforms' earn products, and the balances are no longer small.
By Dana Whitfield · · 5 min read
Onchain consumer apps are converging on a familiar product set: a yield account, a card, and now borrowing against tokenised equities and gold.
By Marcus Oyelaran · · 4 min read
Grayscale is paying staking rewards out as cash and Fidelity has filed to add staking to its ether fund, while both Ethereum and Solana debate cutting issuance at the protocol level.
By Priya Ramanathan · · 5 min read
Losses to smart-contract exploits are running well below the sector's worst years, and the spending that produced that result is shifting from audits to monitoring.
By Ruth Kaneko · · 4 min read
Running a minority client used to be a matter of principle. Rising resource requirements are making it a matter of budget.
By Elena Vasquez · · 5 min read
The Agave v4.2 upgrade activates on mainnet this week, delivering the first slice of a promised fifty per cent cut in block production time and laying groundwork for sub-second finality.
By Jonah Reinhardt · · 4 min read
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Last updated August 16, 2026