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The ERC-8004 Trustless Agents standard and x402 payments unlock AI commerce, including discovery, reputation and micropayments for autonomous economic coordination.
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Latest News on Blockchain
Blockchains are the critical infrastructure underlying cryptocurrencies. The common feature of these distributed ledgers is the sequential updating of a cryptographically secure, verifiable transaction record among a network of peers all operating under a certain set of rules enforced through the software itself. This record is owned and operated in common by anyone anywhere.
While research in shared ledger technology goes back decades, the arrival of the Bitcoin blockchain introduced the first distributed ledger technology that was thoroughly decentralized and resistant to censorship, seizure and collusion.
Blockchain technology, in its various manifestations including the Ethereum blockchain and others, is ultimately a global consensus system — i.e., it allows people to coordinate and cooperate around a neutral source of information without trusting each other or a central administrator. The use cases are wide-ranging, from finance and energy trading to supply chain management.
At Cointelegraph, we are chronicling the evolving blockchain industry. Is it revolutionary or overhyped? Or both? Will it become the solution to securing trust in finance and global trade? What will be the rate of blockchain transactions in the coming years?
Stay tuned to find out.
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Initial features will support basic transfers, setting the stage for subsequent upgrades, including privacy features for tokenized real-world assets.
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Larger crypto payments to darknet markets were linked to higher stimulant hospitalizations and deaths in Canadian health data.
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Robinhood plans a mainnet launch later this year as the testnet hosts experimental assets, including stock-style tokens.
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The Ethereum Foundation called 2025 one of its “most productive years,” highlighting two major network upgrades and the gas limit significantly increasing.
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The Base engineering team said the protocol would remain open-source and encouraged developers to continue building unique implementations.
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During a Cointelegraph AMA, USDKG’s advisory leads explained how gold-backed reserves, government oversight, and live DeFi integrations shape a new stablecoin model.
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The French banking group’s digital asset unit deploys EUR CoinVertible on a third public blockchain, alongside Ethereum and Solana.
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The EU regulated blockchain earlier than most major economies. Its sandbox now tests whether dialogue unlocks innovation inside legal fences.
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StarkWare is integrating EY’s Nightfall privacy protocol into Starknet to give institutions private payments and DeFi access on public Ethereum-aligned rails, while preserving auditability.
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Crypto’s future demands pragmatic decentralization. Decentralization thrives on capturing real transaction flow from centralized giants, turning open rails into unbeatable economic models.
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TRM Labs says Monero usage remains above pre-2022 levels as darknet markets shift toward XMR, while unusual node behavior may offer investigators network-level clues.
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Polygon briefly surpassed Ethereum in daily fees as Polymarket activity surged, highlighting shifting user demand toward Layer-2 networks.
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Privacy risks becoming a flattened buzzword despite growing attention. Structural boundaries enable accountability, while complete visibility creates fragility and capture points.
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Binance said an internal review with external counsel found no sanctions violations and that it continues to meet its regulatory obligations under monitoring and oversight.
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