Solana’s Firedancer validator client promises huge speed boosts but faces network limits as developer Douglas Colkitt tests its full potential on Fogo.
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Terry Bollea, better known by his wrestling ring name Hulk Hogan, was pronounced dead in a hospital on Thursday at the age of 71, days after Ozzy Osbourne passed away at 76.
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Embedding human rights into crypto systems is a necessity. Self-custody, privacy-by-default, and censorship-resistant personhood must be core design principles for any technology. The future of digital freedom depends on it.
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Tokenholders of Trump’s World Liberty Financial voted to make their tokens tradable in a landslide vote, which closed on Wednesday.
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The $100M acquisition brings Coin Metrics’ data, indexes and onchain analytics into Talos’s growing platform for institutional investors.
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Location spoofing threatens everything from logistics to cybersecurity. A new blockchain-based approach offers tamper-proof verification without relying on centralized systems.
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Ryan Cohen says GameStop’s $500 million investment in Bitcoin was to act as a “hedge against inflation and global money printing.”
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The NoOnes CEO told Cointelegraph that corporations are increasingly adding Ethereum to their treasuries, drawn by its utility, staking yield and dominance in tokenized assets protocols.
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Abacus commanded around 70% of the market share across all Bitcoin-enabled Western darknet marketplaces in 2024.
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Retired DEA agent Bill Callahan tells Cointelegraph that bad actors can make plenty of mistakes and still “make a handsome profit.”
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Sun Day is the second app that the Twitter co-founder has launched in the last week, and it was built using Block’s artificial intelligence assistant, Goose.
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Elon Musk said Grok may soon discover new physics as xAI works on a more advanced, vision-capable model.
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With the DIO model, everyday users become active infrastructure providers, enabling low-latency delivery of AI-generated and XR content across a decentralized network.
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SharpLink Gaming’s total Ether holdings hit 205,634 ETH after its latest round of buys, which it will commit to staking.
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You can set up and use a crypto hardware wallet in just a few steps. Learn how to get started, secure your keys and safely manage your assets.
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