In 2026, Ethereum will reclaim its lost ground in self-governance and trustlessness, according to project co-founder Vitalik Buterin. 2026 is the year that we take back lost ground in terms of self-sovereignty and trustlessness. Some of what this practically means: Full nodes: thanks to ZK-EVM and BAL, it will once again become easier to locally […]
Mining company Riot Platforms has acquired an approximately 81-hectare plot for $96 million near its flagship data center in Rockdale, Texas. We’re excited to share a series of transformative transactions that firmly establish our rapidly scaling data center business — including fee simple acquisition of our Rockdale site and signing our first data center lease […]
One of Belgium’s largest banks, KBC, will launch the option for retail clients to buy and sell leading digital assets by market capitalization starting February 16. The institution will implement the option in accordance with the set of European rules MiCA and based on its own platform, Bolero. “This will allow self-directed investors in Belgium […]
Chinese AI giant Baidu has released an updated version of its flagship AI model, ERNIE-5.0, which has demonstrated impressive results in various tests. 🚨 BREAKING: @Baidu_inc’s ERNIE-5.0-0110 has just delivered impressive results on LMArena. It’s not a test run or preview. In the latest rankings, the model scored 1460 on the text benchmark, placing it […]
Amid widespread protests and a record decline of the Iranian rial, citizens have significantly increased the transfer of the leading cryptocurrency from exchanges to personal wallets, according to data from Chainalysis. New analysis reveals Iran’s crypto ecosystem surpassed $7.78B in 2025, with on-chain activity closely correlated with geopolitical and domestic tensions. Our data show: — […]
Glassnode researchers observed a doubling in Ethereum’s activity-retention metric. Ethereum’s Month-over-Month Activity Retention shows a sharp spike in the “New” cohort, indicating a surge in first-time interacting addresses over the past 30 days.This reflects a notable influx of new wallets engaging with the Ethereum network, rather than activity being… pic.twitter.com/h8Zw7hXOSX — glassnode (@glassnode) January 15, […]
On January 16, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed the law “On Crypto Banks and Certain Issues of Control in the Sphere of Digital Tokens.” According to decree No. 19, a crypto bank is defined as a joint-stock company that is a resident of the High-Tech Park (HTP) and is included in a special register of […]
The social network X has revised its policy on the use of API by third-party developers, restricting applications that rewarded users for posts. This was announced by the platform’s head of product, Nikita Bier. We are revising our developer API policies: We will no longer allow apps that reward users for posting on X (aka […]
Web3 wallet MetaMask has integrated support for the TRON network into its mobile app and browser extension. Users will be able to transfer and trade TRC-20 tokens, as well as stake the native TRX coin. When assets are locked in the mobile app, users receive Bandwidth and Energy, which can be used to pay fees […]
BitMine Immersion Technologies announced a $200 million investment in Beast Industries, the company of popular blogger Jimmy Donaldson, known as MrBeast. The parties anticipate closing the deal around January 19. Beast Industries CEO Jeff Housenbold noted that the new funds will help scale the business and strengthen its status as a leading entertainment brand. He […]
