Marathon Digital’s 50 EH/s expansion and energy control
Marathon Digital leverages a 250 megawatt Abu Dhabi joint venture and Long Ridge gas turbine to achieve $0.04 per kilowatt hour power costs. This energy control…
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Bitcoin
Riot Platforms shifts toward nuclear power and AI data centers
Riot Platforms is pivoting toward small modular nuclear plants through a partnership with Terrestrial Energy to power AI data centers. While mining operations faced…
Charts & flows
Markets & Analysis
Bounties drive fund recovery and on-chain data intelligence
Arkham Intelligence uses bounties to aid fund recovery, such as a recent task to find Do Kwon wallets for a 9519 ARKM bounty. The platform competes with Nansen by…
Open finance
DeFi
Staking dominance and the stETH ecosystem
Lido maintains liquid staking leadership with stETH reaching $26.27 billion in total value locked by 2026. Despite market share shifts toward institutional players, the…
Ownership online
NFT & Web3
Policy & law
Regulation
Circle wins the regulatory race against Tether
Circle secures a competitive advantage in Europe through MiCA authorization for USDC and EURC, while Tether faces potential delistings. Circle manages reserves via a…
Tightening crypto rules in Europe
ESMA guidance requires crypto-asset service providers to block unauthorized stablecoin access by January 8, 2027. Meanwhile, Polish President Karol Nawrocki has vetoed…
Kraken vs Coinbase: The Post-Enforcement Era
Kraken and Coinbase face evolving regulatory landscapes following SEC lawsuit dismissals and MiCA competition. Kraken offers lower maker fees starting at 0.25% compared…
Common mistakes with Coinbase’s October 2026 Base L2 compliance
Coinbase faces regulatory shifts following a $150,000 settlement over SEC internal records and the dismissal of previous enforcement actions. New rulemaking efforts…
Under the hood
Blockchain Tech
Monad scaling and the 200,000 TPS benchmark
Monad achieved a 200,000 TPS benchmark during devnet testing using optimistic parallel execution and MonadBFT. The network targets 10,000 sustained transactions per…
L1 costs collapse under ACP-77 and new Avalanche subnet tokenomics
Avalanche deployment costs dropped by 99.9% following the ACP-77 upgrade, which allows L1 validators to pay continuous fees instead of a 2,000 AVAX stake. This shift…
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