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The UK's FCA Eases Stablecoin Rules Following Industry Backlash

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has now performed a significant about-turn on its stablecoin proposals, halving its planned capital requir...

XRP Ledger's 'Missing Layer' Draws Closer as Developers Test Lending, Credit Features: Ripple

Ripple outlined how the XRP Ledger Lending Protocol would provide institutions with a novel way to structure loans directly on-chain.

EU Lawmakers urges to examine whether DeFi, Staking & NFTs need MiCA-style rules

A European Parliament committee is pushing the European Union to take a closer look at whether crypto lending, staking, NFTs and decentralized finance...

Sophon Shuts Down Its zkSync Chain and Rebuilds as a Consumer App Studio on Base

Sophon is decommissioning its zkSync-based Layer 2 chain and pivoting to Soph+, a consumer product studio building exclusively on Base. The shutdown c...

Base Resumes Block Production After Roughly Two-Hour Mainnet Halt

Coinbase-incubated Layer 2 Base stalled block production for about two hours Thursday after an invalid block triggered a consensus fault, before the n...

Coinbase-Backed Ethereum Network Base Recovers After Block Production Issue

Ethereum layer-2 network Base was down for more than two hours as it ran into an issue with block production ahead of a planned upgrade.

Inside Orbs V5: The $14B Layer-3 Just Shipped Its Cross-Chain Verification Primitive

Crypto starts 2026 STRONG! Venezuela Impacts on the market! Lighter TGE reactions!

The global crypto market cap pushed another 2% to $3.22T as majors continue to grind up; BTC +1% at $93,780; ETH +2% at $3,240, SOL +3% at $139; XRP l...

Global Crypto MCap up to $3.22 Trillion! XRP up 12%! Japan Endorse Crypto! Fear & Greed back to Neutral!

The global crypto market cap pushed another 2% to $3.22T as majors continue to grind up; BTC +1% at $93,780; ETH +2% at $3,240, SOL +3% at $139; XRP l...