Brazil just made tokenized fund shares boring — which is exactly what real adoption looks like. CSD BR, a Brazilian central securities depository, is mirroring BTG Pactual investment fund share records on the XRP Ledger in partnership with Ripple
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Ethereum traders are about to find out what happens when everyone makes the same leveraged bet at the same price. The largest cluster of net long Ethereum positions on Hyperliquid sits at $2,538, creating a potential liquidation powder keg
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The infrastructure layer was supposed to print money forever, and then the math stopped working. Blast, once holding $2.3 billion in assets, is shutting down its Ethereum layer-2 network because operating costs now exceed revenue. Users have until Oct. 26 to withdraw.
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A Paradigm-backed L2 with millions in TVL just proved that "build it and they will come" doesn't work when the economics don't close. Blast is shutting down its Ethereum Layer 2 network after costs exceeded revenue, giving users until Oct. 26 to withdraw funds through the normal interface
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The stablecoin that made Ethereum viable for payments is betting Bitcoin can handle privacy better than layer 2s ever did. Tether is launching USDT on Bitcoin this month through Utexo, a Tether-backed project enabling private transfers and direct BTC-USDT swaps while keeping most data off-chain
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The smart money isn't fleeing to safety — it's building positions in the only asset class central banks can't print away. US spot bitcoin ETFs pulled $2.65 billion in September, the second-largest monthly haul since October 2025, with a nine-day streak adding $3 billion alone
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The rails are being laid for trillions in legacy wealth to move on-chain, and the infrastructure builders just hit a milestone most people still don't understand matters.
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The Ethereum Foundation just built the payment rail for a world where your AI assistant works for you, not for the company training the model. Ethereum Foundation and Open Anonymity launched zkAPI on mainnet, letting users pay for AI models without revealing their identity
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MicroStrategy wrote the playbook for Bitcoin treasuries, now Evernorth is betting $1 billion that XRP is next. Armada Acquisition Corp. II shareholders approved the Evernorth merger, clearing the way for what Decrypt calls the "largest pure-play" XRP treasury to hit Nasdaq on October 8
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Wall Street just moved the goalposts on Bitcoin, but the real story is what happened to 35,800 coins last week. Citi revised its 12-month Bitcoin price target from $82K to $113K, a 38% jump that still lands 10% below BTC's October 2025 all-time high
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Coinbase just turned every AI agent into a day trader with access to stocks, crypto, and derivatives — which means the real question isn't whether agents will trade, but which rails they'll run on when they do.
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The IRS hasn't figured out how to handle your DeFi yield farming, and now AI agents are about to generate thousands of taxable transactions per day while you sleep.
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Aave's newest version is growing fast, but the money story is somewhere else entirely. Aave V4's total value locked jumped 82% in September, with active loans up 76%, yet V4 generates just 2% of Aave's total protocol revenue
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Privacy on public blockchains just got a second life, three years after regulators made it too expensive to keep the lights on. Aztec Labs relaunched zk.money, a self-custodial privacy wallet that masks payments on its Ethereum Layer 2, after shutting down the original version in 2023
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The country that bet its reputation on Bitcoin just launched a dollar app instead. El Salvador launched Sivar, a government-backed app for digital dollar transfers built on Coinbase's Base network, with $2 cross-border processing fees plus separate funding and withdrawal charges
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While everyone watches the headline number, the real story is what institutional money is doing when it thinks no one's looking. BlackRock's IBIT pulled in $55M on Monday, leading all bitcoin ETFs while its ethereum ETF grabbed $15M in the same window
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The bridge between TradFi and DeFi just got a $100 billion stress test, and Goldman didn't need to tokenize a thing.
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The bank that spent 2022 saying crypto was too risky is now letting Fortune 500s take stablecoin payments without ever seeing a wallet.
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Ethereum's founder just stopped calling his creation a blockchain. Vitalik Buterin published a plan repositioning Ethereum as a "cryptographic world computer" rather than a blockchain, with Hegota as the last "normal" fork before everything gets rebuilt on recursive STARKs and formal verification
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When one company holds 3.8% of all Ethereum ever mined, its treasury doesn't just track the market—it becomes the market. Bitmine now holds 6 million ETH worth $16 billion, representing roughly 3.8% of Ethereum's total supply
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