Cardano opened its public Dijkstra testnet, letting stake pool operators begin preparing for the Node 11.2 protocol upgrade. ADA traded near $0.216 on Friday, up 0.99% over 24 hours, while the broader crypto market was valued at $2.73 trillion. Technical indicators on ADA’s chart were mixed, with key levels at…
Ethereum researchers have proposed cutting expected transaction finality from about 16 minutes to about 4 minutes. The Decoupled Consensus design would separate block selection from finality voting in an effort to strengthen security. The proposal has no approved implementation date, and it would require a hard fork before any change…
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs recorded $635.49 million in net outflows on Thursday, the largest daily outflow since June 25. BlackRock’s IBIT and Fidelity’s FBTC accounted for roughly 74% of the day’s withdrawals, and ether ETFs also reversed into heavy selling. Bitcoin ETFs remain positive for the week, but the rapid…
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says he and co-founder Chris Larsen seriously weighed shutting the company down after the SEC filed its 2020 lawsuit. The shutdown option involved distributing Ripple’s XRP holdings to shareholders, not closing the XRP Ledger or affecting XRP held by the public. Garlinghouse estimated the four-year legal…
Polling firm Wedgewood has admitted fabricating most of its election surveys, and VoteHub, an aggregator that carried those results, is the named data source for recurring Kalshi contracts. Kalshi’s September 2025 filing says revisions made after expiration will not be counted in determining the expiration value, which raises questions about…