Solana’s plan to cut account deposits by 90% could weaken a reason to hold SOL
Only the first cut is live; the full plan would require tenfold persistent account state to preserve the old minimum SOL reserves.
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Zcash breaks $1,000 as its spot ETF crosses $400 million in assets
Zcash broke above $1,000 on Sept. 4, pushing the asset value of Grayscale’s recently listed ZCSH ETF past $400 million less than two weeks after its debut. ZEC registered an intraday high of $1,050.70, up roughly 20% over 24 hours…
How the “buy, borrow, die” tax trade is quietly loading DeFi pools with hidden credit risk
Imagine someone who bought ETH for $1,000, watched it climb to $4,000, and now wants to cash out $1,000. Selling one-quarter of the ETH would provide the cash, but it would also realize a $750 gain under US tax treatment…
Robinhood rejects AMC CEO’s demand to halt AMC tokenized ‘meme stock’ which offers no shareholder rights
Adam Aron threatened legal and SEC scrutiny; Robinhood's legal chief said the Jersey-issued debt product will remain.
Wall Street is turning AI’s massive electricity appetite into a $61 billion bond market
Every interaction with AI uses electricity in a data center. Servers calculate the answer, cooling equipment carries away the heat, and network connections send the result back to the user. Multiply that process across millions of requests and the electric…
Bitcoin dips below $80,000 as a hot August jobs report shifts Fed policy expectations
August payrolls weakened the case for patience, leaving Sept. 11 CPI as Bitcoin’s next decisive volatility test.
A major outage and corporate backlash hit Robinhood Chain at the peak of its growth
Robinhood Chain’s rapid growth ran into two problems at once on Sept. 4 as the network briefly stopped producing blocks while AMC challenged its fast-growing Stock Token business. On Sept. 4, the Ethereum layer-2 network halted block production for at…
El Salvador added 1,540 Bitcoin, but the IMF says Bukele’s government didn’t pay for them
A new IMF disclosure says no public resources funded the accumulation since its first review, exposing a gap in the country's one-Bitcoin-a-day message.
Hidden Solana upgrade bug can freeze network readers and silently disable fee limits
Mainnet activation is still pending, but incompatible indexers, streams and sponsors must update before the first v1 transaction arrives.
Bitwise 14% yield gap in XRP futures shows how institutions are quietly extracting cash from traders
Its 10.8 million-XRP custody position is 97.5% offset by futures, and CFTC categories complicate the obvious answer.
Privacy coin flaw risks endless token creation, leaving node operators with a deadline in hours to fix it
At block 1,371,000, v0.14.18.0 restores multi-input private spending and makes older software incompatible.
Bitcoin faces a two-week Fed trap as inflation rewrite threatens to upend rate cuts
Policymakers will have CPI but not official August PCE when they decide, leaving a second market test on Sept. 30.