Since the value of money is nothing more than a social agreement, financial history remembers the year 2010 as the moment when a couple of pizzas set the first price of bitcoin (BTC). That day, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC for two family pizzas, establishing the first documented commercial transaction with the pioneering digital … Read more
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared yesterday, May 16, 2026, a “public health emergency of international concern” due to the Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo variant in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. This statement revived fears in global markets due to the memory of the COVID-19 pandemic, although the agency advised … Read more
About 75% of the global Bitcoin hashrate sat down at the same table to adopt a solution to one of the biggest criticisms of mining: the centralization of power in pools. Not out of philanthropy, but motivated by the same game theory inherent to the operation of Bitcoin: economic incentives. Foundry, AntPool, F2Pool, SpiderPool, MARA … Read more
For Drake, the cryptocurrency ecosystem would be the first target of a successful quantum attack. The Ethereum Foundation set 2029 as a target to complete its post-quantum migration. Justin Drake, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, raised his estimate of the probability that a quantum computer will be able to compromise current cryptography by 2032 … Read more
Digital asset investment firm Grayscale warned on May 14, 2026 that a prolonged high interest rate scenario in the United States could put pressure on bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies, while driving the tokenization of traditional financial assets and increasing revenues for issuers of stablecoins like USDC. In a report prepared by Zach Pandlthe company … Read more
Digital asset investment firm Grayscale warned on May 14, 2026 that a prolonged high interest rate scenario in the United States could put pressure on bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies, while driving the tokenization of traditional financial assets and increasing revenues for issuers of stablecoins like USDC. In a report prepared by Zach Pandlthe company … Read more
Approval in the Banking Committee is the penultimate stage before it becomes law. There are estimates that Clarity will be enacted before the summer recess, in August. The regulatory path for cryptocurrencies in the United States reached a turning point following the approval of the Clarity Act in the Senate Banking Committee. With a vote … Read more
Aave reactivated the rsETH markets on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Linea and Mantle this May 14, 2026, once again allowing withdrawals and operations with the token after almost three weeks of freezing caused by the Kelp DAO hack. The measure returns access to users who kept funds or collateral locked in rsETH and comes after Aave, … Read more
The Capitol in Washington has just taken a step that could redraw the global financial map. After overcoming the tough voting process in the Senate Banking Committee, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (Clarity Act) is advancing with a momentum that the cryptocurrency sector interprets as a historic event. Although the project still must face … Read more
After a session that kept the entire financial ecosystem in suspense, the Senate Banking Committee, made up of 13 Republicans and 11 Democrats, voted in favor of the Clarity Bill (Digital Asset Market Clarity Act). The final bipartisan vote was 15-9, with Senators Ruben Gallego and Angela Alsobrooks joining Republicans to move the bill forward … Read more