The bitcoin mining industry is undergoing the most fundamental transformation in its history, and the clearest sign isn’t the hashrate or the difficulty adjustments. It’s the balance sheets. CoinShares’ Q1 2026 mining report, published this week, reveals that the weighted average cash cost to produce one bitcoin among publicly listed miners rose to approximately $79,995…
Ripple is overhauling how it secures the XRP Ledger, and AI is at the center of the effort. Its engineering team outlined a new AI-driven security strategy for the XRP Ledger in a detailed post earlier this week, one that integrates machine learning tools across the protocol’s entire development lifecycle. The strategy includes AI-assisted code…
Iran escalation and $171 million in ETF outflows drive BTC below $66,000. Source link
Intercontinental Exchange has now deployed nearly $2 billion into the onchain prediction market, underscoring Wall Street’s growing conviction that event-based trading is here to stay. Source link
A new working paper from the European Central Bank examined four major protocols and found that a small number of actors control the bulk of governance token holdings. A European Central Bank working paper challenges the notion that decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) deliver on their promise of distributed governance, finding that token holdings and voting…
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind Claude, has begun testing a new AI model more capable than any it has released previously, Fortune reported. The company said the model represents “a step change” in performance and is “the most capable we’ve built to date.” It is currently being tested with a small group of early…
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), said it added another $600 million to its investment in prediction market platform Polymarket, closing out a previously announced funding agreement between the two firms. The new capital comes on top of a $1 billion investment ICE made in October. ICE also…
Anchorage Digital, the first crypto firm to get a U.S. banking charter, said it will add support for the Tron blockchain, starting with institutional custody for TRX, the network’s native token. The announcement gives institutions a regulated way to hold TRX through the company’s platform and its self-custody wallet, Porto. Anchorage Digital said support for…
Bitcoin fell another 2% in 24 hours, dropping below $68,000 for the first time in four days. The decline sparked more than $50 million in long liquidations in the past hour, according to Coinglass, of which roughly 70% came from bitcoin positions alone. The decline sent shares of crypto-related companies such as Circle Internet (CRCL),…
The LayerZero integration gives assets tokenized on Canton access to over 165 public blockchains. LayerZero has integrated with the institution-focused blockchain Canton (CC), becoming the first interoperability protocol to go live on the network, per a press release shared with The Defiant. The integration, announced today, March 26, lets traditional financial institutions on Canton route…