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BNB Chain’s Fermi Upgrade Brings 0.45-Second Blocks and Faster Finality
BNB Chain’s Fermi upgrade, which goes live Wednesday, will cut BNB Smart Chain (BSC) block times from 0.75 seconds to 0.45 seconds and push transaction finality…
Solana Policy Institute Urges SEC Protect DeFi Developers From Regulations
Update (Jan. 13, 2026, 9.45 a.m. UTC): This article was updated to clarify the legal status and jurisdictions of recent cases involving Tornado Cash developers.…
Ethereum Must Pass Walkaway Test to Be Self-Sustaining
Ethereum needs to get to a point where its value proposition remains even if developers stop active work on the protocol, according to its co-founder Vitalik…
CFTC Forms Panel Regulating Blockchain, AI Innovation
US Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair Mike Selig has unveiled the agency’s new innovation committee, aimed at guiding the regulation of emerging…
Bank of Italy Models Ether-to-Zero Scenario in Stress Test
The Bank of Italy modeled what would happen to Ethereum’s security and settlement capacity if the price of Ether fell to zero, treating the network as critical…
Starknet Team Outlines Root Cause of Latest Network Outage
The outage was the second major network disruption in 2025, with both incidents requiring a block reorganization that rolled back some activity.Cointelegraph is!-->-->!--]-->!-->-->!-->-->…
Nasdaq and CME Team Up To Issue the Nasdaq-CME Crypto Index
The Nasdaq Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group joined forces to unify their crypto indexes, rebranding the Nasdaq Crypto Index (NCI) as…
BNY Launches Tokenized Bank Deposits for Institutional Clients
BNY, a financial services company that traces its roots back to one of the oldest financial institutions in the United States, launched tokenized bank deposits…
The 24/7 Global Stock Market Is Impossible On Today’s Blockchain
Opinion by: Joshua Sum, head of product at Solayer LabsConsider a single, borderless financial market operating around the clock, where a farmer in Nebraska can…
Optimism Proposes Using 50% Of Superchain Revenue To Buy Back OP Tokens
The Optimism Foundation has floated a major shakeup to the dynamics of the layer 2’s OP token, proposing to allocate 50% of its Superchain revenue to regular…