326 posts tagged with "Ethereum"
Articles about Ethereum blockchain, smart contracts, and ecosystem
GSR's BESO ETF: How a Crypto Market Maker Just Outflanked BlackRock on Active Staking
GSR's April 22 launch of BESO — the first U.S.-listed multi-asset crypto ETF authorized to stake — turns a 13-year-old market maker into BlackRock's newest competitor on active management.
Etherealize: Ethereum's $40M Bet to Close the Enterprise Sales Gap
Etherealize closed a $40M Series A with Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum Foundation to fix the institutional sales gap that Polygon, Avalanche, and Hedera have spent years monetizing. Eight months in, here is what is working — and what could still derail it.
Solana's $650B February: How a Non-EVM Chain Became the World's Busiest Stablecoin Rail
Solana processed $650 billion in stablecoin transactions in February 2026 — more than Ethereum's $551B and the highest monthly volume on any blockchain. The data reframes which chain owns retail payments.
Solana's Post-Quantum Paradox: When 40x Signatures and 90% Speed Loss Threaten the Fastest Chain's Identity
Solana's first end-to-end post-quantum signature tests showed 40x larger signatures and a 90% throughput drop. Here is why Anza and Firedancer both chose Falcon, why Solana is uniquely exposed to a quantum break, and how the migration compares to Bitcoin's BIP-360 and Ethereum's account-abstraction path.
Bitmine's 5 Million ETH Treasury: The MicroStrategy Playbook With a Staking Yield Engine
Tom Lee's Bitmine now holds over 5 million ETH and 4.21% of Ethereum's supply. Why staking yield makes the corporate treasury math fundamentally different from MicroStrategy's Bitcoin playbook — and where the forced-seller tail risks lie.
Ethereum's 200M Transaction Milestone: How the Network Quietly Won While ETH Bled 50%
Ethereum just hit 200.4 million Q1 2026 transactions, $180B in stablecoins, and 60% of the tokenization market — yet ETH is down 50%. Inside the structural disconnect between the network's biggest quarter ever and a token that won't cooperate.
Web3 Intelligence vs. AI Decentralization: The Architecture War Shaping the Agent Economy
Two competing philosophies are shaping how AI agents get built on blockchains in 2026: retrofitting existing EVM chains with agent standards (ERC-8004, ERC-8183) versus building AI-native infrastructure from scratch (ASI Alliance, Ambient Proof-of-Logits). Here's what each camp gets right and where the agent economy is headed.
RISE Chain: The Ethereum L2 That Wants to Be Both Fast and Decentralized at the Same Time
RISE Chain combines Block-STM parallel execution with based rollup sequencing to build an Ethereum L2 targeting 100,000+ TPS while inheriting Ethereum's decentralization — an architectural bet backed by Vitalik Buterin and $11.2M in funding.
Consensys at the IPO Crossroads: Can MetaMask, Infura, and Linea Justify a $10B+ Public Debut?
Consensys is heading to the NYSE in 2026 with JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs behind a $10B+ valuation. Here's what MetaMask's 30M users, Infura's 10B daily requests, and Linea's zkEVM have to prove — and what Circle and Coinbase already told us about how Wall Street prices crypto infrastructure.