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All news is rigorously fact-checked and reviewed by leading blockchain experts and seasoned industry insiders. Local-currency stablecoins on Polygon have shot up as JPYC and BBRL power payments, wallets, lending, and faster regional settlements. Brazilian bank Grupo Braza introduced BBRL stablecoin to improve liquidity and enhance payment efficiency in forex payments. Polygon has recorded rising growth in local-currency stablecoin activity as new projects in Japan and Brazil boost the use cases for on-chain payments. Recent attention has been on yen and real-denominated instruments that facilitate settlements, merchant payments, and cross-border transfers.  In Japan, Polygon announced increased JPYC stablecoin use in…

The Bitcoin Lightning Network just crossed $1 billion in monthly transaction volume for the first time. That is a 266% year over year surge that happened while Bitcoin’s price dropped 40% from its October peak. When usage grows during a crash, it tells you something the charts cannot. Crypto infrastructure is maturing faster than sentiment suggests, according to Bitcoin Magazine.At the same time, XRP sentiment hit a five week high. Social activity climbed while the broader market bled. Elliott Wave analysts are calling XRP’s current sideways action a compression phase before a major breakout. Talk of a Nasdaq linked vehicle…

All news is rigorously fact-checked and reviewed by leading blockchain experts and seasoned industry insiders. Hyperliquid’s HIP-6 proposal advances permissionless token launches via continuous clearing auctions for projects to raise funds and discover fair prices. The proposal makes Hyperliquid a protocol where users can can launch, price and trade tokens entirely onchain. The Hyperliquid community is pushing a new improvement proposal that allows teams to raise money on-chain through continuous clearing auctions. Known as HIP-6, the new proposal is built around HIP-1, which introduced permissionless token deployment and HIP-2, which offers automated liquidity, known in the ecosystem as Hyperliquidity. However,…

All news is rigorously fact-checked and reviewed by leading blockchain experts and seasoned industry insiders. Ripple has injected $550 million into XRPL ecosystem since 2017, and this year, it will expand its focus to a more distributed model for founders. This includes launching a fintech builder program, the new XAO DAO for the XRPL network, and increased support for XRPL Commons. This year, Ripple is expanding its support for the XRP community, making it easier for founders and developers to access funding and other forms of support, the company has revealed. In its announcement, Ripple said it had deployed over…

Key highlights: Block Inc (XYZ) has added 340 Bitcoin worth about $22 million, lifting its total holdings to 8,883 BTC. The company recently cut over 4,000 jobs to streamline operations and improve productivity using AI tools. Block shares jumped over 20% after earnings met expectations and revenue topped estimates. Block reported that it purchased 340 Bitcoin during the fourth quarter of 2026, extending its long term treasury strategy around digital assets. The company said the newly acquired holdings were valued at about $22 million at the time of disclosure and have been added to its balance sheet as reserve assets.…

Shares of MARA Holdings climbed 13% in premarket trading Friday, even after the Bitcoin miner reported a $1.71 billion net loss for the fourth quarter, as investors focused on the company’s shift toward artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. The company posted a net loss of $1.71 billion for Q4 2025, compared with net income of $528.3 million during the same period a year earlier. Revenue for the quarter fell 6% to $202.3 million, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as lower Bitcoin prices offset gains from higher network hash rate. The largest driver of the quarterly…

Darius Baruo Feb 27, 2026 14:30 EF’s new 12-month program embeds advisors with critical infrastructure teams like Vyper to build sustainable funding beyond grants. First cohort now active. The Ethereum Foundation has launched Project Odin, a structured support program designed to wean critical infrastructure projects off single-source grant dependency. The initiative comes as ecosystem teams maintaining foundational code—from client implementations to smart contract languages—face recurring funding crises despite their work underpinning billions in on-chain value.Vyper, the Pythonic smart contract language securing over $2.3 billion in total value locked across 7,959 deployed contracts, serves…

Fidelity Digital Assets argues Bitcoin’s market structure has shifted enough that the familiar four-year boom-bust pattern and the brutal 80% drawdowns that often followed, may no longer be the default outcome. In a Feb. 24 research note titled “Is Bitcoin’s Four-Year Cycle Over?” research analyst Zack Wainwright frames the call around a simple observation: Bitcoin is now a very different-sized asset with a very different buyer base. Fidelity pegs Bitcoin’s market cap at an all-time high of roughly $2.5 trillion as of October 2025, alongside signs of deeper liquidity and a steadier volatility regime than prior cycles. “As bitcoin matures,…

Key Highlights: BitSafe launches CBTC, a wrapped Bitcoin asset built for use on the Canton Network as announced today. CBTC is fully backed 1:1 by Bitcoin, with on-chain verification powered by Chainlink. It allows secure lending, borrowing, and trading with real-time pricing for institutional use. BitSafe has launched something called CBTC, a version of Bitcoin that can be used inside the Canton Network as announced today, February 27, 2026 through social media platform X. CBTC is nothing but a “wrapped” version of Bitcoin that works inside the Canton Network. This will allow Bitcoin to be used for activities like lending,…

Key Highlights: Data from DefiLlama shows Perp DEX volumes declining, with Hyperliquid down about 15.5% in 24 hours. Despite the drop, Hyperliquid still leads with about $60B daily volume, ahead of Aster and EdgeX. Softer crypto prices and an upcoming $8.9B options expiry are reducing leverage demand and weighing on derivatives activity. Trading activity across major perpetual futures decentralized exchanges (DEXs) has slowed down, as the global crypto market sentiments remain weak since 2025. Data from DefiLlama shows that volumes across leading Perp DEX platforms dipped over the past 24 hours, with the largest platform, Hyperliquid, seeing a drop of…