Ethereum's Dencun Upgrade Lands With Blobs, L2 Fees Crash
The largest upgrade since the Merge introduced EIP-4844 'blob' transactions, immediately collapsing rollup transaction fees by an order of magnitude.
Theo Schmid//Mar 13, 2024//5m
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Ethereum's Pectra Upgrade Ships, Changing Staking Economics
Pectra activated at epoch 364,032 with eleven EIPs, lifting the validator balance ceiling to 2,048 ETH, doubling blob throughput, and unlocking account abstraction primitives.
Theo Schmid//May 7, 2025//6m
Spot XRP ETFs Pull $58M Day-One Volume on Debut
Canary Capital's XRPC became the largest U.S. ETF launch of 2025 by day-one volume, beating even Bitwise's Solana product, in a clear sign of pent-up XRP demand.
Ava Sundberg//Nov 13, 2025//4m
Aave V4 Launches with Unified Liquidity and Cross-Chain Credit
The largest on-chain money market has shipped its biggest architectural overhaul since 2020, consolidating fragmented liquidity into a single hub.
Sebastian Cole//Nov 26, 2025//6m
Uniswap's Fee Switch Finally Flips, with a 'Token Jar' Twist
After years of debate, the protocol-level fee switch is live — diverting between one-quarter and one-sixth of fees into a contract that UNI holders can burn into.
Riya Mehta//Dec 18, 2025//6m
MakerDAO Rebrands as Sky, Spark Spinout Launches Standalone
The original DeFi blue-chip completed its long-telegraphed Endgame restructuring, splitting into Sky for the stablecoin layer and Spark for the lending business.
Riya Mehta//Sep 18, 2024//6m
PancakeSwap V4 Launches with Hooks on BNB Chain
The largest BNB Chain DEX has shipped its biggest architectural overhaul, mirroring Uniswap V4's hook-based extensibility model.
Riya Mehta//Feb 12, 2025//5m
PENGU Token Airdrop Lands on Solana
The Pudgy Penguins token launched on Solana with an 88.8 billion-coin supply, marking one of the largest IP-aligned NFT-to-token distributions in crypto history.
Lena Park//Dec 17, 2024//4m
Pudgy Penguins Picks OpenSea as Official Marketplace
Igloo Inc. and OpenSea announced an exclusive partnership making OpenSea the official venue for Pudgy Penguins NFT collections and the PENGU token.
Marcus Webb//Sep 4, 2025//4m
Pudgy Penguins Go Mainstream as Retail IP Strategy Pays Off
Plush toys, Walmart shelves, and a hit Roblox experience have made the cartoon penguins one of the few NFT brands to reach a broad consumer audience.
Lena Park//Mar 26, 2025//5m
Tokenized Real Estate Protocols Cross the Billion-Dollar Mark
On-chain rental yields and fractional condo ownership are quietly building one of the most boring, durable corners of the NFT economy.
Carmen Diaz//Nov 19, 2024//6m
CryptoPunks Floor Holds Even As Other Blue Chips Bleed
The collection that essentially invented the NFT category has shown striking relative stability while peers have lost 80–95% from cycle peaks.
Jordan Kim//Feb 25, 2025//5m
Bored Ape Holders Concentrate Into a 7,000-Wallet Base
Holder concentration has tightened steadily through the drawdown, with the BAYC collection's economic ownership now spread across the smallest distinct wallet set in its history.
Jordan Kim//Oct 12, 2024//4m
Tokenized Music Royalty NFTs Cross a Mainstream Threshold
On-chain music-rights protocols have crossed several million dollars in monthly royalty distributions, with major-label catalog partnerships finally translating into recurring on-chain payments.
Carmen Diaz//Feb 18, 2026//5m
Public Bitcoin Treasury Companies Multiply Across Tokyo, Toronto, São Paulo
More than two dozen non-U.S. listed companies have announced material Bitcoin treasury positions, with Japanese and Brazilian issuers leading the trend.
Helena Cross//Sep 9, 2025//5m
CleanSpark Earns Record Power Credits Through Curtailment
Disciplined participation in ERCOT's demand-response programs has made curtailment revenue a meaningful share of CleanSpark's overall mining margin.
Roy Atkinson//Dec 3, 2025//5m
Cipher Mining Signs Major HPC Hosting Deal
The U.S. miner announced a multi-year HPC hosting contract with a Fortune 500 cloud customer, signaling the deepening relationship between mining and AI infrastructure.
Theresa Volkov//Oct 15, 2025//5m
CoreWeave-Style HPC Pivots Tempt the Largest Miners
As CoreWeave's market valuation has demonstrated the multiple traditional public markets pay for AI hosting, the largest miners are exploring more aggressive AI strategies.
Theresa Volkov//Oct 4, 2025//6m
CLARITY Act Passes House 294-134, Heads to Senate
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act passed the House with bipartisan support, defining when a token is a security versus a commodity and clarifying SEC vs CFTC jurisdiction.
Marcus Webb//Jul 17, 2025//5m
SEC Drops Cases Against Multiple Major Crypto Firms in 2025 Reset
Under new leadership, the SEC formally dismissed enforcement actions against Consensys, Robinhood Crypto, Uniswap Labs, and several other prominent industry firms.
Marcus Webb//Mar 8, 2025//5m
The NFT Obituaries Were Premature — Here Is What They Missed
Yes, JPEG floor prices are far below their 2021 peaks. No, that does not mean tokenized digital ownership has failed.
Jordan Kim//Dec 19, 2024//6m
Account Abstraction Is the First Real Opt-Out From Wallets-as-Crypto
EIP-7702 isn't just a technical upgrade. It's the first credible path to letting users transact on-chain without ever thinking about a wallet.
Quinn Bradley//May 21, 2025//5m
Why Solana's Ethereum-Shaped Aspirations Will Trip on Client Diversity
The chain's institutional ambitions require operational resilience that its current near-monoculture validator stack structurally cannot deliver.
Idris Yamamoto//Dec 30, 2025//6m