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BNB BNB$648.71 traded in a narrow range on Sunday, reflecting resilience amid low volatility as the BNB Chain community gears up for a significant infrastructure upgrade, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis model. The Maxwell hard …

Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, CoinDesk’s Tech & Protocols reporter. In this issue: Ethereum Developer Proposes 6-Second Block Times to Boost …

Mining difficulty on the Bitcoin BTC$105,286.29 blockchain is on course to drop by the most since July 2021 after the amount of mining power securing the network slid about 30% in two weeks. According to veri from Mempool.space, a downward difficulty …

DeFi Development Corp. (DFDV), the Nasdaq-listed firm with a crypto treasury strategy focused on Solana SOL$135.09, is bringing its equity onto blockchain rails through crypto exchange Kraken’s upcoming tokenized stock trading venue. The company’s …

The institutionalization of cryptocurrencies is accelerating rapidly. Crypto derivatives exchange Deribit’s on-demand liquidity tool, the Deribit Block Request-for-Quote (RFQ) interface, has registered a cumulative trading volume of over $23 billion …

Soneium, the Ethereum overlay blockchain linked to 78-year-old Japanese electronics giant Sony, unveiled a new incubator program, Soneium For All, to accelerate consumer and gaming applications within its 7 million-user blockchain ecosystem. As …

MARA Holdings (MARA) said it produced 950 bitcoin BTC$105,571.16 last month, the most since January 2024 and 35% more than in April, while setting a new company record by winning 282 blocks, up 38% month-over-month. The record, powered by MARA’s …

Solana developers are planning what could be the blockchain’s most ambitious core upgrade to date — one that replaces its current technology stack with a redesigned consensus protocol built for near-instant finality and responsiveness. The new system …

As the Dubai Token2049 conference concludes, one of the key takeaways is that the narrative around bitcoin (BTC) is swiftly expanding beyond its traditional role as a store of value to a potential DeFi asset competing with Ethereum and Solana …

Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, the Ethereum protocol reporter on CoinDesk’s Tech team. In this issue: Inside Movement’s Token-Dump Scandal …