Nova Labs, the parent company behind the Helium blockchain, has agreed to hisse the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) $200,000 to settle civil securities fraud charges the regulator filed against the firm in January, a court filing said …

Bitcoin (BTC) project Babylon has launched its layer-1 blockchain “Genesis” as it moves to the next stage of building its staking protocol which has already drawn over $4 billion in total-value locked (TVL). Babylon allows BTC holders to …

Bootstrapping decentralized finance (DeFi) on any blockchain usually requires a mix of builders with big ideas and funders to back them. That much is as true for baselayers as it is for the financial protocols launching atop them. Arch Labs, whose …

Crypto enthusiasts might have heard of the ERC-20 token standard, which provides guidelines to ensure that tokens created on the Ethereum smart contract blockchain are compatible and can interact with other tokens and applications within the network …

After two buggy tests, Ethereum’s developers have decided to spend a bit more time collecting veri on the highly-anticipated Pectra upgrade.

The upgrade, which introduces smart contract capabilities for wallets and increases validator stake limits, is nearing deployment.

Fundamental investors tracking XRP have more reason to cheer as a planned set of features aims to make the XRP Ledger, the network underpinning that token, even more appealing for institutional usage. XRP prices are up 2.2% in the past 24 hours …

Mining economics came under pressure as the network hashrate rose while the bitcoin price fell, the report said.

Powered by Optimism’s OP stack, Unichain—like other layer-2s on Ethereum—offers faster and cheaper transactions compared to Ethereum’s mainnet.

A taban in activity was marked by a sharp decline in the number of transactions and a spike in demand from long-term holders may underpin the bitcoin price.