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It wants to stay decentralized, reach agreement without a central authority, and handle more activity without slowing down. This tension is often called the blockchain trilemma. According to Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin, that balance is no longer theoretical. It is now running in live code. With PeerDAS active on mainnet and ZK EVMs reaching alpha quality, Vitalik says Ethereum is becoming a fundamentally new kind of decentralized network. This matters because it changes what Ethereum can support at scale. These upgrades are not small speed tweaks. They reshape how data and computation move across the network, opening the door to…

Darius Baruo Jan 04, 2026 20:32 Uniswap’s UNI token trades at $5.86 following the activation of a fee switch that burns trading fees, while broader crypto weakness pressures DeFi tokens despite positive fundamentals. Quick Take • UNI trading at $5.86 (down 0.5% in 24h) • Fee switch activation introduces deflationary tokenomics • Testing support near $5.81 amid Bitcoin correlation • Institutional ETF filing provides medium-term optimism Market Events Driving Uniswap Price Movement The most significant development for UNI price over the past week has been Uniswap’s activation of the fee switch mechanism on…

Fake two-factor authentication phishing campaign emerges targeting MetaMask users. A sophisticated phishing scam targeting MetaMask users exploits fake 2FA checks. MetaMask phishing scam highlights rising social engineering risks in crypto security. A new phishing campaign targeting MetaMask users is drawing attention to how quickly crypto scams are evolving. The scheme uses a convincing two-factor authentication flow to trick users into handing over their wallet recovery phrases. While overall crypto phishing losses fell sharply in 2025, the tactics behind these attacks are becoming more polished and harder to detect. Security researchers say the campaign reflects a shift from crude spam messages…

In brief BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) recorded $287.4 million in inflows on Friday, its largest single-day haul since early October. Bitcoin ETFs collectively pulled in $471.3 million on Friday, marking the highest total inflows since mid-November. Bitcoin is trading at $92,670 according to CoinGecko data, amid broader institutional appetite. BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF pulled in its biggest single-day inflow in nearly three months on Friday, as investors piled into crypto-linked funds.Heightened geopolitical tensions following the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro have also helped spur the asset into a fourth consecutive daily win streak. On Friday, BlackRock’s iShares…

Crypto traders flooded back to memecoins as the new year turned, driving memecoin market capitalization up by over 23% in the last week after trading at a yearly low in the final days of 2025.The memecoin market cap crossed $47.7 billion on Monday, up from $38 billion on Dec. 29, according to cryptocurrency data platform CoinMarketCap.The top three memecoins by market capitalization have posted double-digit gains in the past week. Dogecoin (DOGE) has gained over 20%, Shiba Inu (SHIB) has risen 19.9%, and Pepe (PEPE) has soared by over 65%. At the same time, memecoin transaction volume has spiked, jumping…

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Stablecoin transfer volume on Ethereum surpassed $8 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2025, marking a new all-time high, Token Terminal reported on Monday.The $8 trillion milestone is almost double the transfer volume figure for the second quarter, which was just over $4 trillion, according to Token Terminal’s chart.Stablecoin issuance on Ethereum increased by around 43% in 2025 from $127 billion to $181 billion by year’s end, according to BlockWorks.  “This isn’t speculation. This is global payments happening on-chain,” commented “BMNR Bullz” on X. “This is before SWIFT-style integrations, full RWA tokenization, and institutional rails going live. “The rails are already…

Waves Overview Our real-time WAVES to USD price update shows the current Waves price as $0.71 USD. Our most recent Waves price forecast indicates that its value will increase by 1.12% and reach $0.72 by January 07, 2026. Our technical indicators signal about the bearish Bullish 24% market sentiment on Waves, while the Fear & Greed Index is displaying a score of 25 (Extreme Fear). Over the last 30 days, Waves has had 14/30 (47%) green days and 4.04% price volatility. Waves Profit Calculator Profit calculation please wait… Waves (WAVES) Technical Overview When discussing future trading opportunities of digital assets,…

TRM’s report shows crypto is now embedded in state economic and security planning, not treated as a fringe asset. A new report by blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs has revealed that governments around the world are no longer standing on the sidelines of crypto markets, with states from North Korea to Singapore actively putting blockchain networks to work as part of their national financial strategies. However, there’s a divide between how authoritarian and democratic governments use digital assets, and this, per the report, is turning crypto into a quiet but powerful force in global finance and geopolitics. Crypto Moves…

Bitcoin developers working on the software that powers most nodes backing the blockchain had a busy year in 2025, with more developers pushing out more code, according to Bitcoiner Jameson Lopp.Lopp, the co-founder of the crypto management platform Casa, said on Sunday that 135 different people had contributed code to Bitcoin Core last year, rising from just over 100 individuals in 2024 and continuing an uptrend. The number of contributors peaked in 2018 with nearly 200 contributors.Those developers also changed more code, with Lopp reporting 285,000 lines of code were changed last year, a more than 3% jump from the…