Handling USDC disputes has always been a tricky part of using stablecoins. Once you send a payment on-chain, there is usually no way to reverse it—no refunds, no chargebacks, and no easy fix if something goes wrong.

Shiba Inu (SHIB), the second-largest meme coin by market cap, might be on the verge of a recovery. Recent data reveals a huge spike in SHIB's burn rate, with 26.48 million tokens being permanently removed from circulation. This has led to a slight price increase, raising hopes among investors.

Taking to social media platform X, Ethereum Foundation (EF) Co-Executive Director Tomasz Stanczak has highlighted Vitalik Buterin's role in the nonprofit organization. Vitalik Buterin, an Ethereum cofounder, generally contributes to the growth and development of the network.

The dollar value of staked tokens on Solana has briefly surpassed that of Ethereum, leading to bullish sentiments among SOL holders. According to data from Nansen.ai CEO Alex Svaniek, Solana's staking market cap recently reached $53.96 billion.

USDT on TRON reached record supply after another 1B mint. For 2025, Tether added 10B tokens to the TRON network.

Bitcoin breaks above key resistance level, STX leads altcoins with double digit gains.

Vitalik Buterin proposed, through the Ethereum Magicians forum, that the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) could be replaced with a RISC-V architecture, making a fundamental change to the underlying execution layer of Ethereum and improving the virtual machine's handling of smart contracts. The change, according to Buterin, could improve efficiency, enable long-term scalability, and simplify the execution layer.

The Ethereum Foundation seems to have had enough of the criticism from the crypto industry and its community, especially about its less-than-stellar performance in recent market cycles.

HTX, a leading global cryptocurrency exchange, has announced the launch of its Million USDT Airdrop Event, designed to give back to loyal users and welcome new participants. Running from 09:00 (UTC) on April 18 to 09:00 (UTC) on April 25, the campaign features over 1 million USDT in prizes across HTX's Spot, Futures, Margin, and Earn services.

TL;DR Solana briefly surpassed Ethereum in total staked value (TVL), with over $53.9 billion in SOL delegated by more than 500,000 unique wallets.

PlanB, a well-known Bitcoin analyst famous for the Stock-to-Flow (S2F) model, recently criticized Ethereum as ETH's price and dominance have dropped significantly since the beginning of the year.

The Ethereum Foundation (EF) is sharpening its focus on improving the Layer 1 network and enhancing the user experience through a series of upcoming protocol upgrades. On April 21, Tomasz Stańczak, the incoming co-director at EF, confirmed that the organization is shifting its research priorities.

TL;DR Balance Foundation Dual-Chain Debut: The EPT token launches simultaneously on BNB and Ethereum, enhancing liquidity and cross-chain interactions. Community-Centric Design: With a 10 billion token supply, the project rewards early supporters and active contributors through innovative tokenomics and a targeted airdrop.

Back in 2021, at the height of the meme coin bull run, Shiba Inu ran over 7,000,000% to outperform the more established Dogecoin. This performance was achieved with the expectation that Shiba Inu was the “Dogecoin killer” and that the meme coin would eventually flip DOGE to become the leading meme coin.

Although Shiba Inu has recently displayed signs of life, on-chain data indicates a significant obstacle that could stop its momentum in its tracks. Following a breakout above the 50 EMA, which frequently indicates a possible change in market structure, SHIB is now getting close to a significant resistance zone that might serve as a significant trap for the meme coin.

Zora, an Ethereum-based platform recognized for its focus on non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and creator-centric content, has announced the launch of its native token.

Ethereum co-founder has proposed replacing the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) with RISC-V, an open-source instruction set architecture. The proposal, shared on the Ethereum Magicians forum, could drastically improve the network's scalability, efficiency, and simplicity, especially for zero-knowledge applications.

Bitcoin price today has officially broken past the $87,000 mark, marking a bold new chapter in this ongoing bull cycle. Bitcoin's $87K mark is reviving its “digital gold” narrative as economic uncertainty grips global markets. With gold hitting new highs above $3,380 and the U.S.

Crypto investors are no longer flying solo. In a market that demands precision, speed, and strategy, the need for a co-pilot has never been greater—and Web3 ai is answering the call.

The amount of stolen funds from the Bybit hack that have slipped out of reach continues to rise as the days go by. On April 21, Bybit CEO Ben Zhou revealed that around $400 million, around 27.6% of the $1.4 billion in stolen Ethereum, can no longer be traced.

Meme coins have been a hot topic of discussion in the crypto market ever since. Among many, Pepe Coin is one of the top meme coins that tapped the meme-driven hype; the Pepe Coin price grew exponentially.

The Ethereum Foundation, the nonprofit organization developing the Ethereum ecosystem, is shifting its focus to user experience and layer-1 scaling challenges following its recent leadership reshuffle. On April 21, the Ethereum Foundation co-executive director Tomasz Stańczak shared an X post detailing how the organization has changed since its change in leadership structures.

Bitcoin (BTC) ending its 8-day consolidation as it shot up just 2.76% in early Asian session on Monday. This sudden uptrend caused liquidation of nearly $100M in shorts in the crypto market.

Shiba Inu's price holds at $0.00001250 as burn rate surges 3,277% and whales sell off, with technical patterns suggesting a possible rally.

According to data from StakingRewards, Solana (SOL) has overtaken Ethereum (ETH) in staking market capitalization, reaching $53.15 billion compared to Ethereum's $53.72 billion.

North Korea's Lazarus Group stole $1.4 billion from Bybit; 68.6% remains traceable while hackers laundered funds through mixers and swaps.

Data shared by the analytics X account @lookonchain and also mirrored by Whale Alert blockchain tracker shows that approximately half an hour ago, Tether issued a massive stablecoin chunk containing 1,000,000,000 USDT.

Solana briefly overtook Ethereum in total staked value, which restarted debates over whether high staking yields are good or harmful to network growth.

Metaverse-based token Decentraland (MANA) is today's top-performing asset. The altcoin's value has soared over 10% in the past 24 hours, pushing it to a two-month high of $0.31 at press time.

The BNB Chain is the biggest carrier for USDT active wallets, offering small-scale transfers for trading and DEX swaps.

Here's why Ethereum's founder wants EVM replaced with a faster RISC-V.

According to the data published by the popular Shibburn on-chain burn tracker, over the past day, the Shiba Inu team has managed to dispose of a large amount of meme coins, moving millions of them out of the circulating supply.

Ethereum is showing signs of life again, recording a 2.5% price surge in the past 24 hours. This surge comes as the TD Sequential indicator flashes a buy signal, noted by popular crypto analyst Ali Martinez. Martinez believes this week could be important for the world's second-largest cryptocurrency.

Ethereum rises above $1,600 as whale accumulation and Vitalik's RISC-V proposal boost confidence despite declining network usage metrics.

Vitalik Buterin has suggested a change to the Ethereum network's execution layer by proposing a switch to the RISC-V instruction set architecture. The post Vitalik Buterin Proposes RISC-V Upgrade to Boost Ethereum's Execution Speed appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bybit is seeing its stolen funds fade away since only $200 million in Ethereum is left to be swapped to Bitcoin.

Nearly three years after Vitalik Buterin mocked his Stock-to-Flow model, anonymous analyst PlanB hit back, calling Ethereum a “centralized premined shitcoin.

Whale accumulation is officially underway, and Ethereum is displaying encouraging signs of recovery, which are confirmed by on-chain activity. A significant whale has taken out 3,844 ETH in total over the last two weeks (approximately $6.51 million) from Bitget, a centralized exchange.

Binance BNB Chain is quietly stealing the spotlight. Over the past month, it has become the number one choice for people using USDT (Tether), the world's most popular stablecoin. With nearly 12 million active wallets, BNB Chain has now taken the lead from other big players like TRON and Ethereum.

Crypto prices have started the year on a strong note, with Bitcoin surging to over $87,500 and Ethereum rising to $1,340. The total market cap of all cryptocurrencies tracked by CoinMarketCap jumped to $2.76 trillion. This article provides a forecast for top tokens like Stellar Lumens (XLM), Decentraland (MANA), and Stacks (STX).

Vitalik Buterin has proposed a long-term overhaul to Ethereum's execution environment to replace the Ethereum Virtual Machine with RISC-V, a standardized and extensible instruction set architecture.

Ethereum Foundation's new co-executive director Tomasz K. Stańczak says Buterin's proposals are meant to spark discussions and invite scrutiny regarding the network's future goals and breakthroughs.

According to a recent analysis by Binance Research, the upcoming Ethereum upgrades, Pectra and Fusaka, could redefine the network's capabilities in terms of scalability and crypto payments.

Is ETH's true value waiting to awaken from its slumber?

The start of the second quarter has given some hope to the crypto assets with Bitcoin trading at the range of $84K to $85K, the market looks quite stable despite the looming dangers of Trump's Tariff decisions, inflation, global economic slowdown, and interest rate concerns.

Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed overhauling the blockchain's smart contract infrastructure by replacing the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) with RISC-V, a widely adopted open-source instruction set architecture.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed a transformative idea to replace the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) with RISC-V as the primary virtual machine language for smart contracts, aiming to enhance the efficiency and scalability of Ethereum's execution layer.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposes a radical execution layer overhaul using RISC-V, while veteran trader Peter Brandt warns of a potential price collapse.