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For more than a decade, the XRP Ledger (XRPL) has, for one reason or another, stood apart from the rest of the blockchain industry.Built in 2012, long before the rise of modern DeFi, it embraced a minimalist design of fast settlement, deterministic consensus, and no economic incentives for validators.That architecture helped XRPL grow into a trusted payments network, but it also left it structurally different from the yield-driven systems that now dominate the digital asset economy.A payments chain in a yield-powered economyXRPL’s consensus model, known as Proof of Association (PoA), relies on a Unique Node List (UNL) of trusted validators.The…
In brief Bitcoin mining firms face structural risks beyond halvings or hardware cycles. Competition from AI data centers pressures miners’ access to cheap energy. Pool software, firmware, and contracts could redirect hash rate without touching Bitcoin’s code. Bitcoin miners are entering a period of new structural risk tied to power contracts, firmware systems, and hosting agreements as the industry approaches the new year, according to Matthew Case, an independent analyst who tracks mining economics.In a recent X post, Case described these pressures as forces operating beneath the surface while miners remain focused on the next halving (in 2028) and hardware…
Kraken, one of the longest-running crypto exchanges, has taken a major step toward going public, filing for a U.S. initial public offering (IPO) through its parent company, Payward, Inc. The draft S-1 registration statement was submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), formally placing Kraken in the IPO pipeline. The confidential filing follows an $800 million fundraising round completed on Tuesday, which valued Kraken at $20 billion. The round, raised over two months in two tranches, was led by major traditional finance investors, including Citadel, the hedge fund founded by Ken Griffin. Kraken had initially planned a $500 million…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum has been on a downward trend since hitting a new all-time high in August. However, this decline in price was hastened by the robust market crash on October 10. After the prolonged period of bearish performance and steady pullback, the altcoin is finally experiencing a complete reset of its liquidity. A Clean Slate For Price Action After Ethereum’s Liquidity Reset? As the ongoing market-wide volatility overshadows Ethereum, the leading altcoin and network has now reached a critical junction. Altcoin Vector, an institutional-grade reporter and signal provider…
Kraken filed to go public Wednesday, the cryptocurrency exchange said, just hours after announcing a massive fundraising round valuing the company at $20 billion.The company said it confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration form with the SEC to make an initial public offering (IPO) on Wall Street. Kraken said it has not yet determined the number of shares it plans to offer, nor the anticipated price range for those shares.It added that it expects the IPO to take place as soon as the SEC completes its review process, subject to market conditions.The move has been widely anticipated since March, when the SEC,…
Yesterday’s outage showed how dependent the modern web is on a handful of core infrastructure providers.In fact, it’s so dependent that a single configuration error made large parts of the internet totally unreachable for several hours.Many of us work in crypto because we understand the dangers of centralization in finance, but the events of yesterday were a clear reminder that centralization at the internet’s core is just as urgent a problem to solve.The obvious giants like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft run enormous chunks of cloud infrastructure.But equally critical are firms like Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, DigitalOcean, and CDN (servers that deliver…
In brief DeFi ecosystem 1inch has unveiled Aqua, a new shared liquidity protocol. Aqua enables different strategies to access the same tokens, in a bid to eliminate pain points facing liquidity providers, such as the need to split or lock funds across pools. Devs can access Aqua’s software development kit, libraries, and full documentation now, ahead of Aqua’s frontend launch in Q1 2026. DeFi ecosystem 1inch has unveiled a new shared liquidity protocol—with developers given early access.Billed as “the foundation for scalable, capital-efficient DeFi,” Aqua aims to eliminate some of the main pain points facing liquidity providers, by enabling different…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure La volatilità di mercato è tornata a farsi sentire e molti trader si chiedono se Bitcoin ($BTC) possa affrontare un nuovo calo significativo. Di solito l’attenzione si concentra quasi esclusivamente sul prezzo, ma spesso sono alcune debolezze interne della rete a generare ulteriori timori. Limiti come la lentezza delle conferme e le commissioni elevate possono accentuare la pressione nei momenti più critici. Nelle ultime 24 ore, Bitcoin è sceso sotto i 90.000 dollari e ha provocato liquidazioni per oltre 568 milioni di dollari, di cui la maggior…
The Bitcoin market is undergoing a significant transition, with traders aggressively positioning for a year-end close beneath the $90,000 threshold.This comes as the flagship digital asset briefly slid to a seven-month low of $89,970 on Nov. 18 before recovering to $91,526 as of press time.As a result, crypto traders’ sentiment has significantly shifted amid a convergence of structural capital flight and tightening macro conditions.Options desk pricing Bitcoin below $90,000The most definitive evidence of this bearish conviction comes from options flows and prediction markets.Crypto options platform Derive.xyz told CryptoSlate that traders are now pricing a 50% probability that Bitcoin will end…