“cirBTC is designed to provide institutions with a highly secure and neutral version of wrapped BTC,” Circle said on its website.The token will be backed 1:1 by bitcoin and first issued on the Ethereum mainnet and Arc Layer 1, which is incubated by Circle.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin detailed his local-first AI stack in a new blog post, including custom tools that rely on human approval.

While platforms like dYdX and GMX exist, neither has matched Hyperliquid’s trajectory in terms of volume growth or product expansion.The following is excerpted from The Block’s Data and Insights newsletter.

The CFTC accused the state, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, and its gaming officials of trying to shut down “federally regulated designated contract markets.”Thursday’s complaint marks the first time the CFTC has explicitly sued a state over prediction-market jurisdiction

The price of TAO nearly doubled in March, as the market is catching up to a realization of what the Bittensor network can do.The following is excerpted from The Block’s Data and Insights newsletter.

The new group will steward an open standard for embedding payments into web interactions.

Gnosis and Zisk’s Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ) emerged directly from a GnosisDAO R&D mandate to explore turning Gnosis Chain into a natively integrated Ethereum layer‑2.The framework, co‑funded by the Ethereum Foundation and unveiled at EthCC 2026, aims to fix Ethereum’s “fragmentation problem” by enabling synchronous composability across L2s while keeping ETH as the core gas and settlement asset.The process marks a new phase in on‑chain governance, with DAOs effectively voting on the technical and economic destiny of entire chains, not just on parameter tweaks.

BitGo Mint allows institutional clients to mint, redeem, and manage stablecoins and other digital assets.The new service kicks off offering minting and redemption for World Liberty’s USD1 and SoFiUSD.

A blockchain security expert compared Drift’s lapse in security to Ethereum network Ronin's $625 million loss in 2022.

The rating leans heavily on Ripple’s balance sheet of $57 billion in cash and XRP holdings.Kroll sees Ripple Prime’s expansion into new products like equity prime brokerage and swaps as key to improving diversification.

Jonathan, a nearly 200-year-old tortoise, was widely mourned Wednesday—but his purported demise was a hoax, and there's a crypto connection.

At TezDev 2026 in Cannes, “Art on Tezos” staged an immersive, projection-mapped environment that framed on-chain work as a living model for digital culture.Speakers highlighted how Tezos lowers costs and barriers so artists from Kurdistan, Africa and South America can build sustainable practices and even escape repression.Trilitech’s planned Tezos-powered exhibition at HEK Basel signals that on-chain art is moving deeper into museum ecosystems, compressing photography’s century-long legitimation curve.

X Games CEO Jeremy Bloom said in an interview that he wants to keep evolving the brand and building alongside “the Gen Zs, the middle school kids, the high school kids, and college kids.”Crypto companies eager to attract new users, and MoonPay in particular, have been sponsoring sports teams across various leagues for years.

Carlos Domingo explains how tokenized equities, regulatory clarity, and major partnerships like NYSE are pushing blockchain into mainstream finance.