Author: Jeremy Ryan

Bitcoin mining companies expanding into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing face sharply different borrowing costs as lenders scrutinize large-scale data center projects, adding to the industry’s growing financing challenges.According to the latest Miner Weekly newsletter from BlocksBridge Consulting, securing major AI customers has only been part of the challenge for miners. Companies must also raise billions of dollars to purchase computing equipment, build facilities and secure the power infrastructure needed to fulfill their contracts.“[B]ig lenders have become more selective about data center loans and decisions increasingly depend on the customer, the contract and the path to completion,” BlocksBridge said.IREN, which…

Every year since January 2019, teams from the Ethereum Foundation have spent an afternoon or two on r/ethereum answering questions from the community. The format hasn’t really changed: one thread, technical debates, detailed explanations, and community members asking whatever is on their mind. By now it is a tradition, and one of the more direct ways for the broader Ethereum community to hear from the people working on Ethereum’s core development. The next session takes place on September 16th, with researchers and devs from the Protocol cluster answering your questions. The Glamsterdam hard fork is in public testing, the scope…

Enjoyed this article? Share it with your friends! ChangeNOW, a reputable crypto exchange platform that has spent nearly a decade championing user-controlled crypto assets, has officially opened its new regional headquarters in the heart of Dubai’s business district. This expansion marks a new chapter in the company’s history, transitioning from a global service provider to a localized, hands-on partner in the Arab world’s most ambitious tech market. While much of the global crypto landscape has spent the last year reacting to economic volatility, ChangeNOW’s entry into Dubai is a proactive, long-term play. The company considers the UAE as a global…

Aave’s proposed USDG rollover would let borrowers carry their stablecoin debt into a new fixed-yield USDG position, but the replacement collateral currently yields less than three quoted borrowing rates. That leaves leverage and separately administered rewards central to whether extending the trade makes financial sense.The proposal concerns Pendle principal tokens, or PTs, on the X Layer network: holders of the token maturing Oct. 29 would move into a replacement maturing Feb. 25, 2027. In its Oct. 8 assessment, risk provider LlamaRisk said the February token’s on-chain yield alone fell short of USDT0, USDC and USDG borrowing costs. GHO was the…

Reason to trust Strict editorial policy that focuses on accuracy, relevance, and impartiality Created by industry experts and meticulously reviewed The highest standards in reporting and publishing Strict editorial policy that focuses on accuracy, relevance, and impartiality Morbi pretium leo et nisl aliquam mollis. Quisque arcu lorem, ultricies quis pellentesque nec, ullamcorper eu odio. TL;DR: Project Eleven and Quantus plan to integrate the Quantus Network with Strongpoint, Project Eleven’s institutional custody platform for post-quantum blockchain assets. Quantus has joined as a development partner, with support targeted for the first quarter of 2027. Crypto custody usually assumes the cryptography protecting today’s…

Splinterlands is a free-to-start digital trading card game where you draft a team of up to six cards and the battle then plays out on its own in two or three minutes. You can learn it without spending anything, and the one purchase that changes what you can do is the Summoner’s Spellbook, a one-time $10 upgrade. This guide walks through how a new account works in October 2026, including the Modern bracket system that went live at the end of September. Risk note: Splinterlands cards and tokens (DEC, SPS) are crypto assets whose prices can fall sharply. Play it…

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Life Insurer Meanwhile Raises $37.5M as Wealthy Families Look to Pass On Their BTC Meanwhile, the first life insurer licensed to operate entirely in Bitcoin, has raised $37.5 million in new funding from its existing investors, the company announced. Bain Capital Crypto led the round, with participation from Haun Ventures, Framework Ventures, Pantera Capital, Apollo, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures and Morgan Creek Digital. The raise brings Meanwhile’s total funding to more than $180 million. Sam Altman is also among its backers. The company said the round follows a surge in demand for its Bitcoin life insurance policies…

No XRP creation Centralization claims The XRP Ledger Foundation has defended its decision to circumvent the standard XRP Ledger amendment process due to a critical security vulnerability that could have seen trillions of XRP minted by malicious actors. The foundation has also made it clear that no unauthorized XRP was minted, and it has clarified some misconceptions regarding the recently uncovered vulnerability, which could have put the entire $94 billion XRP market cap in jeopardy.The vulnerability could have allowed the XRP fixed supply cap to be bypassed, and the XRP Ledger Foundation confirmed that this was indeed the case and that the now-fixed…

Ledger has confirmed an unauthorized hardware implant in one affected customer’s wallet as independent investigators estimate $93.2 million in suspected cryptocurrency thefts.In an Oct. 10 statement, the hardware wallet manufacturer said the discovery involved a device belonging to one of the affected users. It added that CryptoBilis, an authorized reseller operating in Southeast Asia, had suspended sales of all hardware wallet inventory pending the investigation’s conclusion.The investigation began after customers reported losing cryptocurrency after buying Ledger devices from the reseller. Ledger has not said how many devices were modified or established that the implant caused all the reported losses.Ledger said…

A million wallets now hold tokenized stocks on Solana. September brought roughly $4.4 billion in tokenized-stock trading volume, and supply reached $684 million, up 47% over three weeks. On September 17, the SEC issued a five-year order letting tokenized stocks trade in the U.S. on public, permissionless networks, without the venue registering as a stock exchange. Solana has hosted more than half of all tokenized equity volume in 2026. Payments infrastructure moved closer to banks. Column integrated stablecoins into its banking core, so businesses convert between USDC, USDT and dollars on one ledger alongside ACH, wires, SWIFT and real-time payments.…