Since Paul Sztorc’s ECX hard fork kicked off, more than 25,092 blocks have been mined during the Alpha phase, and block times have swung wildly. The network has already chewed through several difficulty adjustments, with some delivering massive upward jolts. ECX Blasts Through 25,000 Blocks in 13 Hours Bitcoin’s latest fork has kicked off its […]
This week, bitcoin awoke from its slumber, springing out of bed. Going in, bitcoin volatility was as compressed as it has been in a decade, with BVOL 7D at 2.82, the sixth-lowest reading in ten years, described at the time as a “historically stretched elastic band.” Fidelity’s Jurrien Timmer, writing days before the move, had […]
Stablecoins promise a constant $1, yet USDC has traded at $0.87, Tether’s USDT at $0.88, and Terra’s UST collapsed to virtually zero in a crash that erased roughly $40 billion. As recently as November 2025, a DeFi stablecoin called xUSD lost more than half its value in a single day. The Peg Is a Promise, […]
Metaverse platform The Sandbox confirmed recently that an exploited bridge let an attacker mint unbacked SAND on Base and BNB Smart Chain, prompting an immediate shutdown. Exploit Hits Base and BSC Bridges Sandbox, the metaverse gaming platform behind the SAND token, contained a vulnerability affecting its cross-chain bridges on Base and BNB Smart Chain (BSC). […]
Bitcoin has surged roughly $10,000 over the past week, breaking above $77,000 for the first time since May after the U.S. Treasury doubled its long-dated bond buybacks. The rally briefly touched $79,500 yesterday, wiping out billions in short bets along the way. The Treasury Trigger Bitcoin had spent six weeks pinned between $60,000 and $65,000 […]
Zcash (ZEC) jumped 47.1% in 24 hours to lead a broad altcoin rally on August 22, with bitcoin cash, cardano, dogecoin and chainlink all posting double-digit gains as bond buybacks and Clarity Act optimism lifted the wider crypto market. Zcash Extends Its 2026 Breakout Multiple altcoins rallied over the past 24 hours, with privacy coin […]
Factblock CEO and Korea Blockchain Week organizer Andrew Park outlines South Korea’s transition from a retail-driven crypto market to an institutional digital finance hub. However, he believes institutional adoption relies on resolving unglamorous back-office realities supported by new frameworks for digital asset access. From Retail Craze to Institutional Frontier For years, the global crypto ecosystem […]