Samsung Electronics Co. is moving to bring stablecoins directly into Samsung Wallet, potentially giving blockchain-based dollars a distribution channel spanning hundreds of millions of Galaxy devices. Read More… about Samsung targets stablecoin distribution across hundreds of millions of Galaxy phones
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Strategy reports $8.2 billion second-quarter loss on bitcoin valuation
Strategy Inc. reported a net loss of $8.2 billion for the second quarter, as changes in the market value of its Bitcoin holdings weighed on earnings under fair-value accounting rules. The company, which has transformed itself from an enterprise software provider into the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin, said it continues to view the cryptocurrency as its primary treasury reserve asset. According to its quarterly results, Strategy held approximately 843,775 Bitcoin at the end of the reporting period. Read More… about Strategy reports $8.2 billion second-quarter loss on bitcoin valuation
The hardware wallet turns twelve: how two people in a Prague hackerspace invented the industry
Twelve years ago there was no such thing as a hardware wallet. To hold your own Bitcoin safely you needed a spare computer, a working knowledge of Linux, and the nerve to trust a setup you had wired together yourself. Most people did not have all three. They left their coins on exchanges and hoped for the best. Read More… about The hardware wallet turns twelve: how two people in a Prague hackerspace invented the industry
BitMEX to shut down after 11 years as crypto competition intensifies
BitMEX, one of the cryptocurrency industry’s earliest derivatives exchanges, will cease operations by Sept. 23, bringing to a close an 11-year run that helped shape the market for leveraged digital-asset trading. Read More… about BitMEX to shut down after 11 years as crypto competition intensifies
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AVAX & POL Lost Over 95% From Their Highs. Is BlockDAG a Smarter Presale Bet for 2026?
Many people in crypto think older tokens are safer choices than buying something during its early fundraising period. Look closely at Avalanche and Polygon to see why this idea might fail. Both projects led the market during the previous bull run with great technology and big investor interest. Read More… about AVAX & POL Lost Over 95% From Their Highs. Is BlockDAG a Smarter Presale Bet for 2026?
Solana in 2026: Speed, Fees, and Two Upgrades That Could Change Everything
The Numbers That Actually Matter Right Now
Solana closed Q2 2026 without a single hour of downtime. That marks the ninth consecutive quarter of clean network health, a streak that would have seemed implausible to anyone who watched the chain go dark repeatedly in 2022. Median slot duration held at the 400-millisecond target for the entire quarter, and Galaxy Research confirmed that non-vote throughput stayed in the low thousands of TPS throughout the period. For anyone tracking crypto news today across multiple chains, that consistency is the headline, not any single metric. Platforms built on speed, from high-frequency DeFi protocols to crypto betting sites, have quietly made Solana their default settlement layer precisely because of this reliability. Read More… about Solana in 2026: Speed, Fees, and Two Upgrades That Could Change Everything
How Crypto Loyalty Tokens Mirror Gaming Perks
Ask a DeFi user why they keep their assets parked in a particular liquidity pool, and the answer often has less to do with yields than with the little badges, tiers, and points stacking up on the screen. Loyalty tokens have quietly become one of the most powerful hooks in the entire crypto economy. Protocols like Curve hand out veCRV to those who lock their tokens for the long haul. Uniswap experimented with airdrops that rewarded early users with governance clout. GMX built a whole ecosystem around escrowed tokens and multiplier points that grow the longer someone stays loyal. It turns out that the psychology driving all of this isn’t unique to blockchain at all — it’s the same engine behind the leaderboard climbs and tiered perks that keep people entertained across the digital leisure world. Read More… about How Crypto Loyalty Tokens Mirror Gaming Perks
Why GameFi Copies the Carrot-Collecting Loop
Ask any blockchain game designer what keeps a player coming back for a fifth session, and the answer rarely involves complicated tokenomics or staking yields. More often, it comes down to a simple, almost primal urge: grab the shiny thing on the screen. GameFi titles built on Ethereum, Polygon, and Immutable have spent years wrapping economic layers around their loops, but strip away the wallets and the mint prices, and many of them run on the same tight, satisfying rhythm that made casual games a phenomenon in the first place. Collect, dodge, repeat. That formula didn’t come from crypto. It came from the arcade. Read More… about Why GameFi Copies the Carrot-Collecting Loop