What Happened to Base Mainnet? Base resumed block production on Friday after a brief mainnet stall, marking the second block production disruption for the Coinbase-incubated blockchain in two days. The latest incident began at 15:33 UTC, when an alert said the team was investigating an issue affecting Base Mainnet. The problem was identified shortly afterward,
Why Is Securitize Going Public Now? Securitize expects to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange next week after securing roughly $400 million through its merger with Cantor Equity Partners II, giving one of the largest tokenization infrastructure firms new public-market visibility as institutional interest in real-world assets continues to grow. The company said
Why Did Strategy Lose Its Bitcoin Premium? Strategy briefly lost the premium investors had assigned to its bitcoin holdings on Friday, with its enterprise mNAV slipping below 1 as pressure mounted on both the company’s common stock and its preferred share funding structure. The move came as Strategy’s common shares fell to a recent low
Why Is Ripple’s CEO Criticizing Strategy? Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse criticized Strategy and Chairman Michael Saylor’s approach to funding bitcoin purchases, arguing that the company’s reliance on financial structuring has distracted from the core driver of digital asset value. “Financial engineering does not drive long-term value,” Garlinghouse said in a Friday CNBC interview. “Long-term value
Solmate Infrastructure shares have collapsed after the company’s $300 million financing and pivot into a Solana-focused digital asset treasury, underscoring the risks facing public companies that attempted to replicate the crypto treasury model beyond Bitcoin. The company, formerly known as Brera Holdings, announced in September 2025 that it would rebrand as Solmate and raise $300
Base identified a consensus issue as the cause of a mainnet stall that temporarily halted block production on June 25, after an invalid block prevented the Coinbase-incubated Ethereum Layer 2 from advancing beyond block 47,806,542. According to Base’s official status updates, mainnet block production became unhealthy at 16:03 UTC, prompting the team to investigate an
BitGo is cutting nearly 15% of its workforce as the crypto custody and infrastructure company redirects resources toward stablecoins, settlement, trading and AI-powered infrastructure. Chief Executive Mike Belshe announced the workforce reduction in a company update, describing the layoffs as a one-time action tied to changes in the crypto ecosystem and BitGo’s own strategic priorities.
The U.S. government has reportedly asked OpenAI to delay a broad release of GPT-5.6 and instead roll out access through a staggered preview process, a move that could mark one of the most direct federal interventions yet in the deployment of a frontier artificial intelligence model. The request was reported by The Information and cited
U.S. spot crypto exchange-traded funds recorded $777.5 million in combined net outflows on June 25, as redemptions accelerated across Bitcoin products and selling pressure extended into Ether and Solana funds. Spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $691.7 million in net outflows, marking a deeper negative session after $469.0 million in redemptions on June 24. BlackRock’s IBIT led
Zero Hash has launched Staking-as-a-Service for financial institutions, allowing banks, brokerages and fintech platforms to embed cryptocurrency staking directly into their existing applications through a single API integration. Interactive Brokers, Public and BitMart will become the first launch partners, marking another step in the convergence of traditional financial platforms and digital assets. The new infrastructure