For the first time ever, bitcoin’s (BTC) hashrate hit 1 zettahash (1 ZH/s) on Friday, according to veri from Glassnode. The previous record was set on Jan. 31, when the network hit 975 exahashes per second (EH/s). Bitcoin first reached 1 EH/s in …

A crypto market sell-off went from bad to brutal in European morning hours Monday as bitcoin pierced the $75,000 level — extending losses on major tokens to nearly 20%. Tokens XRP, solana (SOL), and dogecoin (DOGE) plunged over 5% in the hours ahead …

It started with a noisy desk. The desk was a wooden cubicle in a lab at Northumbria University, in northern England, where a young AI researcher began his PhD track. This was in 2015. The researcher was Ben Fielding, who had built a large machine …

The first quarter of 2025 tells a clear story about DeFi’s evolution. While yields across major lending platforms have compressed significantly, innovation at the market’s edges demonstrates DeFi’s continued maturation and growth. The Great Yield …

Ether (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency, has dropped 39% this year relative to bitcoin (BTC), the largest, taking the ratio between the two to the lowest in almost five years. At the current level, 1 ETH is the equivalent of 0.02191 BTC. That …

Solana validators are voting on a major cut to SOL’s staking rewards.

Most of these are covered calls, Deribit’s Asia business development head said.

Tom Lee sees bitcoin finishing the year at over $150,000 and attributes the current drawdown to cyclical behavior.

The U.S. digital assets exchange made a public-records request to add up what the regulator spent on crypto cases in recent years, including against Coinbase.

The Deribit-listed $100K strike call has seen the biggest jump in open interest in the past 24 hours.