Ethereum

NUVA, co-developed by Animoca Brands and Nuva Labs, has linked $19 billion of Figure Technologies' tokenised assets — including a $18.4 billion HELOC portfolio — to Ethereum DeFi through two new products: nvYLDS and nvPRIME.

Base announced on May 4 that its Azul upgrade would integrate Succinct's SP1 zero-knowledge prover alongside its existing TEE proof system, with mainnet activation planned for May 13. The change cuts withdrawal finality from a multi-day challenge window to roughly one day — and makes Base the largest single Ethereum operator to put ZK proofs in production.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko told Ethereum Layer 2 users to "abandon all hope" of being quantum-safe over the weekend, citing fresh production hardening on Solana's Falcon-512 verification suite. The dig is more than tribal — the cryptographic argument has merit.

Bitcoin's first push above $80,000 since January lasted only hours. A report by Iran's Fars news agency that two Iranian missiles had hit a US patrol boat near the Strait of Hormuz reversed the move; CENTCOM denied any ship was hit, but the price still hasn't recovered.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies disclosed on May 4 that it acquired 101,745 ether last week, taking its treasury to 5.18 million ETH and pushing total holdings to $13.1 billion. Chairman Tom Lee used the announcement to declare that crypto spring had commenced.

Bitmine moved roughly $320 million worth of ether into staking over 48 hours, putting more than 70 per cent of its nearly five million ETH hoard to work generating yield — and positioning itself to earn $330 million a year from validator rewards alone.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies bought 101,627 ether last week — its largest weekly purchase of 2026 — bringing its total holdings to 4.97 million ETH and within striking distance of its stated goal of controlling 5 per cent of Ethereum's circulating supply.

Lido DAO transferred the first $1.81 million tranche of its $20 million LDO buyback programme on Wednesday, routing tokens through centralised exchanges in a bid to retire up to 8 per cent of the circulating supply at historically depressed prices.

The foundation's new subsidy programme covers up to 30 per cent of audit costs for any Ethereum mainnet team, with more than 20 firms including Certora, Quantstamp and Spearbit ready to take on the work.

America's largest brokerage by client assets has opened a waitlist for direct bitcoin and ether trading through a new Schwab Crypto account, targeting a limited Q2 rollout before broader availability later in 2026.

The SEC faced a March 27, 2026, deadline for final decisions on 91 pending cryptocurrency ETF applications covering 24 different tokens.

The SEC and CFTC issued joint interpretive guidance on March 17, 2026, classifying 16 cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin and Ethereum as digital commodities.

Hackers stole 401,347 ETH from Bybit in the largest cryptocurrency theft on record

The total cryptocurrency market capitalization surged to $3.7 trillion on January 20, 2025, marking an all-time record and shattering the previous peak of $3 trillion set in November 2021.

Ink, Kraken's Ethereum Layer 2 network built on Optimism's OP Stack, processed more than one million transactions within 24 hours of its mainnet going live on December 16.

Polygon migrated from the MATIC token to the POL governance token on September 4, 2023, completing a major rebranding initiative under the new Polygon Labs organizational structure.

PayPal launched its USD stablecoin (PYUSD) on August 7, 2023, marking the first major traditional finance firm to issue its own token on public blockchains.

Ethereum's Shapella upgrade activated on April 12, 2023, enabling validators to withdraw staked ETH for the first time since the Beacon Chain launch.

ConsenSys has announced significant workforce reductions affecting up to 600 employees, representing approximately 50 percent of its total staff as the Ethereum-focused studio restructures operations.

The Gemini Trust Company, founded by the Winklevoss twins, has launched the Gemini Dollar stablecoin following regulatory approval from the New York Department of Financial Services.

CryptoKitties, a blockchain-based collectible game, congested the Ethereum network with unprecedented transaction volumes during its launch in December 2017, consuming 25 percent of network capacity.

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has publicly warned that the initial coin offering market is experiencing unsustainable bubble conditions with most projects destined to fail.