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Ethereum's network is showing signs of trouble. Transaction numbers have hit their lowest point in five months

Marathon Digital, a Bitcoin mining outfit, has kicked off a pilot project in Utah. It's using methane gas from landfill waste to power its mining operations

XRP's price suddenly shot up by over 20% on Wednesday. It reached $0.61

Andrena, a wireless internet provider, has raised $18 million. The funding will fuel its decentralized internet project on Solana

Miner profitability has plunged to unprecedented lows. Blocksbridge, a storage infrastructure firm, reports that miner hashprice has dipped below $36 per petahash per second (PH/s)

Metaplanet, a listed Japanese investment firm, has nabbed a ¥1 billion loan to buy more Bitcoin. The move comes hot on the heels of their plan to raise ¥10.08 billion through a stock rights offering

Binance, the top dog in crypto trading, has pulled off a major security coup. They've managed to recover or freeze a whopping $73 million in stolen funds this year

Aave DAO and Trident Digital have teamed up to deploy a $100m onchain fixed-yield loan

Brazil's securities watchdog has given the thumbs up to a spot Solana exchange-traded fund (ETF)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the Lebanese-American finance author, has thrown cold water on Bitcoin's status as a hedge against market crashes