Author: Kryptonews

Crypto security nonprofit Security Alliance has received a sponsorship from the Ethereum Foundation as it ramps up efforts to curb crypto drainers and other attack vectors targeting Ethereum users. Summary The Ethereum Foundation is sponsoring a SEAL security engineer to track and neutralize crypto drainers targeting Ethereum users. Drainer-related thefts fell to $84 million in 2025, the lowest on record, according to data cited by SEAL. According to SEAL, the Ethereum Foundation has sponsored a security engineer through the nonprofit’s “Trillion Dollar Security” initiative after it reached out to the foundation late last year. In line with SEAL’s objective, the…

Online sports betting is moving at breakneck speed, and only platforms that combine innovation, reliability, and smart risk management are capturing attention. DraftKings continues to serve the U.S. market with broad sports coverage, while Caesars mixes entertainment with wagering to engage the audience. As competition intensifies, Spartans is changing how players experience betting, introducing systems that reward consistency while minimizing risk. Its 33% CashRake provides a built-in edge, mathematically designed to reward consistent play and make every wager more strategic. By emphasizing performance, scalability, and adoption trends, Spartans is raising the bar in leading sports betting, delivering a sophisticated, resilient, and…

Ripple has enabled staking for Ethereum and Solana within its institutional custody business, expanding beyond safekeeping to include asset servicing features that large investors increasingly consider standard.The new capability, delivered through a partnership with staking infrastructure provider Figment, enables Ripple Custody clients to offer staking on major proof-of-stake networks without setting up validator infrastructure.This service provides operational simplicity with institutional controls, a combination aimed at banks, custodians, and regulated asset managers that want staking yield but do not want staking operations to sit outside their governance perimeter.The move also highlights a structural difference between XRP and the proof-of-stake assets institutions…

Advertisements for the Super Bowl — the championship game of American football — are some of the most watched and most expensive.The game on Sunday boasted some 127 million viewers, making it the most-viewed sporting match of the year in the US, as well as the most-watched Super Bowl of all time.Advertisers pay a premium for the limited number of commercial spots. Some companies shelled out as much as $4 million for a 30-second slot. The high sticker price, as well as the massive audience, drives companies to make their advertisements unique.But tech industry observers have noted one particular trend…

Bitcoin’s long-standing narrative as “digital gold” is being put to the test as its recent price action increasingly resembles that of a high-risk growth asset rather than a traditional safe haven, according to new research from Grayscale.Report author Zach Pandl said on Tuesday that while Grayscale still views Bitcoin (BTC) as a long-term store of value due to its fixed supply and independence from central banking authorities, recent market behavior suggests otherwise.“Bitcoin’s short-term price movements have not been tightly correlated with gold or other precious metals,” Pandl wrote, pointing to record rallies in bullion and silver prices.Instead, the analysis found…

Prediction market platform Polymarket filed a federal lawsuit against Massachusetts regulators on Monday, seeking to block state restrictions on its operations. The legal action comes as the state moves to ban rival platform Kalshi from offering sports prediction markets, setting the stage for a jurisdictional battle between state gambling laws and federal oversight. This battle is crucial for prediction market platforms. During Super Bowl LX, prediction markets (including Kalshi and Robinhood) traded approximately $1.5 billion, nearly matching the $1.76 billion handle of traditional sportsbooks. Kalshi alone registered over $500 million in volume. Trading Volume During Super Bowl Source: Kalshi DISCOVER: Upcoming Coinbase…

The upcoming iteration of Counterpublic, a triennial staged in St. Louis, Missouri, has announced the exhibition’s title and a number of its main venues around the Gateway City. The 2026 show will run September 12 to December 12. For their version of Counterpublic, the five-person curatorial team—consisting of Jordan Carter, Raphael Fonseca, Stefanie Hessler, Nora N. Khan, and Wanda Nanibush—chose “Coyote Time” as the title and theme. They have commissioned 50 artists to make new work for the exhibition; the full artist list will be announced at a later date. Related Articles A commission by Los Angeles–based artist Alice Bucknell…

Verifying Satoshi Nakamoto: A matter of math, not media From time to time, individuals claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator. Such announcements generate headlines, spark heated debates and trigger instant skepticism. Yet after years of assertions, lawsuits, leaked files and media interviews, no claim has been backed by definitive proof.The reason is simple. Proving someone is Satoshi is not a matter of storytelling, credentials or courtroom victories. It is a cryptographic problem governed by unforgiving rules.Nakamoto built Bitcoin (BTC) to function as a peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency without requiring trust in people. It is widely assumed that Satoshi Nakamoto…

Tether Investments, the investment arm of the leading stablecoin issuer, has made a strategic investment in LayerZero Labs, which develops an interoperability protocol called LayerZero.The move is essentially a bet on the technology underpinning USDt0, a blockchain-agnostic version of Tether’s dollar-pegged token that has moved over $70 billion across blockchains in less than a year, according to a press release the company shared.LayerZero’s infrastructure enables cryptocurrencies to flow across different blockchains without fragmentation or illiquidity. That allows developers building financial tools to rely on stablecoins without getting their funds locked in a single network.That same architecture also supports more experimental…

Ethereum’s prolonged weakness has pushed key on-chain valuation metrics into territory historically associated with major market bottoms. This has prompted analysts to debate whether ETH is approaching a long-term inflection point or if further downside still lies ahead. Summary Ethereum price prediction debates are intensifying as MVRV metrics show ETH trading at levels historically associated with major market bottoms. Analyst Michaël van de Poppe says Ethereum appears deeply undervalued, citing similarities to past crash periods that later delivered strong recoveries. On-chain analyst Jao Wedson cautions that while capitulation is underway, historical data suggests further downside is still possible before a…