Author: Kryptonews

The zkEVM ecosystem spent a year sprinting on latency. Proving time for an Ethereum block collapsed from 16 minutes to 16 seconds, costs dropped 45-fold, and participating zkVMs now prove 99% of mainnet blocks in under 10 seconds on target hardware.The Ethereum Foundation (EF) declared victory on Dec. 18: real-time proving works. The performance bottlenecks are cleared. Now the real work starts, because speed without soundness is a liability, not an asset, and the math under many STARK-based zkEVMs has been quietly breaking for months.In July, the EF set a formal target for “real-time proving” that bundled latency, hardware, energy,…

The Ethereum ecosystem underwent something of a short revival in 2025. Early in the year, as many major cryptocurrencies surged to fresh all-time highs, ether lagged behind. Some in the community pointed fingers at Ethereum Foundation’s (EF) leadership, claiming the organization hadn’t done enough to reinvigorate the network’s momentum.This feature is a part of CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2025 list.While the EF doesn’t control Ethereum’s technical roadmap, it remains a central force in supporting the developers and teams who do. So when the organization announced in February that they had tapped two new leaders to guide the EF into its next phase,…

In brief A 23-year-old Brooklynite was charged with a $16 million phishing scheme. Prosecutors allege that he stole the funds from approximately 100 Coinbase users. Last year, ZachXBT published an investigation into the individual. Prosecutors in Brooklyn said on Friday that a 23-year-old resident, Ronald Spektor, was charged with stealing $16 million in cryptocurrency from approximately 100 Coinbase users.The individual, who went by “lolimfeelingevil” online, was allegedly behind a phishing and social engineering scheme. Pretending to be a Coinbase representative, Spektor would convince users to send cryptocurrency to accounts he controlled, prosecutors said.Prosecutors said that Spektor motivated victims by claiming…

Loopring price action is indicating a potential move to the upside as flagged by market analyst Crypto Patel. Loopring (LRC) is a cryptocurrency that utilizes zkRollup technology to provide users with fast, low-cost trading and payments on the Ethereum network and multiple blockchain networks. LRC’s price, which currently stands at $0.05641, has been down 2.2% and 3.4% over the past week and month, a reflection of the downtrend in the broader crypto market. As of today, December 19, 2025, most cryptocurrency markets are trading under selling pressure, confirmed by the latest prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum, which currently hover at…

What is the metaverse? If you want to know about immersive spaces where the digital and real worlds merge, you’ve come to the right place. In this article, we’ll walk you through the fundamentals of the metaverse, its history, and the digital technologies driving it. We’ll also provide insights into its benefits, risks, and future outlook, including top metaverse companies and projects.What is the Metaverse?The word “metaverse” represents 3D-enabled virtual spaces where you can socialize, work, play, explore, create, learn, and shop as an avatar. A metaverse avatar is a unique, personalized, and digital representation of your identity. It looks…

The following is a guest post and opinion from Volodymyr Nosov, Founder and President at W Group, CEO at WhiteBIT.For the second consecutive month, the cryptocurrency market has been in decline. A nearly 30% correction since early October — roughly $1.2 trillion in market capitalization — raises questions about the depth of this downturn and what is driving it.To emphasize from the outset: the current drop is not a crisis but a temporary correction. In traditional financial systems, corrections are often much deeper and do not trigger excessive panic. The crypto market is significantly younger — many assets have existed…

A single transaction error led to one of the largest onchain losses seen this year, after a user mistakenly sent nearly $50 million in USDt to a scam address in a classic address poisoning attack.According to onchain investigator Web3 Antivirus, the victim lost 49,999,950 USDt (USDT) after copying a malicious wallet address from their transaction history. Address poisoning scams rely on look-alike wallet addresses being inserted into a victim’s transaction history via small transfers. When victims later copy an address from their transaction history, they may unknowingly select the scammer’s lookalike address instead of the intended recipient.Onchain data shows the…

The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) at Columbia College Chicago will host an exhibition next year titled “If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground” and guest curated by leading photography scholar and Harvard professor Sarah Lewis. Opening September 3, “If Emmett Till Lived” will feature works from MoCP’s permanent collection as a way to “visualize the life Emmett Till might have lived had he not been murdered in an act of racial violence in 1955,” according to a release. Related Articles The exhibition will feature an intergenerational selection of 70 photographers from various backgrounds. Among those included are 20th-century…

Veteran Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr is at the forefront of one of the most hotly-discussed debates in cryptocurrency — what the original blockchain network should be used for.The advent of the Ordinals protocol in 2023, which allowed a form of NFTs to be minted on Bitcoin, and Runes a year later, which did something similar for fungible tokens, prompted calls from a number of voices — few as prominent as Dashjr’s — that they bring unnecessary spam to the Bitcoin network, distracting it from its core mission.This feature is a part of CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2025 list.Dashjr’s resume includes helping fix Bitcoin’s accidental…

CC and UNI are also substantial gainers. Despite the improving inflation data in the United States, bitcoin’s price has failed to capitalize and was stopped at $89,500 on Thursday. Most altcoins have turned green today. Ethereum has neared $3,000, while XRP has bounced above the crucial $1.90 support. More gains are evident from the likes of ZEC, HYPE, CRO, UNI, and CC. BTC Defends $88K Support Following the two consecutive rejections at $94,500 last week, bitcoin’s price started to correct almost immediately, dropping to $90,000 over the previous weekend. Although it remained there for nearly 48 hours, the bears…