Guides What Is Coinbase’s x402 Protocol? Coinbase's x402 protocol embeds stablecoin payments directly into HTTP requests, letting AI agents pay for APIs, data, and compute without human intervention. Here's how it works and why Stripe, Cloudflare, and others are backing it. By Sonia Paganuzzi • Mar 27, 2026 • 10 min
Ethereum Eureka Labs Raises $6.7M To Bring ‘Programmable Blocks’ To Ethereum Block Building Eureka Labs has raised $6.7 million in a seed round to introduce “programmable blocks” on Ethereum, adding logic at the block construction layer to enable new execution capabilities. By Sonia Paganuzzi • Mar 27, 2026 • 3 min
Markets Finance Fannie Mae Now Accepts Crypto-Backed Mortgages Through Coinbase and Better Fannie Mae is now backing mortgages funded by crypto-collateralised loans, marking the first time a government-supported entity has accepted bitcoin and USDC in mainstream housing finance. By Sonia Paganuzzi • Mar 27, 2026 • 4 min
Deep Dives Finance DTCC Tokenisation Explained: How It Works and Why It Matters DTCC has SEC clearance to tokenise US Treasuries, ETFs, and Russell 1000 equities on the Canton Network. Here's how the service works, who's involved, and why it could reshape how securities move globally. By Sonia Paganuzzi • Mar 26, 2026 • 11 min
Finance Markets Visa Takes First Blockchain Governance Role on Canton Network Visa has joined the Canton Network as a Super Validator, its first blockchain governance role. The network already processes $9 trillion in monthly volume with DTCC, JPMorgan, and Goldman Sachs on board. By Sonia Paganuzzi • Mar 26, 2026 • 3 min
Bitcoin Iran's Military Now Runs 70% of Its Bitcoin Mining Operations Iran now accounts for 6-8% of global Bitcoin hashrate, with the IRGC running roughly 70% of operations. US-Israeli strikes on energy infrastructure have since knocked 100 EH/s off the network. By Sonia Paganuzzi • Mar 26, 2026 • 3 min
Markets CZ Says 99% of Binance Listing Offers Are Scams and He'll Blacklist Anyone Caught Changpeng Zhao warns that almost every Binance listing offer is a scam, with fraudsters using fake connections, urgency and upfront fees to target smaller crypto projects. By Sonia Paganuzzi • Mar 25, 2026 • 4 min
Altcoins BlackRock Says AI Will Eclipse Altcoins in Crypto's Next Phase BlackRock's Robbie Mitchnick says institutional clients have written off most altcoins and are betting on AI as the force that gives crypto its next real use case. The firm sees BTC and ETH as the only assets that matter, and crypto itself as the money layer for an AI-driven economy. By Sonia Paganuzzi • Mar 25, 2026 • 3 min
Altcoins TRON DAO’s $1B AI Pivot: Can $80B in USDT Win the Agentic Economy? TRON DAO has scaled its AI development fund tenfold to $1 billion, shifting focus from AI-assisted tools to full agentic infrastructure built on top of its stablecoin-heavy network. By Sonia Paganuzzi • Mar 25, 2026 • 4 min
Altcoins Markets Deep Dives Guides Altcoins Explained: A Straight-Talking Guide to Everything Beyond Bitcoin Altcoins cover everything from billion-dollar smart contract platforms to tokens minted five minutes ago. This guide breaks down the categories, the risks, and the five questions worth asking before you buy anything. By Sonia Paganuzzi • Mar 24, 2026 • 12 min
Markets Balancer Labs Is Shutting Down Its Current Structure After Months of Financial Fallout Balancer Labs is proposing to gut its current operating model after a November exploit accelerated months of decline, dropping TVL from $800 million to under $160 million. CEO Marcus Hardt wants to end BAL emissions, shrink the team, and rebuild the protocol from its core. By Sonia Paganuzzi • Mar 24, 2026 • 4 min
Markets Resolv Labs Hack: How a Compromised Key Drained $25 Million and Crashed the USR Stablecoin Resolv Labs lost $25M after an attacker exploited a stolen key to mint 80 million unbacked stablecoins. USR crashed 97% in 17 minutes. Here's what we know so far. By Sonia Paganuzzi • Mar 24, 2026 • 5 min
Ethereum Eureka Labs Raises $6.7M To Bring ‘Programmable Blocks’ To Ethereum Block Building Sonia Paganuzzi 3 min
Markets Finance Fannie Mae Now Accepts Crypto-Backed Mortgages Through Coinbase and Better Sonia Paganuzzi 4 min
Deep Dives Finance DTCC Tokenisation Explained: How It Works and Why It Matters Sonia Paganuzzi 11 min
Markets CZ Says 99% of Binance Listing Offers Are Scams and He'll Blacklist Anyone Caught Sonia Paganuzzi 4 min
