Chainlink is consolidating its position as the leading provider of blockchain data infrastructure, with the company saying it now secures the majority of oracle-backed value across many of the industry’s largest networks. The latest figures shared by Chainlink show particularly strong penetration on Ethereum, where it says it secures more than 80% of the market,…
Aptos just did something a lot of Layer 1s talk about but rarely execute cleanly: it made its tokenomics more serious In a notable governance update, the network confirmed that three proposals have now been passed and executed, introducing: a hard supply cap of 2.1 billion APT a staking reward reduction and a 10x increase…
One of crypto’s most persistent structural flaws is surprisingly simple: most apps help networks make money… while the apps themselves get almost nothing back Builders launch products. Users transact. Volume grows. Fees are generated. And then, on most blockchains, the economic value goes somewhere else — usually to validators, miners, stakers, or the base layer…
The crypto market is heading into one of the most important macro weeks in recent memory — and it’s not just about Bitcoin. From Federal Reserve policy signals to jobs data, consumer sentiment, and rising geopolitical tension, the next few days could heavily influence: liquidity conditions risk appetite and most importantly…altcoin price action Because in…
For years, Web3 infrastructure has promised a future where cloud services are not just distributed — but provable. Now, Filecoin is trying to make that idea far more practical. The network has announced that Filecoin Onchain Cloud is now live on mainnet, introducing a production-ready storage layer built around verifiable infrastructure, two-copy replication, live proof…
The biggest argument in AI right now is not just who has the best model. It’s who gets to build intelligence in the first place. That’s what makes the latest spotlight from the OpenTensor Foundation so important. In a recent community feature tied to Bittensor Subnet 3 (SN3), OpenTensor highlighted the work around Covenant-72B, a…
The AI agent hype cycle has reached an awkward truth: today’s “autonomous” software is often only autonomous until it needs to pay for something. It can reason, search, plan, call tools, and generate outputs — but the moment it hits a paywall, premium API, dataset, or paid service, the whole illusion tends to collapse into…
IOTA is increasingly being positioned as infrastructure for real-world trade, and the latest signal comes from the healthcare and medical device sector. This week, the TWIN Foundation said its team joined Imperial College London for a roundtable focused on UK medical device exports, where one issue stood out clearly: proving regulatory compliance across different international…
Charles Hoskinson has quietly done something very on-brand: while most of crypto argues in tweets, he apparently wrote a 337-page book on zero-knowledge proofs and cryptography. The release, shared through GitHub under a Creative Commons license, is intended to help close what Hoskinson reportedly sees as a “shockingly low level of understanding” around zero-knowledge technology…
The travel industry may be one of the biggest global markets still running on outdated financial plumbing. Behind the glossy interfaces of hotel bookings, flights, tours, and vacation packages lies a deeply fragmented system of intermediaries, delayed settlements, opaque commission structures, reconciliation headaches, and legacy back-office processes. And that is exactly the problem Xeni Travel…
