The number of active addresses on the Bitcoin network has fallen to nearly 600,000 — a level last seen in 2019, when the crypto market was in a bearish trend. Experts at Bitcoin Magazine suggested that there may be several reasons for these changes.
The blockchain of the privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash went several hours without displaying new blocks after a critical vulnerability was discovered in Orchard, the network’s core private transaction mechanism.
The $NEAR Protocol blockchain will implement post-quantum cryptography measures by the end of Q2 2026, meaning as early as this month. This was stated by the project’s co-founder Illia Polosukhin.
Blockchain is gradually ceasing to be an experimental technology and is becoming part of the global financial infrastructure. Another confirmation of this is the inclusion of Ripple and Stellar in the annual ranking of the 100 largest companies in cross-border payments by FXC Intelligence.
Blockchain.com Group Holdings has begun the process of going public. According to Bloomberg, the crypto exchange operator submitted a confidential filing package to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and aims to complete its stock market listing by the end of the year.
While Bitcoin traded at around $79,650 over the past 24 hours, the derivatives market experienced a sharp wave of liquidations. According to the data, positions worth a total of $158.53 million were liquidated during the last 24 hours, of which $142.59 million came from long positions. Short liquidations accounted for $15.93 million. As a result, approximately 89.9% of all liquidations were long positions, pointing to a sudden panic sell-off in the market.
The price of $XRP is attracting growing attention ahead of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee’s May 14 review of the CLARITY Act. Several leading AI models have outlined both bullish and bearish scenarios depending on the outcome of the vote.
Toncoin, the native cryptocurrency of The Open Network, a layer-1 blockchain protocol, currently leads in transaction finality speed. According to results from a recent test, transactions using Toncoin require only 0.6 seconds to become immutable and irreversible, compared with Bitcoin, which has a time-to-finality (TTF) of one hour.
A new dataset on crypto market network activity has been released, drawing attention. The list, based on weekly active users (WAU), shows which blockchains and altcoins stand out in terms of real user engagement.
Ripple, a cryptocurrency payments company, continues to develop the $XRP Ledger (XRPL) blockchain. At this stage, the $XRP Ledger has partnered with Boundless, a zero-knowledge infrastructure provider, to enable banks and asset managers to carry out confidential yet compliant transactions directly on the network.
A small aerospace company near Toulouse is about to make history. ST Group, which produces high-performance composite parts for Airbus and Dassault Aviation, will be the first traditional company in the world to conduct an initial public offering (IPO) on the blockchain.
The cryptocurrency exchange Binance, in partnership with the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine and the Lviv IT Cluster, has announced the launch of the Web3 Sustainability Laboratory — a national initiative aimed at developing blockchain technologies, investments in innovations, and Ukraine's digital transformation.
According to an announcement made on Wednesday, B2C2 will now route and settle large-scale stablecoin transactions for its institutional clients primarily on the high-performance and scalable layer-1 blockchain.
Trust Wallet, one of the largest non-custodial wallet providers with 220 million users, will allow AI agents to independently execute swaps and trading operations across more than 25 blockchain networks.
The inflow of retail investors who are actively trading fractional shares of tech companies has allowed Solana to surpass Ethereum in the number of active users. It is now the network with the largest number of addresses holding tokenized real-world assets (RWA).
Altcoins and blockchain projects with the highest user activity were identified based on weekly active users in the cryptocurrency market.
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