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A new wave of debate hit crypto social media after Crypto Rover posted that Bitcoin fees had fallen to 2.5 BTC a day, the lowest level since 2011, and argued that on-chain demand was fading. The chart attached to the post shows two things at once: a sharp drop in total transaction fees and a much st

Seoul, South Korea, March 17th, 2026, Chainwire Pieverse today announced Purr-Fect Claw, a pioneering full-stack infrastructure layer that transforms the OpenClaw framework into a fully autonomous, "on-chain" agent capable of trading and managing assets directly through Web2 social apps. While tod

Paris, France, March 12, 2026 - SwissBorg has successfully secured approval under the European Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation. Granted by the French Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), this approval validates SwissBorg's ongoing commitment to providing secure, transparent, and fully c

The market cap of tokenized assets reached $24.6B in January, led by tokenized treasuries and commodities. Treasuries made up 39% of this, while commodities surged due to rising gold prices. Stablecoins contributed to liquidity, with a market cap of $308B.

The essay highlights challenges in direct RWA token exposure, emphasizes the potential in leverage opportunities amid settlement delays, critiques Morpho's governance token structure, and presents Fluid as a more effective token model with stablecoin links.

Seven days of DAO activity produced a buyback proposal from Lido, a major Aave V4 deployment decision, a painful restructuring at Balancer, tokenomics overhaul at Lista, ongoing fallout from the Resolv incident, and an ECB paper that put a number on something DeFi insiders have long suspected

Quantum computers capable of breaking the Bitcoin blockchain do not exist today. Developers, however, are already considering a wave of upgrades to build defenses against the potential threat, and rightfully so, as the threat is no longer hypothetical. This week, Google published research

Google's Quantum AI team said earlier this week that a future quantum computer could derive a bitcoin private key from a public key in roughly nine minutes. The number ricocheted across social media and spooked markets. But, what does it actually mean in practice? Let's start with how bitcoin

Blockchain’s transparency provides an opportunity to revisit the multi-billion dollar institutional-grade trading market. Recently, Onchain Lens has uncovered a seasoned whale trader making a comeback to the market after a five-month hiatus. The whale has generated profits exceeding $12.44 million i