When people discuss blockchain, the conversation often focuses on finance: Bitcoin, Ethereum, exchanges and DeFi. The association has a historical basis because Bitcoin was the first application to use blockchain architecture. However, the technology has a broader scope. A blockchain functions as a distributed, immutable ledger that every participant can verify. The architecture allows parties ...
When you submit a transaction to Ethereum, the mempool broadcasts it to the network, allowing bots, builders, and validators to see it. When a transaction moves a significant amount of value, such as a large DEX swap, a liquidation, or an NFT bid, participants can extract profit from that visibility before the transaction executes. The ...
If you follow Bitcoin mining news this fall, you have probably heard about the 320-day hashrate drought. The claim is that Bitcoin has spent almost a year below its all-time high, the longest stretch in a decade, even as its price sits near record levels. The first half of that is roughly right. The second ...
Say you put $10,000 into Ethereum liquid staking last year. Based on the latest numbers, that money earns about $270 a year. Now say you put the same $10,000 into restaking, the strategy that was supposed to pay extra. The extra restaking fees come to about $5 a year. Those figures are my estimate, based ...
If you follow NFT news, you have seen these two numbers side by side: Blur at 58%, OpenSea at 31%. They usually appear as a scoreboard of which marketplace is “more fake.” They aren’t a scoreboard, because they don’t measure the same thing. Both come from a 2024 study by researchers at the University of ...
Between September 15 and 21, the price of Bitcoin jumped 14.6%, from $75,585 to $86,595. It touched $87,397 on September 21, the same day spot ETFs took in almost $1 billion. Fear-and-greed gauges flashed their greediest reading in more than a year, and headlines turned bullish. But a less-noticed number sits underneath the rally, and ...
A popular headline rang in crypto corridors this August, 45 Bitcoin metrics were in “capitulation.” According to analysts, this was the longest such stretch since the FTX collapse. It sounded like 45 separate alarms going off at once. That isn’t what the data said. And what happened next says more about the claim than the ...
Ask ten people whether bitcoin whales are buying or selling right now, and you’ll likely get ten different answers. Based on the on-chain record for the week ending September 16, 2026, all ten of them could be partly right. According to the most recent analysis, Bitcoin holders are splitting into two camps, mega whales adding ...
In mid-September, XRP seemed stuck. It dropped from around $1.42 on September 14 to about $1.28-$1.30 by September 16, based on Coinranking’s futures data. By September 25, XRP was trading near $1.57. That’s a jump of about 22.7% from its lowest point. As of September 30, it’s around $1.49. Its market value is close to ...
Solana is fast. Speed has always been its biggest talking point. The network always points to record-breaking weekly transactions, and block times under a second. Yet, these numbers come with a not so impressive stat, solana failure rate. What the measurement actually showed about Solana Transactions On September 14, 2026, CryptoTicker, a crypto analytics site ...
