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Ethereum's 2026 Glamsterdam hard fork brings Enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation into the protocol itself. Here is what EIP-7732 changes, why it guts the Flashbots relay business, and what it means for the $500M MEV market.

eToro's $70M cash acquisition of Zengo rewrites retail crypto custody. Here is why a Nasdaq-listed broker just bought an MPC wallet instead of building one, and what it means for Coinbase, MetaMask, Ledger, and the next 100 million self-custody users.

Google Quantum AI's 57-page paper, co-authored with Ethereum's Justin Drake and Stanford's Dan Boneh, maps five quantum attack paths that put more than $100B of on-chain value at risk and pulls Q-Day forward to 2029.

Ika's 2PC-MPC protocol on Sui replaces trust-based cross-chain bridges with native threshold signatures. Here is why that threatens LayerZero, CCIP, and the entire wrapped-token economy.

A new IMF working paper estimates the GENIUS Act wiped $300 billion — 18% — off the combined market value of US payment incumbents. Here is what the data means for Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and the next twelve months of stablecoin regulation.

Four hyped L1/L2s — Monad, MegaETH, Eclipse, and Berachain — launched with bold performance claims. Q2 2026 data reveals which ones have real usage and which are likely headed for the graveyard.

Nava Labs closed an $8.3M seed round to build on-chain escrow and verification for autonomous AI agents. A look at why EigenLayer veterans think this missing trust layer unlocks institutional agent deployment.

OKX Europe's X-Perps launch uses a 5-year expiry to bring perpetual-style crypto derivatives to MiFID II-regulated Europe — a regulatory workaround that reshapes how global exchanges compete for the $85T derivatives market.

Pendle quietly settled $69.8B in fixed yield and made its contract repo read-only — the clearest signal yet that DeFi has finally built a functioning bond market.