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Tezos Tallinn upgrade now live, slashes block times to 6 seconds

CryptoJanuary 26, 2026

Tezos, a layer-1 proof-of-stake blockchain network, implemented its latest protocol upgrade, Tallinn, on Saturday, which reduced block times on the base layer to 6 seconds. The latest upgrade is th…...

Bitcoin nodes running BIP-110 crosses 2% as spam wars heat up

CryptoJanuary 26, 2026

The number of Bitcoin (BTC) nodes signaling support for Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110 (BIP-110), a temporary soft fork limiting the amount of data included in each transaction at the consensus lev…...

PENGUIN memecoin surges 564% following White House social media post

CryptoJanuary 26, 2026

The Nietzschean Penguin (PENGUIN) token, a memecoin launched on the Solana layer-1 blockchain network, surged by about 564% following a social media post from the United States White House. On Frida…...

Bitcoin payments held back by tax policy, not scaling tech: Crypto exec

CryptoJanuary 26, 2026

The biggest obstacle to Bitcoin (BTC) being used as a payment method is tax policy, not scaling technology that reduces settlement times and transaction costs, according to Pierre Rochard, a board me…...

Ethereum treasury company BitMine crosses 1 million staked ETH milestone

CryptoJanuary 12, 2026

Crypto treasury company BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) staked an additional 86,400 Ether (ETH) on Saturday, valued at about $268.7 million at the time of this writing, crossing the 1 million s…...

ETH-BTC ratio bottomed in April, mirrors 2019 cycle: Analyst

CryptoJanuary 12, 2026

The price of Ether (ETH), the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum layer-1 blockchain network, bottomed out in April 2025, and its price action mirrors the 2019 cycle, according to market analyst Mi…...

Bitcoin mining difficulty falls in first adjustment of 2026

CryptoJanuary 11, 2026

The Bitcoin (BTC) network mining difficulty, the relative computing challenge of adding a new block to the decentralized blockchain ledger, fell slightly to 146.4 trillion on Thursday, in the first d…...

Starknet publishes post-mortem report after temporary network outage

CryptoJanuary 11, 2026

The team behind Starknet, an Ethereum layer2 (L2) scaling network, released a post-mortem report outlining the root cause of the temporary mainnet downtime on Monday. The root cause of the mainnet d…...

Bitcoiners celebrate 17th anniversary of Hal Finney's Bitcoin post

CryptoJanuary 11, 2026

The Bitcoin (BTC) community is celebrating the anniversary of cypherpunk and Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finneys post on January 10, 2009, telling the world that he was running the Bitcoin node software Run…...

Nasdaq and CME Group join forces to launch Nasdaq-CME Crypto Index

CryptoJanuary 10, 2026

The Nasdaq Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group joined forces to unify their crypto indexes, rebranding the Nasdaq Crypto Index (NCI) as the Nasdaq-CME Crypto Index. The NC…...