Zcash’s rise mirrors a shifting mood toward privacy in an increasingly monitored online world.
Crypto users must deal with costly fees, protocol-level restrictions and multiple service providers to execute simple stablecoin transactions.
Like early email protocols, DeFi remains complex and isolated. Bridging DeFi and TradFi through hybrid payment solutions could unlock crypto’s mainstream potential.
Bitcoin has become a $2 trillion asset in the 17 years since Satoshi Nakamoto published the white paper, but it faces its first red October since 2018.
Zcash defied the crypto market downturn with a 45% rally this week, making it the most valuable privacy-focused cryptocurrency, following Hayes’ call for a $10,000 price target.
Bitwise’s Matt Hougan said Solana has good odds of winning a larger share of the stablecoin and tokenization market.
Nordea announced in 2018 that it would ban employees from buying and holding Bitcoin due to concerns that the crypto market was unregulated.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong rattled off a bunch of crypto buzzwords at the end of its Q3 earnings call — resolving all prediction market bets on them to a “yes” in one swoop.
MegaETH surpassed its fundraising cap with over $1.3 billion committed, achieving a theoretical valuation of more than $27 billion after closing on Thursday.
Blockchain fees are set to reach $19.8 billion this year, demonstrating the technology’s growth beyond speculation into real, user-driven economic activity.