Blockchain news articles

Mech Shooter ‘MetalCore’ Shifts to Solana, Leaving Ethereum’s Immutable zkEVM Behind
It was only a few years ago that Solana was leading the charge of DeFi networks affectionately dubbed “Ethereum killers”. At the time, m...

Crypto Usage and Activity Hits All-Time High, a16z Report Says
The latest edition of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz’s (a16z) annual State of Crypto report has found crypto usage is at an all-...

Radiant Capital Suffers Second Exploit in 2024, Takes $50 Million Hit
Radiant Capital, a blockchain lending protocol, suffered a cyberattack that resulted in a loss of over US$50M (AU$74.82M). Security experts ...

Ripple to Revolutionise Crisis Relief with RLUSD Stablecoin and Blockchain Technology
Ripple yesterday announced it has entered into a US$1 million, multi-year partnership with the International Rescue Committee (IRC), an inte...

Real-World Asset Tokenisation Set for Explosive Growth, Predicts Report
Real-world assets (RWA) are one of the most exciting applications of blockchain technology both among the DeFi and TradFi spaces. Adoption o...

Ripple Report on Australia’s Digital Future: Unlocking $12 Billion Through Asset Tokenisation
Ripple is working with the local Australian Digital Economy Council of Australia (DECA) and the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre ...

Professor Coin: How Do You Price Cryptocurrencies Like Bitcoin and Ethereum?
Professor Andrew Urquhart is Professor of Finance and Financial Technology and Head of the Department of Finance at Birmingham Business Scho...

Avalanche Battle Royale Shooter ‘Off the Grid’ Debuts In Early Access On PS5, Xbox, And PC
Battle Royales have been the biggest genre in gaming for much of the decade. Everyone’s heard of Fortnite, Warzone and PUBG – three of t...

Solana Leads 2024 Token Launches, Capturing Over 87% in Recent Surge
The Solana network has indisputably become the largest hub for token launches, as the blockchain platform has accounted for over 87% of all ...

EigenLayer Investigates $5.5M Unauthorised EIGEN Token Sale; Possible Insider Breach
Popular security network EigenLayer has endured a potential breach, with approximately US $5.5m (AU $8.1m) “stolen” from the protocol. T...

Banks Will Use Swift to Trial Digital Asset and Currency Transactions From 2025
Digital assets were probably a laughing stock for bankers a few years ago. But things can change, and pretty quickly, too. Global banks acro...

Franklin Templeton Brings $435 million Tokenised Money Market Fund to Aptos Blockchain
Trillion-dollar asset managers Franklin Templeton have joined the Web3 party over the past few years, becoming one of the industry’s staun...