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$2.2B at its peak—why is Blast shutting down?

Blast's Ethereum L2 wind-down follows a reported TVL decline exceeding 98% and operating costs above revenue.

Blast went from $2.2B to $32M. The chain ran out of money.

Blast L2 shuts down Oct 26, 2026 after TVL fell about 98% from its $2.2B peak. Withdrawal steps, revenue data and

BlackRock's new bitcoin ETF caps your loss near 10%. The cost?

BlackRock filed PBIT, a buffer ETF on IBIT call spreads: ~10% loss floor per tranche, capped upside, fees still blank.

JPMorgan put 10% on bitcoin but still won't own it

JPMorgan's 2027 LTCMA gives bitcoin a 10% compound return, 20.9% arithmetic and 55% volatility, yet excludes it from

Russia gives P2P crypto 8 months left, then a Sberbank-only

Bank of Russia ends P2P crypto transfers July 1, 2027 and approves Sberbank as an exchange operator. Limits, coins and

30% of Bitcoin's supply has its public key showing

Nine firms incl. Hacken, Quantus and Midnight form the Quantum Alliance; outlets put exposed BTC at 6.04M–6.4M.

Citrini's token basket is 71% long-tail. Only 5 names top 3%

Citrini's 15-token tokenization basket, its stock picks (SECZ, CRCL, COIN) and what Goldman, Wells Fargo and Morgan

99.9% of voting power said yes. Starknet's L1 vote isn't

Starknet's Snapshot poll asks STRK holders to research a post-quantum L1. Vote mechanics, early tallies, and what a

Bitcoin ETFs lost $261M in one day. XRP funds gained $740K.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs shed $261.46M on Oct 14 while XRP ETFs added $740K. Flows by fund, Ether and Solana ETFs, and

Only ~6M of the 45M STX locked this cycle backs the bond

STX rose 50%+ in four weeks as PoX-5 Bitcoin Bonds filled Bond 2. What the staking demand is worth, and what it isn't.

Solana's 12.8-second finality drops to 150ms. One slot

Alpenglow (SIMD-0326) replaces TowerBFT on Oct 21, 2026 at epoch 1064. Covers Votor, the handoff timeline and what

USDC's reserves can't easily cross borders when a run hits

FSB's G20 note flags multi-issuer stablecoins like USDC and PYUSD-style structures: trapped reserves, 24/7