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Enterprise blockchain adoption is moving faster than retail Web3 innovation in 2026 because large organizations now have three things they did not have at scale in the last cycle: clearer rules, mature infrastructure, and business cases a CFO can actually measure. Retail Web3 is still active. Consumer DeFi, gaming, and NFT communities keep shipping. But…

A new study argued that Polymarket’s five-minute Bitcoin contract became a machine for wealth transfer. It moved money from retail bettors to a small band of manipulators, and it made Bitcoin’s spot price worse in the process. The paper, “Settlement Manipulation in Prediction Markets” by David Dai, Ruizhe Jia, and Shihao Yu of Stanford and…

The Ethereum Foundation has laid out new security standards for crypto wallets designed to make transaction approvals much clearer for users and protect them from common phishing attacks. The initiative introduces ‘clear signing,’ a system that replaces confusing hexadecimal code with human-readable summaries of what a transaction actually does before a user approves it. The…

Add ZyCrypto News On Google Solana (SOL) remained range-bound on Monday as cautious investor sentiment continued to outweigh strong liquidity in the broader digital asset market. Notably, over the past seven days, the cryptocurrency declined by nearly 3%, with persistent selling pressure preventing a meaningful recovery. Meanwhile, according to data shared by the popular blockchain…

Hoskinson says RealFi could become a major source of Cardano TVL and transactions. Phase 1 testnet attracted over 1,000 users and nearly 500 verified wallets. RealFi targets DeFi growth through yield, stablecoins, and real-world lending use cases. Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson believes the network’s RealFi initiative could become a major driver of decentralized finance activity…

Investing.com — JPMorgan Chase & Co. lowered its financial estimates for Circle Internet Group Inc. and Coinbase Global Inc. on Tuesday, citing pressure on their stablecoin business from a new partnership arrangement with crypto exchange Hyperliquid. The bank said the revised agreement changes how income from Circle’s USDC, the second-largest stablecoin globally, gets divided among…