OPEN-SOURCE
Cake Wallet Adds Self-Custodial Lightning Support Designed for Everyday Users
Cake Wallet adds self-custodial Lightning support, enabling fast, private Bitcoin payments without channel management or losing control of funds.
BLOCKCHAIN
DECENTRALIZATION
Why Half of New Darknet Markets Only Accept This Crypto
Monero’s rise isn’t a scandal; it’s proof that privacy-focused crypto works as intended. As darknet markets increasingly go XMR-only, the chain’s future promises near-perfect opacity, complicating investigations and challenging regulators.
BLOCKCHAIN
Kingdom of Bhutan To Become Validator on Sei Blockchain, Boosting National Technology Capacity
Bhutan to deploy a Sei validator amid a broader push into open, decentralized infrastructure. Led by DHI InnoTech and Sapien Capital.
PRIVACY
Cake Wallet Adds Zcash With Shielded Transactions by Default
Cake Wallet has integrated Zcash (ZEC) with shielded transactions enabled by default. This ensures all outgoing transactions originate from shielded addresses, concealing sender, receiver, and amounts for maximum privacy.
AI
Top 10 Emerging Technology Trends Set to Shape 2026
Juniper Research unveils Top 10 Emerging Tech Trends for 2026: Post-quantum crypto, neuromorphic chips, physical AI robots, multi-agent systems, wireless EV charging, counter-drone tech, microfluidic cooling, multi-cloud, SMRs & open-source smart buildings.
BLOCKCHAIN
What Is Ethereum Fusaka? 2025 Upgrade Explained
Ethereum's Fusaka upgrade launches December 3, 2025, introducing PeerDAS to scale Layer 2 capacity by up to 8x. The upgrade reduces validator storage by 88%, cuts rollup costs, and enables enterprise privacy applications through improved data availability sampling across 12 new EIPs.
MESSAGING APPS
Vitalik Buterin Backs Privacy Messaging with $500K Donation
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin donated 256 ETH to privacy-focused messaging apps Session and SimpleX Chat, advancing encrypted communication beyond Signal. The projects address metadata privacy and decentralized user accounts in the face of global surveillance challenges.
WEB3
Smashtoshi Launches “History of Bitcoin” Global Tour – A Collector’s Tribute to Bitcoin’s Cultural Legacy
Smashtoshi’s “History of Bitcoin” global tour unites 128 digital artists across five cities, unveiling a limited-edition art book that celebrates Bitcoin’s cultural legacy through fine art and innovation.
DATA CENTERS
Half the Internet Just Broke
Half the internet just broke because one company had a DNS problem in one datacenter. That's not acceptable for systems billions of people depend on daily.
PREDICTION MARKETS
Polymarket Isn’t Predicting the Future. It’s Liquidating Uncertainty.
Polymarket hit 95.2% accuracy in the last four hours. Not over a week. Not over cherry-picked markets. Four hours. Across all resolved prediction markets. "World record," tweeted Atlantislq. "No media in history ever hit that accuracy. 91.1% accuracy over a month, do you realize how
BLOCKCHAIN
Cake Wallet Integrates xStocks, Letting Users Invest in Stocks Using Crypto.
You can now buy xStocks with Monero, Bitcoin and Ethereum. Cake Wallet, an open-source, privacy-focused crypto wallet, today announced the integration of xStocks, a new feature that allows users to invest in tokenized stocks and ETFs directly through Web3 self-custody. Users can now buy xStocks directly inside the Cake Wallet
CULTURE
From FBI Raids to $9 Billion Vindication
"Our partnership with ICE marks a major step in bringing prediction markets into the financial mainstream," Coplan posted on X. "But in addition to that, it's a monumental step forward for DeFi."