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CryptoBench: AI Meets DeFi, Head-On
CryptoBench just landed. Developed by ChainOpera AI and Princeton AI Lab, under the guidance of Professor Mengdi Wang and her PhD student Jiacheng Gu, it isn’t another benchmark. It is the benchmark...

Binance Expands USD1 Integration as New Trading Pairs and BUSD Collateral Conversion Go Live
Binance is expanding its stablecoin strategy again. The exchange has confirmed it will launch new USD1 trading pairs and convert all Binance-Peg BUSD collateral into USD1. The move marks one of the l...

Circle and Aleo Introduce USDCx as Privacy Becomes the New Stablecoin Frontier
Circle is making a bold move. The company partners with privacy-focused blockchain Aleo to launch USDCx, a stablecoin designed with privacy at its core. Aleo co-founder Howard Wu explains the goal cle...

Madhugiri Hardfork Goes Live on Polygon PoS, Pushing Network Toward High-Load Scalability
The Polygon PoS network has activated the Madhugiri Hardfork at block 80,084,800 around 10:00 UTC, marking another major step in the chain’s aggressive scaling roadmap. The upgrade arrives months a...

Virtuals Protocol Partners With OpenMind to Unite Digital Agents and Real-World Robotics
The future of AI is no longer forming in isolated silos. It is converging. And one of the most ambitious moves in that direction just arrived as Virtuals Protocol announced a strategic partnership wit...

SEC Closes Two-Year Probe Into Ondo Finance, Clearing Path for U.S. Expansion
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has officially closed its two-year investigation into Ondo Finance, and it did so without charges. The decision marks a major turning point for the $1.5 bi...

Bitcoin Cash Emerges As The Best-performing L1 Of 2025
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is having a breakout year. While most major Layer-1 tokens remain underwater, BCH is pulling away from the pack. According to data shared by Crypto Koryo, only four L1 assets are p...

Ethereum Closes the Month With 29 Major Upgrades, Launches, and Milestones Across Its Expanding Ecosystem
Ethereum just wrapped one of its most active months of development yet. From protocol upgrades and scaling breakthroughs to institutional adoption and new consumer-facing apps, the network continues t...

Cloudflare Outage Sparks Global Crypto Service Disruption
Cloudflare suffered a major traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting at approximately 8:47 UTC. The incident pushed large parts of the internet offline for nearly 25 minutes, triggering widesprea...

Aster Executes Massive Buyback Burn as 2026 Roadmap Lands
Aster has completed one of its largest supply-tightening moves to date, executing its S3 buyback burn and locking half of the returned tokens for future airdrop distribution. The operation marks a si...