Ethereum’s 12-GPU proving problem just got a 4-GPU answer
Its claimed 9.62-second p99 fits Ethereum's latency target, while workload, proof and whole-system power details remain undisclosed.
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Canaan counted paused Ethiopia mining as nearly 35% of its July operating hashrate total
The company placed 4.96 EH/s in its operating column while a footnote said Ethiopia mining was paused.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright19 Aug
Yakovenko wants Solana to mint SOL to buy a company, but who would own it?
Stake-weighted approval could authorize a direction, but no target, legal buyer, ownership structure or operating authority has been named.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright19 Aug
AsiaStrategy’s Astra deal lets insider-linked buyers take ownership before $8 million comes due
Legal ownership can pass at closing, while the public agreements disclose no collateral, guarantee or escrow.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright19 Aug
HIVE’s $84.7 million Swedish tax provision eclipsed revenue even as Bitcoin output hit a record
The non-cash liability equals about 41% of cash, while HIVE’s filings leave the payment timetable unresolved.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright18 Aug
This public company now controls 18% of Zcash mining power after $33 million Winklevoss-linked deal
Only 5.38 million shares are initially issuable, leaving most of the deal's equity impact behind an approval gate.
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo18 Aug
Shifting $576M of forced sales off public order books saved Hyperliquid from a systemic crash
A new preprint says off-book routing damped liquidation feedback inside Hyperliquid, while wider market effects remain untested.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright18 Aug
Solana’s Alpenglow bug hunt charges researchers 0.5 SOL to report flaws
Anza’s 50,000 SOL ceiling depends on severity, while moving eligibility and duplicate rules put the filing risk on researchers.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright18 Aug
Bitcoin ETF flows jumped by $137 million, but it only recouped a third of recent losses
Farside’s reported $137.3 million inflow recovered just 35.6% of the prior five-session net outflow, leaving breadth unproven.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright18 Aug
Ethereum wants to hide your trades from bots before they can attack
LUCID could hide MEV-sensitive orders before commitment, but Ethereum lacks protocol rules for proving or policing key-publisher abuse.
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo18 Aug
Circle still tells users to buy Noble USDC on Coinbase after cutoff date passes
Coinbase warned later Noble deposits may not be recoverable, while its notice left the cutoff’s clock time unspecified.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright18 Aug
Blockchains may finally break their hidden reliance on a ticking randomness clock to keep networks secure
Distributed samplers replace fresh public randomness while a common random string, DDH, LWE, and proof-of-work assumptions remain.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright18 Aug
Strategy raised $334 million from MSTR shareholders last week — Bitcoin got none of it
Common-equity proceeds funded preferred dividends, buybacks and reserves while Strategy made no Bitcoin transactions.
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo18 Aug
Peter Todd reopens Bitcoin’s 21M cap debate because transaction fees make up just 0.5% of miner revenue
A viral clip sharpened the clash between fee-funded security and the credibility of a fixed supply.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright18 Aug
Half of Aave’s debt sits in just 9% of positions built around one Ethereum correlation trade
Galaxy's Aug. 7 snapshot of Aave V3 Core found 19,073 loans on the protocol after applying standard filters. Fewer than 9% of those positions are using Aave's E-mode setting, account for roughly half of all outstanding debt on the platform, and show an Ethereum correlation trade. Galaxy puts their debt-weighted loan-to-value near 90%, their average […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos18 Aug
Bitcoin faces its highest Treasury hurdle since 2007 with $22.5B less crypto credit to unwind
The US 30-year Treasury yield crossed 5.3% on Aug. 17 for the first time since June 2007, the same day Galaxy published a report showing crypto-collateralized lending down more than $22 billion from its peak. Bitcoin hit an intraday high of $64,610.01 that day. What makes the Treasury move unusual is its direction against the […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos18 Aug
Polymarket’s 20% CLARITY Act odds sit on a market one $100K trade could radically reprice
An anonymous trader on Polymarket holds a No position on the CLARITY Act worth about $414,895, roughly 2.6 times larger than the $160,200 in liquidity currently available on the market where it sits. CryptoSlate's live market data puts CLARITY Act odds near 20% Yes, a number now widely read as Washington's probability estimate for the […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos18 Aug
Bitcoin turned $10,000 into $870,000 in a decade where 87% of active stock funds failed to beat passive rivals
Bitcoin returned 87 times over a decade, while only 13% of actively managed US large-cap equity funds beat comparable passive funds' benchmarks through June 30, according to Morningstar data reported by The Wall Street Journal. That rate rose to 27% over the latest 12 months, and Wall Street has argued that AI-driven dispersion and higher […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos18 Aug
KuCoin’s new perp rule can turn one funding-rate extreme into 36 hours of hourly settlements
USDT and USDC contracts move from the next period, while returning to four-hour settlement requires 36 stable hours.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright18 Aug
Solana treasury firm cuts shares 700-for-1 but leaves room for nearly 100 billion more
Shareholders approved the vast capacity after the former BIT Mining’s NYSE suspension, but no specific use or exact post-consolidation share count was disclosed.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright17 Aug