The Ethereum Foundation saw Josh Stark and Trent Van Epps depart within a week. With Tomasz Stańczak having left in February 2026, the foundation's publicly visible management now appears to be down to co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang.
Markets swung on US-Europe trade headlines, then stabilized. Bitcoin demand stays firm but execution limits surface. Bitcoin Everlight offers a lightweight transaction layer with second confirmations and optional anchoring. BTCL presale is live.
Nasdaq proposed rule changes for tokenized securities settling via DTC. SEC granted DTCC no-action relief to tokenize Russell 1000 stocks and ETFs from 2026. Institutions build multi-asset collateral systems to unlock liquidity.
Zebec Network has outlined its 2026 institutional compliance plan, combining Nacha membership confirmation, ISO 20022 alignment, and a NatPay integration with new goals around MiCA preparation, on-chain buyback transparency, and ZBCN tokenomics.
Brian Armstrong said the Senate crypto bill was delayed after Coinbase found several red-line issues in the draft, with stablecoin competition and bank interests at the center of the dispute.
Watcher.Guru said the US stock market erased more than $1 trillion in a single day, feeding risk-off sentiment that hit crypto as well. Bitcoin fell to about $68,484, while Ether dropped to around $2,043.
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said the company is developing Hypersearch, a decentralized search engine based on DHT technology and designed to reduce reliance on centralized servers.
Shiba Inu has slipped below a key ascending trendline, with price hovering near $0.0000058. Weak volume, fading momentum, and bearish moving averages leave SHIB under pressure.
