Tether USDT briefly overtook Ethereum in market cap for the first time in seven years. ETH fell to $1,540 as traders fled risk assets and parked capital in dollar stablecoins.
The Ethereum Foundation laid off 54 employees — 20% of its staff — and restructured into five clusters. Vitalik Buterin proposed cutting annual spending from 15% to 5% of reserves.
BitMine and SharpLink — the largest public ether holders — together with Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin have funded Ethlabs, a new non-profit research lab meant to prepare the network for institutional scale.
Morgan Stanley filed spot ETH and SOL ETFs at a 0.14% fee, undercutting Grayscale and Franklin Templeton. The crypto ETF fee war has reached altcoin funds.
The most notorious sandwich bot on Ethereum lost $7.5M after an attacker spent weeks planting 66 fake token contracts that tricked it into signing its funds away.
Microsoft has detailed CryptoBandits, a Windows trojan spreading via USB drives since February 2026. It swaps wallet addresses in the clipboard and exfiltrates seed phrases over the Tor network.
Hsiao-Wei Wang, co-executive director and board member, resigned from the Ethereum Foundation effective immediately on June 18 — the eighth senior leader to leave in five months.
Ethereum isn't just another coin in your exchanger's catalogue — it's the settlement infrastructure for stablecoins and ERC-20 tokens. Three realistic 2026–2027 scenarios and what each one means for your business.
Consensys opened early access to MetaMask Agent Wallet — a self-custodial wallet that lets AI agents trade DeFi autonomously across 10 chains. Built-in threat scanning, spending limits, and $10K transaction coverage.
Circle has launched cirBTC, a 1:1 BTC-backed ERC-20 token for Ethereum DeFi. It targets the $12.5B wrapped bitcoin market, where WBTC and Coinbase's cbBTC currently dominate.
Ethereum is more stable and familiar; Solana is faster and cheaper. For an exchanger operator, the real question is not about the technology — it is about what your clients expect and which failure you can handle.
We compare TRON, Ethereum, Solana and TON for exchanger operators: fees, speed, reliability and audience of each network. Practical guidance on choosing the right blockchain for your business.
