Ethereum

Hong Kong-based stablecoin payments company RedotPay has completed a financial audit as it prepares to pursue an initial public offering in the United States.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said the planned 2027 Hegotá upgrade may be the network’s last “normal” fork—his term for a release still recognizable to people familiar with Ethereum in 2015.

THORChain Under Fire as Ethereum Evolves Beyond the Blockchain THORChain is under intense criticism after refusing Bitget’s request to blacklist addresses tied to a major exchange hack, while Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin simultaneously outlined a sweeping effort to turn his chain into a broader cryptographic computing platform.

Researchers have proposed Shielded Bitcoin, a privacy layer that could hide payment amounts, senders and recipients without altering Bitcoin’s consensus rules.

Evercrest, the team behind the decentralized liquid-staking protocol KelpDAO, has sued LayerZero and co-founder Bryan Pellegrino in British Columbia over an April 22 cross-chain exploit that moved $292 million in assets.