IOTA Just Powered a Parliament That Can’t Lie — and a Bologna Student Proved It Works
A University of Bologna student has designed and tested a blockchain-based legislative system that makes it technically impossible for governments…
Author: Sean Williams
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US Bitcoin Reserve Plan Rebranded—What ARMA Means for Crypto Markets
At Paris Blockchain Week and the 2026 Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas, two parallel narratives emerged—one focused on empowering everyday…
Western Union’s USDPT Stablecoin Could Disrupt Global Payments in 2026
Western Union is moving beyond incremental crypto adoption with plans to introduce USDPT, a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin, alongside a new…
Ethereum’s Bold Plan to Unite Crypto Liquidity—Can It Work?
Ethereum’s long-running scalability trade-offs may be entering a new phase. A fresh proposal led by Gnosis introduces the Ethereum Economic…
Quantum Threat Rising? Solana Prepares as Bitcoin Targets $80,000
The race to future-proof blockchain security is accelerating. Developers within the Solana ecosystem have introduced a test version of a…
U.S. Eyes 1 Million Bitcoin Reserve: New Bill Could Change Everything
U.S. Representative Nick Begich is preparing to reintroduce legislation aimed at establishing a national Bitcoin reserve—this time under a new…
Worldcoin Scandal? ZachXBT Compares Sam Altman’s Crypto to FTX Collapse
Sam Altman’s crypto project, Worldcoin, is facing renewed scrutiny after prominent on-chain investigator ZachXBT publicly criticized its token model and…
South Korea’s K Bank Tests Ripple Tech for Faster Remittances
South Korea’s digital banking sector is taking another step toward blockchain integration. K Bank has announced a strategic partnership with…
Tether Enters Mining Infrastructure—What It Means for Bitcoin’s Future
Tether is pushing further into the infrastructure side of crypto with a new open-source framework designed to streamline how Bitcoin…
Inside Starfish: The Consensus Protocol Powering IOTA’s Speed, Security, and Scale
Blockchain networks live and die by their consensus mechanism. Get it wrong and you end up with slow finality, centralization…