BTC$67,432.18+2.34%ETH$3,521.44+1.08%SOL$178.62-0.62%BNB$612.30+0.41%XRP$0.6234-0.18%ADA$0.4521+3.12%DOGE$0.1623+1.86%AVAX$38.71-1.24%LINK$17.84+0.92%HOGE$0.00004120+4.21%

Category: Bitcoin & Layer-1s

114 stories on this beat

Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and the base-layer race.

BITCOIN &AMP; LAYER-1S JUN 24

What is Bitcoin? A no-hype explainer for 2026

Bitcoin in 2026 is a $1.3T monetary asset with a fixed 21M cap, 10-minute blocks, and a halving every 210,000 blocks. Here…

By Liam Brennan·9 min read

BITCOIN &AMP; LAYER-1S JUN 23

Ethereum’s L1 throughput debate, decided in three diagrams

Three charts settle a debate Ethereum researchers have been having since EIP-1559: gas-per-block, blob inclusion under EIP-4844, and MEV-Boost relay share tell…

By Marcus Okafor·9 min read

BITCOIN &AMP; LAYER-1S JUN 23

The next BTC halving is still over a year out. The miner stress test starts now.

312 days to the 5th BTC halving. Subsidy drops 3.125 to 1.5625 BTC at block 1,050,000. CleanSpark, Riot, and Marathon will all…

By Liam Brennan·11 min read

BITCOIN &AMP; LAYER-1S JUN 23

Solana’s mainnet upgrade quietly halved confirmation latency

Solana's v1.18.x cluster upgrade and the SIMD-0123 reward changes cut median optimistic confirmation latency from roughly 480 ms to 240 ms. Here…

By Marcus Okafor·8 min read