After an incident at MetaMask, about 17,000 validators holding 523,000 ETH are leaving staking, and the process will take days. A beginner's guide to the exit queue, why it exists and what stakers should expect.
In OKX’s 47th report the Bitcoin reserve ratio came in at 109%: 153,151 BTC in wallets against 139,865 BTC in customer accounts. Here is how this check works and what it leaves out.
Glamsterdam goes live on the Sepolia testnet on October 6. We explain what a hard fork is, why balances do not change, who actually has to upgrade, why exchanges pause deposits and withdrawals, and how to avoid fake coin "migration" scams.
In crypto projects tokens vote, not people: on September 28, 2026, a World Liberty Financial proposal passed with votes from about 2.1% of WLFI's maximum supply. How quorums and snapshots work, why it isn't democracy, and why projects pay holders to vote.
Market cap is the last trade price multiplied by every coin in circulation. That is why a $10 purchase can "paint" a $10 million market cap. We explain how the metric is calculated, how it differs from liquidity and what to look at besides it.
On September 24, $351.6 million was drained from Bitget's hot wallets, and the exchange pledged to cover the loss from its user protection fund. We explain in plain terms how exchanges hold coins, what a protection fund is, how it differs from insurance, and what users can do.
In the last week of September 2026 Bitcoin gained 3.3%, yet its share of the crypto market slipped below 60%. Here is how Bitcoin dominance is calculated, why sites show different numbers, what stablecoins have to do with it and why a falling share is not the same as altcoin season.
On September 25 the Fear & Greed Index reads 71, “Greed”; on August 17 it was 31, “Fear”. We explain what goes into the index, why different sites show different values, and why it describes past market mood rather than future price.
Percentage losses and gains are measured from different bases, so they are not interchangeable: after −50% you need +100%, after −80% you need +400%. A simple formula, illustrated with Bitcoin, which in September 2026 is still about 32% below its peak.
Circle launched USDC borrowing against bitcoin for institutions. Here is the mechanism: what LTV and health factor mean, how far price can fall before liquidation, why interest alone can push a loan over the line, and how much collateral is left afterwards.
One private key can produce the same EVM address on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, and other compatible networks, while every network maintains its own balances and transaction history. Matching addresses do not merge assets: a token received on one chain does not automatically appear on another and requires the correct network context.
A failed Ethereum transaction still consumes gas because validators performed computation before the contract reverted or exhausted its limit. State changes roll back, but completed work cannot be undone. The user pays for gas actually used; the unused portion of the limit is returned, except when execution consumes the full allowance in an out-of-gas failure.
