Cryptocurrency News

The digital asset market rose amid US inflation data and news of a preliminary agreement between the US and Iran. This was pointed out by Wintermute experts. Bitcoin held above $66,000 after the drop at the start of the month. The positive trend is tied to a slowdown in the core consumer price index, the presumed reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and…

The drop in the bitcoin (BTC) price below $60,000 in early June hit not only investors but also miners. As CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost noted, at this level cryptocurrency miners once again began to sell their coins more actively to cover costs. Miners were already going through tough times. Since the end of last October, the network's hashrate — the total…

The Glamsterdam upgrade has moved into the final stage of development and is being tested with all planned EIPs before the launch of public testnets. The exact activation date has not been set; the launch is expected in the second half of 2026. Ethereum Foundation developer Paritosh Jayanti called Glamsterdam probably the largest fork of the network since The Merge in 2022: it…

Alibaba has unveiled Qwen-Robot Suite — a set of AI models for robots and tasks in the physical environment: Qwen-RobotNav for navigation, Qwen-RobotManip for actions with objects, and Qwen-RobotWorld for predicting how a scene will unfold. The team described the project as a «full stack for embodied artificial intelligence».

The Base team, the layer-two network from the Coinbase exchange, has announced the launch of Base Ledgers. This is infrastructure that lets enterprises build their own payment products with a built-in privacy mechanism. Enterprise-grade private transactions are live on Base. Introducing Base Privacy: a native and compliant infrastructure for enterprises…