Ethereum price has more room to run, with big overhead resistance at $4,500 in place and several key support levels below. Key takeaways: Ether dropped to $3,500 on Thursday, but onchain data shows no signs of a deeper drop, suggesting more growth potential in 2025. ETH price resistance at $4,500 remains the main barrier for now. Read more
The Solana Foundation’s 2027 roadmap called market microstructures the “most important problem in Solana today.” The team behind the Solana blockchain has released a long-term roadmap detailing their strategy to make the Solana blockchain the foundational layer for global internet capital markets (ICMs) by 2027. ICMs, a term coined by former Solana Foundation core team member Akshay, refers to a “globally accessible ledger where entities, currencies, and cultures are tokenized,” allowing “anyone with an internet connection access to capital markets.” Solana’s “original mission” was to build the “decentralized backbone” for ICMs, according to Solana’s new Internet Capital Markets Roadmap, shared with Cointelegraph. Read more
Traditional staking rewards capital over contribution, creating unsustainable token economies. Tokenomics' future lies in performance-based tokenomics that reward measurable work. Opinion by: Naman Kabra, co-founder and CEO of NodeOps For years, staking was the gold standard in crypto. Stake tokens, secure the network and earn simple, elegant and trustless rewards. Somewhere along the way, we drifted. Staking stopped being about contribution and started being about capital. Rewards ballooned, emissions exploded and tokenomics shifted from supporting long-term infrastructure to chasing short-term yield. Read more
A $44-million breach at CoinDCX has rocked India’s CoinDCX exchange, exposing silent vulnerabilities, delayed disclosures and the fragile infrastructure. India’s largest crypto exchange, CoinDCX, fell victim to a sophisticated $44.2-million hack on July 19, 2025. Attackers managed to gain access to an operational wallet and drained it within minutes. Fortunately, the security architecture of CoinDCX meant all customer funds were kept completely safe. Read more
The controversy over Robinhood’s OpenAI private stock tokens is only the beginning of a wider legal battle over tokenized equities. Robinhoods tokenized stock offerings in Europe have ignited debate over the legality of tokenizing equity, especially that of private companies like OpenAI. OpenAI said Robinhoods unapproved OpenAI tokens offer no equity ownership rights, causing regulators in Lithuania to open a formal inquiry. But thats just the start. With concerns over how different jurisdictions approach tokenized shares, the boundary between innovation and illegality, and whether there are sufficient legal protections for stock token holders. To unpack the legal complexities behind tokenized stocks, Magazine spoke with Yuriy Brisov of Digital & Analogue Partners, Joshua Chu of the Hong Kong Web3 Association and Yulia Murat, head of regulatory affairs at Global Ledger. The conversation has been edited for clarity and length. Read more