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NFTs are unique digital identifiers recorded on a blockchain that certify ownership and authenticity of a specific asset. Moving past the "PFP" craze, 2026 NFTs emphasize utility, representing everything from IP rights and digital fashion to RWA titles and event ticketing. This tag explores the technical standards of digital ownership, the growth of NFT marketplaces, and the integration of non-fungible tech into the broader Creator Economy and enterprise solutions.

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Tapzi Rises Among the Best Crypto Presales of 2025 — With Bitcoin Hyper in the Mix

Tapzi Rises Among the Best Crypto Presales of 2025 — With Bitcoin Hyper in the Mix

Tapzi’s skill-based GameFi presale is winning attention in 2025, with real gameplay, solid tokenomics, and 3× early ROI potential—analysts call it a 100× contender.

Author: Blockchainreporter

2025/10/16

Top 5 Upcoming Crypto Presales in 2025 That Could Change the Game

Top 5 Upcoming Crypto Presales in 2025 That Could Change the Game

Discover the top 5 upcoming crypto presales of 2025 poised to disrupt the market. Explore early projects with massive growth and profit potential.

Author: Blockchainreporter

2025/10/16

Paxos Technical Error Creates $300 Trillion PYUSD: Confirms Mint Was Internal Error, Not a Hack

Paxos Technical Error Creates $300 Trillion PYUSD: Confirms Mint Was Internal Error, Not a Hack

The post Paxos Technical Error Creates $300 Trillion PYUSD: Confirms Mint Was Internal Error, Not a Hack appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. At 3:12 PM EST, blockchain watchers froze as Paxos, the regulated issuer behind PayPal USD (PYUSD), mistakenly minted $300 trillion worth of PYUSD in a single transaction. Just 22 minutes later, the entire amount was burned, as if it never happened. The company quickly issued a statement clarifying the cause: “This was an internal technical error. There is no security breach. Customer funds are safe. We have addressed the root cause.” @Paxos, October 15, 2025 At 3:12 PM EST, Paxos mistakenly minted excess PYUSD as part of an internal transfer. Paxos immediately identified the error and burned the excess PYUSD. This was an internal technical error. There is no security breach. Customer funds are safe. We have addressed the root… — Paxos (@Paxos) October 15, 2025 What Really Happened The massive mint originated from Paxos’ official wallet, confirming it was an internal mistake, not a hack. According to on-chain data, the tokens were created in a single transaction, likely due to a configuration or input error, something as simple as typing the wrong number during an internal test or system update. On Ethereum, the mint and burn were both visible to the public, allowing anyone to track the sequence in real time. The transparency of blockchain made the event both shocking and oddly reassuring, a trillion-dollar error that everyone could see, and everyone could verify was fixed. Within minutes, crypto Twitter exploded. Analysts and traders scrambled to confirm whether the $300 trillion mint was real, while others joked that PayPal had briefly overtaken Apple, Microsoft, and even entire global economies in value. “For about 20 minutes, PayPal was the richest company on Earth.” @pukerrainbrow For about 20 minutes, PayPal became the richest company on Earth. Paxos accidentally minted $300 trillion in PYUSD… before burning it all like nothing happened. But…

Author: BitcoinEthereumNews

2025/10/16

AI-powered contracts: Rewiring Bitcoin mining’s future

AI-powered contracts: Rewiring Bitcoin mining’s future

The post AI-powered contracts: Rewiring Bitcoin mining’s future appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Homepage > News > Business > AI-powered contracts: Rewiring Bitcoin mining’s future In the tough world of block reward mining, where costs for power and keeping machines running play a critical role in profitability, artificial intelligence (AI) smart contracts provide some much-needed support. These aren’t your everyday blockchain agreements that simply split block rewards, but intelligent, self-executing codes that crunch real-time data, energy prices, rig temperatures, or network difficulty, and make split-second decisions to keep miners on track. With the blockchain and AI market heating up, the fusion of AI and decentralized tech could birth a new breed of self-optimizing mining operations, redefining efficiency in the cutthroat world of 2025. Smart contracts have been a key part of the blockchain for a while, automating things such as decentralized finance (DeFi) loans and non-fungible token (NFT) sales. Adding AI to them is like giving them a brain; instead of sticking to preset rules, these contracts can adapt, learning from live data to improve mining efficiency. Companies like Fetch.ai and Chainlink are paving the way by feeding real-time data such as weather, grid costs, or hashrate trends into Ethereum contracts that miners can use. For example, imagine a North Dakota mining farm where power costs change often. An AI contract could see when prices go up and then decide to throttle older machines. Electricity expenses are a key player in mining, but these costs are increasing. By 2025, miners in the United States could see rates over $0.10 per kWh, much higher than the $0.03-$0.07 rates in places such as Oman. To deal with this, AI contracts can study data from power grids or renewable sources to help control electricity usage. For instance, a miner in Texas could use an AI contract tied to ERCOT’s pricing. This would let them move operations…

Author: BitcoinEthereumNews

2025/10/16

Ripple CLO Clarifies the Misconception Around Bitcoin Decentralization

Ripple CLO Clarifies the Misconception Around Bitcoin Decentralization

The post Ripple CLO Clarifies the Misconception Around Bitcoin Decentralization  appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Chief Legal Officer at Ripple, Stuart Alderoty, explained the misconception of decentralization in crypto. In his latest X post, Alderoty said the idea of decentralization is not unique to Bitcoin, just because it doesn’t have a CEO. Decentralization is not Unique to Bitcoin According to Alderoty, the idea of decentralization is based on permissionless systems, …

Author: CoinPedia

2025/10/16

XRP & Ethereum Lead as Fed Money Printing Signals New Financial Era

XRP & Ethereum Lead as Fed Money Printing Signals New Financial Era

The post XRP & Ethereum Lead as Fed Money Printing Signals New Financial Era appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. XRP and Ethereum Emerge as Altcoins to Give a Keen Eye According to Tom Bruni, Head of Markets & Retail Investor Insights, Ripple’s XRP and Ethereum (ETH) are currently the two altcoins commanding the most attention from traders and investors.  With the cryptocurrency market experiencing heightened volatility, these digital assets are being closely monitored for signals that could indicate the next major moves in the broader crypto ecosystem. Bruni highlights that XRP and Ethereum have consistently shown resilience amid market fluctuations, setting them apart from other altcoins. XRP, in particular, has been gaining traction due to its growing adoption in cross-border payment solutions and the anticipation surrounding its regulatory developments.  Meanwhile, Ethereum continues to maintain its position as the leading smart contract platform, underpinned by a thriving decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible token (NFT) ecosystem. Amid heightened scrutiny of central bank policies, inflation, and global liquidity, XRP and Ethereum stand out as altcoin bellwethers. Bruni acknowledges that their performance offers key insights into broader investor appetite for digital assets beyond Bitcoin. He also highlights the rising sophistication of retail investors, who now use technical analysis, on-chain metrics, and real-time data to drive informed decisions, making XRP and Ethereum key targets for both short-term trades and long-term investments. The Fed’s Money Printing Signals a New Global Financial System Ahead According to renowned crypto observer SMQKE, the Federal Reserve’s ongoing quantitative easing (QE) programs are more than a temporary response to economic challenges, they are signaling the dawn of a new global financial system.  The scale and persistence of the Fed’s money printing have reached a point that SMQKE describes as irreversible, suggesting profound changes are imminent in global finance. Quantitative easing, in essence, involves the central bank creating new money to purchase government bonds and other securities, injecting liquidity into the…

Author: BitcoinEthereumNews

2025/10/16

Best Altcoins To Buy Now As PEPE & FLOKI Lose Steam: This $0.0035 New Crypto Stands Out

Best Altcoins To Buy Now As PEPE & FLOKI Lose Steam: This $0.0035 New Crypto Stands Out

Meme coins that powered portfolios through 2024 are stumbling in October 2025. PEPE trades at $0.00000754, down 31% year-to-date, while […] The post Best Altcoins To Buy Now As PEPE & FLOKI Lose Steam: This $0.0035 New Crypto Stands Out appeared first on Coindoo.

Author: Coindoo

2025/10/16

Memecoins Fall to July Lows While Bitcoin & Ether Drive Market Bounce Back

Memecoins Fall to July Lows While Bitcoin & Ether Drive Market Bounce Back

The recent cryptocurrency market turmoil has significantly impacted meme tokens, leading their collective valuation to plummet to levels unseen since July. After a sharp decline prompted by Friday’s broad crypto market correction, memecoin capitalization has experienced a notable dip, signaling a possible shift in retail investor enthusiasm. Meanwhile, other sectors such as NFTs and established [...]

Author: Crypto Breaking News

2025/10/16

Ethereum's "Second Curve" of Growth: TradFi and AI Enter the Market Simultaneously, and a Trillion-Dollar Settlement Layer Surpassing the EVM Quietly Takes Shape

Ethereum's "Second Curve" of Growth: TradFi and AI Enter the Market Simultaneously, and a Trillion-Dollar Settlement Layer Surpassing the EVM Quietly Takes Shape

On September 3, Etherealize, which calls itself "the institutional-grade product, BD, and marketing department of the Ethereum ecosystem," disclosed a $40 million financing round. In addition to the lead investors from Electric Capital and Paradigm, more noteworthy is the direct participation of Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum Foundation. To some extent, this investment symbolizes the Ethereum community’s firm support for a professional and institutional development path. In fact, it also sends a clear signal that Ethereum’s growth logic is shifting from “capacity expansion” to the spillover and integration of the “application layer”. If we look back, we will find that from the DeFi wave in 2020-2021, to the subsequent CeDeFi practice, and then to the accelerated integration into TradFi today - Ethereum's innovation in traditional finance is constantly "survival of the fittest." The development of Ethereum is moving from the "infrastructure construction period" to the "application explosion and ecological reconstruction period", and the trillion-dollar "second curve" is taking shape. 01. After the expansion, the new growth engine is switching As we all know, the main theme of Ethereum's development has always been "scaling". With the maturity of L2 Rollup solutions such as Arbitrum and Optimism in recent years, and the gradual advancement or implementation of basic protocols such as Danksharding and EIP-4844, Ethereum's basic computing power and throughput have been significantly improved, especially the L2 ecosystem has built a solid "execution layer" foundation. It can be said that after years of exploration, Ethereum has initially solved the problem of "usability", but what is more difficult is to answer the next question - who will use it and how will it be used? After all, the challenges facing Ethereum have never been as severe as they are now: On the one hand, high-performance public chains such as Solana and Sui are eroding the on-chain market with their “faster and cheaper” positioning; On the other hand, traditional Web2 giants such as Visa, Stripe, Paypal, Robinhood and even Fidelity are also launching their own public chains or integrating decentralized clearing and settlement systems to improve their Crypto/TradFi layout; Looking back over the past five years, at the application level, Ethereum is undoubtedly a hotbed of innovation and almost the best "composable on-chain financial laboratory." From DeFi, NFT to DAO, GameFi, and SocialFi, it has supported the entire Web3 experimental wave. However, innovations at this stage are primarily targeted at Web3 native users and are essentially still limited to the "self-circulation of on-chain capital." In other words, while funds circulate and protocols are stacked on-chain, real-world assets, institutions, and users remain on the sidelines. Web3, while logically self-consistent, struggles to align with the demands of the real financial world. In this competitive landscape, Ethereum's technological leadership is no longer a defensive moat. To continue its growth, it must address a more ambitious question: how can it transcend the boundaries of Web3 itself and become a truly global asset settlement layer? The new growth comes from outside of Web3 – the computing power demand of AI and the settlement demand of traditional finance, which simultaneously push it into a new cycle: The most typical example is the wave of RWA (real-world assets) tokenization - traditional financial institutions such as banks, securities companies, and fund companies are actively trying to move assets such as bonds, stocks, and fund shares onto the blockchain to achieve on-chain clearing and real-time settlement (further reading "Ethereum Narrative Shift: From World Computer to World Ledger, Is an On-Chain Central Bank About to Emerge?"). At the same time, as the monopoly of AI models and data intensifies, the AI industry is eager for a neutral and trusted settlement layer to solve core pain points, including model and data ownership confirmation, decentralized computing verification, and protection against centralized risks. In short, AI needs a globally verifiable computing layer to price trust, and blockchain itself is naturally adapted to this demand of AI. Of course, to support demands like TradFi and AI, Ethereum must undergo comprehensive upgrades in terms of performance, privacy, and modularity. 02. New Roadmap: Multi-pronged Progress in zkVM, AI, and Privacy To address these new demands, the Ethereum community and the Foundation are already advancing several key strategies. The following are the routes that are currently more public and widely discussed in the industry. The first is zkVM (zero-knowledge virtual machine), which is not only a technical extension of L2 expansion, but also a disruptive reshaping of the Ethereum mainnet's functions. For example, the Ethereum Foundation is currently promoting the mainnet-level zkVM architecture, which will replace repeated execution of transaction verification with zero-knowledge proof (ZKP), thereby greatly improving throughput and security. The core logic of zkVM lies in transforming the trust model. Traditional Ethereum relies on all nodes to replay transactions to reach consensus. The biggest advantage of zkVM is that it will enable verification nodes to no longer replay all transactions, but only need to verify proofs, greatly reducing synchronization and execution costs. Under this new architecture, the Ethereum mainnet is expected to completely become a "computational settlement layer," focusing on verifying ZK proofs and anchoring the final state, while L2 becomes an efficient "execution layer," enabling Ethereum to completely evolve from a blockchain to a globally verifiable computing layer. Just last month, Vitalik Buterin retweeted and praised the minimal zkVM proposed by Ethereum developers for streamlining Ethereum: optimized for XMSS aggregation and recursion, compared to Cairo, leanVM minimizes commitment costs with its four-instruction ISA, multi-linear STARKs, and logup lookups. Another clear signal is that on September 15, the Ethereum Foundation established the artificial intelligence team "dAI", which is committed to building a decentralized AI ecosystem. This also means that Ethereum is no longer just passively "used by AI", but actively "combined with AI". The core mission of the dAI team is to invest resources in defining the standards, incentives, and governance structures for AI models on the blockchain. This includes model credibility: how to ensure the transparency of AI model training data, how to use ZK technology to prove the integrity of model reasoning, and the development of new standards. For example, to better serve the AI ecosystem, the community is promoting new standards such as ERC-8004 and x402: ERC-8004: aims to build a "composable and accessible" decentralized AI infrastructure layer, allowing developers to easily build and integrate AI model services; x402: Dedicated to defining a unified on-chain payment and settlement standard to ensure efficient, atomic micropayments when users access AI models, store data, or use decentralized computing services on-chain. Through these efforts, Ethereum is trying to define the underlying protocol and settlement mechanism of decentralized AI, positioning itself as the "value settlement and trust layer of decentralized AI." In addition, in order to accommodate the trillions of assets in TradFi, Ethereum must resolve the contradiction between privacy and compliance, and its privacy roadmap has begun to be layered to meet the needs of different groups. Among them, institutional privacy and compliance (TradFi's core demand) focuses on exploring compliant privacy solutions on L2/L3. This means that institutions can conduct encrypted transactions and clearing on the chain, and at the same time provide auditable and verifiable transaction records to specific regulators (such as auditors and regulatory agencies) through zero-knowledge proof or permission control mechanisms, thereby protecting business secrets while meeting regulatory requirements. Personal privacy (Web3 user protection) solves the problems of MEV (miner extractable value) attacks and leakage of personal transaction data at the protocol layer through account abstraction (AA) and privacy-enhancing technologies on L2 (such as private transactions), ensuring that users' on-chain behavior is protected. These three routes - universality (zkVM), application boundaries (dAI/new standards) and compliance (privacy) - together constitute Ethereum's core "second curve" strategy for AI and TradFi needs. 03. What if the “Second Curve” transition is successful? Just like the DeFi wave from 2020 to 2021, the subsequent CeDeFi practice, and the latest major strides into TradFi, Ethereum's approach to innovating global finance has always been "survival of the fittest." Therefore, Ethereum’s current “super evolution” is not easy, but once the leap is successful, its ecology and status will be completely reshaped. First, Ethereum will be upgraded from an "application platform" for Web3 native users to a "computing power and financial infrastructure platform" for the world's mainstream economies. Its position in the global financial system will be more solid, becoming the de facto "global value settlement layer." As a result, more and more high-value businesses (such as institutional-grade RWA, AI model verification, and decentralized data markets) will choose to be deployed directly on Ethereum or its zk-native structure, forming a huge liquidity pool and trust guarantee. Then the L2/Rollups ecosystem will evolve into a "collaborative network". They will no longer be "independent public chains" fighting each other, but will be more deeply connected with the main network zk layer, focusing on providing different execution environments (EVM, ZKVM, privacy customization, etc.). Ultimately, sub-ecosystems such as underlying stablecoins, privacy protocols, data oracles, and AI model markets are expected to rise and provide the necessary "middleware" for institutions and AI. Overall, the emerging “second curve” of Ethereum marks its leap from a “cryptocurrency computing layer” to a “global trust and settlement layer”—no longer just a paradise for speculators, but rapidly transforming into an indispensable financial primitive in the global economic infrastructure. After all, the AI industry needs its trusted neutrality, and traditional finance needs its efficient compliance. ZKVM, the AI team, and the privacy roadmap are Ethereum's combined punch to meet these two trillion-dollar needs. Please believe that the best times are yet to come.

Author: PANews

2025/10/16

Venom Foundation: blockchain fees drop below a cent

Venom Foundation: blockchain fees drop below a cent

The Venom Foundation has published a comparative research on the transaction fees of the world's top ten blockchains.

Author: The Cryptonomist

2025/10/16

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