In 2025, Ethereum sits at a crossroads. Once the undisputed king of smart contracts, it's facing undeniable challenges on multiple fronts. Vitalik is a great guy, don't get me wrong.He's changed the entire world and uh we owe everything to him. But we need to hold people accountable because it's much larger than an individual now. This is a community.It's a movement. Ether's price stagnated for too long. Competition from faster, cheaper layer 1 blockchains has accelerated and its dependence on layer 2s has ...

Ethereum was never just a token, but now the price of ETH has become an existential issue. What happens when the community starts questioning its own foundation. Vitalik is a great guy, don't get me wrong.He's changed the entire world and uh we owe everything to him. But we need to hold people accountable because it's much larger than an individual now. This is a community.It's a movement. Cointelegraph traveled to ETHC to uncover the truth behind this conflict. I would like to immediately accept there's re ...

Imagine opening your bank app and sending stable coin to a friend abroad. It arrives in seconds. Or it's Friday night, rent is due, and traditional bank transfers won't clear until Monday.So, you send stable coin and the money lands instantly in the landlord's bank account. This isn't science fiction. It's the financial future America is stepping into, thanks to the Genius Act.For the very first time, it gives federal recognition and regulation to stable coins, the digital dollars fueling much of today's cr ...

It's kind of depressing to see alts run because that usually brings us back down as a whole. The last Bitcoin rally seems to be running out of steam and now altcoins are still in the spotlight. But for Bitcoin maximalist Samson Mao, that's just noise.According to him, the real bull market hasn't even started yet. The bull market has legs and I think we can go probably anywhere up to 500,000 to a million in the next 12 months. In this interview, we sat down with Samson to explore Bitcoin's potential for the ...

What if your crypto could turn into real bank notes you can actually touch or be stored on a card so convenient you can pay with it yet secure enough to function as a cold wallet. These are just some of the innovations showcased at Harmony Meetup 7 in Yervan, Armenia where people worldwide came to see how Fastex is bridging digital and real world finance. Hey guys, we just arrived to Yervan, the capital of Armenia, and we are about to enter the event organized by Fastex.It's called Harmony. We're going to f ...

$120,000 for one Bitcoin. You've called for much higher in the past. Uh it's still pretty surreal to to see us hit that milestone over the weekend. Oh, I think it's very exciting um that people are starting to recognize the value of a better currency, a better store of value, more uh honest currency, a currency that keeps perfect records. You know, there were quite a few examples of where um what an old currency was overtaken by a new currency. My dad gave me a million dollar bill and I looked at it and I w ...

What if the most trustworthy digital currency wasn't built in Silicon Valley. [Music] Deep in Central Asia, a bold experiment is unfolding. In a country where cash is still king.[Music] Okay. So, cash cash only cash only. They've launched something revolutionary.A goldbacked stable coin issued under government oversight. [Music] Can a small nation rewrite the rules of money. [Music] Gold, blockchain, central Asia.This isn't just another crypto project. It's a test case for the future of finance. ...

The Ethereum community is much stronger. It's just temporarily demotivated. I still feel very very much that pain that all the users feel.Absolutely no chance that defa will not dominate all the global markets. It will be there. It will happen on Ethereum.Hide from ECC here in K. We are celebrating 10 years of Ethereum and we are exploring the future of Ethereum. It's a fantastic uh opportunity to chat to Tomas Stanjak who's the co-executive director of the Ethereum Foundation.A new role for you. Let's star ...

Blockchain games were supposed to change everything. True ownership, real rewards a revolution in how we play. But what did we get instead.Clunky projects, shallow gameplay. Economies that collapsed overnight. So when someone says there is a new blockchain game launching, yeah, we are skeptical and we should be.But this one, Valhalla might actually be different. Valhalla is an NFT metaverse game built by the Floki team and its global community. It's a full scale, browser based MMORPG, a massive online world ...

Some are calling them infinite money machines that will push Bitcoin to new all-time highs. Others say they are the next ticking time bomb in crypto. We are talking about Bitcoin treasury companies, firms that are accumulating Bitcoin on their balance sheets.Michael Sailor pioneered this strategy. Now others are copying the playbook. Some of these companies are registering eyepopping gains outperforming Bitcoin itself.But what if there is an invisible risk hidden in this model. You know, when we're kind of ...