Bitcoin has settled at around $52,000 after enjoying a strong start to the month; however, there are signs that the slow return of retail traders eventually may add momentum.

A new research paper has found theoretical attacks on the proof-of-work and proof-of-stake consensus mechanisms used in Bitcoin and Ethereum to be "economically unfeasible."

Decentralized crypto exchange Fixedfloat faced criticism related to a hack of the exchange for roughly $26 million worth of

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Ethereum Layer 2 network Starknet's new token, STRK, achieved a multi-billion-dollar market capitalization after being airdropped to millions of users.$BTC $BNB