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Ethereum may finally kill “trust me” wallets in 2026, and Vitalik says the fix is already shipping

Vitalik Buterin framed 2026 as the year Ethereum reverses a decade of convenience-first compromises. His thesis: the protocol stayed trustless, but the defaults drifted. Wallets outsourced verification to centralized RPCs.…

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Crypto Cards Gain Ground in Real-World Payments, Surging from $100M to $1.5B: Report

Crypto-linked card payments have surpassed peer-to-peer (P2P) stablecoin transfers as the leading driver of on-chain stablecoin activity. A new study by blockchain analytics firm Artemis revealed that these transactions have…

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Bitcoin is lagging while metals soar, but this rare divergence preceded every major crypto breakout since 2019

Gold and copper have moved higher even as the Federal Reserve continues to signal patience on rate cuts, a divergence that shows how markets tend to price liquidity conditions ahead…

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