Blockchain Foundations

Ethereum, the second-largest blockchain by market capitalization, continues to evolve with its latest major protocol upgrade, Pectra, scheduled for mainnet activation on May 7, 2025. Combining the Prague (execution layer) and Electra (consensus layer) upgrades, Pectra introduces 11 Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) aimed at enhancing scalability, validator efficiency, user experience,

Crypto wallets were once just tools. Now, they’re digital strongholds holding not just assets, but identities, reputations, and access to entire ecosystems. But with every new layer of innovation comes a new wave of exploitation. In 2025, securing your wallet isn’t optional, it’s survival. We’ve seen

In recent years, Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) have gone from an academic curiosity to a cornerstone of the next generation of blockchain, privacy-preserving computation, and verifiable applications. But while the potential of ZKPs is massive, the barriers to adoption have been just as significant. Traditionally, implementing ZKPs required expertise in advanced

Introduction Imagine if writing a zero-knowledge proof was as straightforward as crafting any other Rust program—no exotic DSLs, no wrestling with specialized tooling, just cargo prove and you’re off to the races. That’s precisely the promise of Succinct SP1 zkVM: a zkVM that runs standard Rust (or

Overview The UK’s draft Financial Services and Markets Act amendments aim to bring crypto exchanges, dealers, and agents under the same transparency, consumer-protection, and operational-resilience standards as traditional finance firms Financial News London. These rules promise to reshape on-chain user experiences by tightening KYC flows, enhancing platform security, and