Crypto stocks down, IPOs punted amid tariff tumult

Crypto stocks down, IPOs punted amid tariff tumult

Crypto firms take a hit as Trump’s new tariffs rattle markets, sinking stocks and stalling IPO ambitions across sectors. Cryptocurrency firms felt the heat from US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff rollout this week as market turbulence sent share prices tumbling and foiled initial public offering (IPO) plans.  From exchanges to Bitcoin (BTC) miners, crypto…

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EY updates privacy L2 as nixed Tornado Cash sanctions ease fears

EY updates privacy L2 as nixed Tornado Cash sanctions ease fears

EY’s enterprise blockchain Nightfall is now a zero-knowledge rollup as it says corporations are again comfortable with privacy tools with easing Tornado Cash sanctions. Big Four accounting firm EY, formerly Ernst & Young, has changed its enterprise-focused Ethereum layer-2 blockchain Nightfall to a zero-knowledge rollup design as it says corporate clients are more comfortable with…

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Curve Finance clocks B trading volume in Q1 2025

Curve Finance clocks $35B trading volume in Q1 2025

It has also seen a strong uptick in transaction activity over the past 12 months, the DeFi protocol said. Curve Finance, a decentralized lending protocol and exchange, notched record-breaking trading volumes of nearly $35 billion in the first quarter of 2025, a spokesperson for the protocol told Cointelegraph.  Trading volumes increased more than 13% from…

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Ethereum's weekly blob fees hit 2025 lows

Ethereum's weekly blob fees hit 2025 lows

Ethereum’s income from L2 blob fees has dropped over 95% since mid-March, raising concerns about the network’s post-Dencun revenue model. The Ethereum network’s main source of income from layer-2 (L2) scaling chains — “blob fees” — has sunk to the lowest weekly levels so far this year, according to data from Etherscan.  In the week…

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