The Merkle

The Merkle

The Merkle (also known as The Merkle Hash) is a long-standing source of information regarding technology, finance, and cryptocurrency. It specializes in deep-dive articles on blockchain security, privacy-focused tech, and emerging financial technologies.

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F2Pool Co-Founder Chun Wang Withdraws $29M in ETH From Binance

F2Pool Co-Founder Chun Wang Withdraws $29M in ETH From Binance

Chun Wang is making a move the market cannot ignore. The F2Pool co-founder, one of the most recognized names in crypto mining and infrastructure, has withdrawn

Zcash Proposes Ironwood, A New Shielded Pool to Restore Supply Verification After Orchard Vulnerability

Zcash Proposes Ironwood, A New Shielded Pool to Restore Supply Verification After Orchard Vulnerability

Zcash’s core development teams are not waiting around. Following the discovery and emergency remediation of a critical counterfeiting vulnerability in the Orchard

Joseph Lubin’s Dormant Ethereum Wallet Moves $121M ETH

Joseph Lubin’s Dormant Ethereum Wallet Moves $121M ETH

A wallet linked to Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin has moved for the first time in over three years, transferring $121.6 million worth of ETH into DeFi amid a

Michael Saylor Breaks Down Bitcoin’s Four Ideologies And Warns Against Picking Just One

Michael Saylor Breaks Down Bitcoin’s Four Ideologies And Warns Against Picking Just One

Michael Saylor just handed the Bitcoin community something to argue about for weeks. The Strategy Chairman published a framework that sorts Bitcoiners into four

Solana Largest Treasury Company Dumps 455,000 SOL as Price Crashes to Lowest Level in 2.5 Years

Solana Largest Treasury Company Dumps 455,000 SOL as Price Crashes to Lowest Level in 2.5 Years

Solana is having one of its worst weeks in recent memory, and the news keeps getting worse. The largest SOL treasury company on the market just deposited nearly

Hyperliquid Strategies Buys $95M Worth of HYPE in Seven Days While Barely Touching Its Cash

Hyperliquid Strategies Buys $95M Worth of HYPE in Seven Days While Barely Touching Its Cash

Hyperliquid Strategies, the decentralized autonomous trust behind the $PURR ticker, just pulled off something that turned heads across the crypto trading community

Arthur Hayes Dumps $18 Million in HYPE and NEAR

Arthur Hayes Dumps $18 Million in HYPE and NEAR

Arthur Hayes does not exit quietly. The BitMEX co-founder has liquidated his entire positions in Hyperliquid’s HYPE token and NEAR Protocol, offloading roughly $

Jupiter Launches Forecast, Solana’s First Fully Native Prediction Market With Competing Market Makers

Jupiter Launches Forecast, Solana’s First Fully Native Prediction Market With Competing Market Makers

Jupiter is not done building. The team behind one of Solana’s most used trading platforms just announced Forecast, a fully native prediction market that plugs directly

Ethena Expands Partnership With Anchorage Digital to Strengthen Institutional Lending

Ethena Expands Partnership With Anchorage Digital to Strengthen Institutional Lending

Ethena is not slowing down. The protocol just announced an expanded partnership with Anchorage Digital, a federally regulated crypto bank in the US, to push its

Mastercard Adds Stablecoin Settlement to Its Global Network, USDC, PYUSD, RLUSD and More Now Live

Mastercard Adds Stablecoin Settlement to Its Global Network, USDC, PYUSD, RLUSD and More Now Live

Mastercard just made one of its biggest moves into crypto yet. The global payments giant has announced it is expanding its settlement network to include regulated