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MegaETH has launched its public mainnet as a high speed Ethereum layer 2 that targets more than 100,000 transactions per second with near instant confirmations, after a global stress test processed over 10.3 billion transactions in a week at 10,000 to 22,000 transactions per second. Backed by a 20 million dollar seed round and a 450 million dollar token sale in 2025 that sold about 5 percent of its 10 billion MEGA supply with support from figures like Vitalik Buterin and Joseph Lubin, the project uses powerful data center style sequencers and specialized node roles to chase ultra low latency at the cost of higher hardware requirements and a looser decentralization profile. Its debut comes just as Vitalik questions the old rollup centric roadmap and calls for L2s to justify themselves with real advantages such as privacy or extreme performance, which supporters say MegaETH delivers, while critics warn that its success will hinge on sustaining promised throughput in production without worsening liquidity fragmentation across Ethereum’s already crowded scaling landscape.

Strategy, one of the largest corporate holders of bitcoin, is launching a dedicated Bitcoin Security Program to prepare for long term risks from quantum computing by funding research, tools and potential upgrade paths for quantum resistant cryptography. Michael Saylor says the firm will coordinate with global cybersecurity and bitcoin security communities to map which coins are most exposed, explore alternative signature schemes and outline practical migration options, while stressing that serious quantum attacks are still likely many years away and that the goal is calm preparation rather than rushed protocol changes.

Bitcoin fell below 70,000 dollars on Bitstamp, hitting about 69,100 dollars in one of the cycle’s weakest moments, with sentiment gauges sliding into “extreme fear” as the broader market continued a downtrend from the October peak near 126,000 dollars. The selloff was heavier on Bitstamp than on other venues like Coinbase, suggesting concentrated selling there, while gold and silver also dropped sharply even as U.S. equity futures ticked slightly higher, showing that the stress is focused on crypto and metals rather than all risk assets. Bitcoin exposed stocks such as Strategy, other treasury style holders, exchanges and major miners extended their declines, many already far below prior highs. Analysts now warn that price could drift toward the 60,000 dollar area before a durable bottom forms, as the market still looks to be searching for support rather than stabilizing.

Vitalik Buterin said Ethereum’s original “rollup centric” roadmap no longer matches reality, because the base layer has become faster and cheaper than expected while most layer 2 rollups have not decentralized as promised and still depend on centralized sequencers and multisig control. He is now treating his rollup stage framework as a legitimacy test, arguing that Stage 1 decentralization with live, permissionless proofs and limited governance overrides should be the minimum bar for any L2 that wants to be seen as core Ethereum infrastructure. His comments have pushed rollup teams like Arbitrum, Optimism, Base and Starknet to defend and clarify their roadmaps, while analysts warn that many generic L2 tokens look less certain if their networks cannot prove real trust minimization. The message to builders and investors is that L2s are not dead, but only those that achieve strong decentralization and clear reasons to exist beyond cheap blockspace are likely to be treated as part of Ethereum’s long term backbone.

Tether, issuer of USDT, has launched MiningOS, an open source, self hosted operating system for bitcoin miners that replaces proprietary management suites with a modular peer to peer stack for everything from home rigs to multi site farms. It lets operators monitor hashrate, power use and machine health through an encrypted local network and unified dashboard, avoids vendor lock in, and is released under an Apache 2.0 license with an SDK so developers can build plugins and custom tools on top. With MiningOS now live, Tether joins efforts like Block’s open source mining work in trying to make bitcoin mining infrastructure more transparent, customizable and less dependent on a few large commercial platforms.

A new CertiK report says “wrench attacks” on crypto holders jumped 75% in 2025, with at least 72 verified cases where criminals used threats, home invasions, kidnappings or assaults to force victims to unlock wallets or hand over seed phrases, causing more than 40 million dollars in confirmed losses. Europe is now the main hotspot, accounting for over 40% of incidents, with France alone logging 19 cases as organized groups increasingly track on-chain identities and social media to target wealthy holders. The report calls this a “technical paradox,” where stronger digital security pushes criminals toward physical coercion, and notes that even Lloyd’s of London now offers insurance that explicitly covers such attacks, highlighting that personal privacy and physical safety are now core parts of crypto security, not just passwords and cold storage.