A pruned node is a fully validating node that downloads and verifies the entire chain, then deletes the old block data it no longer needs. It keeps the current state and a small buffer of recent blocks, so it can…
More than 90,000 tokens have been issued on the XRPL, and the vast majority are abandoned, never traded, or outright scams, according to token market data from XRPL.to. For anyone auditing an asset, vetting a trust line, or building an…
Both Polkadot and Cosmos exist to solve the same problem: how do you build a custom blockchain that can talk to other chains without inheriting the congestion of a single shared Layer-1? They answer it in almost opposite ways. Cosmos…
If you build on Sui, you’re already on a clock. JSON-RPC — the interface nearly every blockchain app has relied on for years — is being switched off, and gRPC is what takes its place. That’s bigger than one chain,…
Every Ethereum developer knows the small jolt that comes with clicking “Deploy.” Once a smart contract lands on mainnet, the code is frozen — no edits, no undo, and any bug is now handling real money. That is exactly the…
Ethereum Fusaka Upgrade Explained: What Changed, What It Did, and What Comes Next Fusaka is live. Ethereum’s biggest data-scaling upgrade since Dencun activated on mainnet on December 3, 2025, and by early January 2026 the network had already tripled its…
You hit send on a crypto payment. Your wallet flips to “pending.” A minute passes, then five, and nothing moves. So where exactly is your transaction sitting in the meantime? The answer is the mempool — the waiting room every…
Most cryptocurrencies ask you to pay a fee to move money and wait for confirmation. Nano (ticker: XNO) does neither. Send any amount, to anyone, and the recipient sees it in well under a second — with nothing skimmed off…
Every crypto product — a wallet, a trading bot, a portfolio tracker, an analytics dashboard — needs one thing before it can show a single price: reliable market data. That data comes from a crypto API. Pick the right one…
One morning in September 2020, hundreds of thousands of people opened their wallets to find 400 UNI tokens they never asked for. It was a gift from Uniswap — worth roughly $1,200 that day, and about $16,800 for anyone who…