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Coinbase’s Jesse Pollak said he is stepping back from leading the Base app after acknowledging that his bet on an onchain social economy failed to drive crypto adoption as he had expected.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, the clearinghouse that processes U.S. securities transactions, on Wednesday launched a pilot to test tokenized stocks and U.S. Treasuries with nearly 40 financial institution…
Researchers found that Polymarket’s five-minute Bitcoin prediction markets create incentives to manipulate spot prices around contract settlement, proposing longer settlement windows as a potential fix.
Bitcoin moved up to its highest levels since June 22 as US PPI inflation numbers provided the week’s second surprise macro data drop.
Investment giant Cantor Fitzgerald and cryptocurrency-focused broker-dealer Securitize (SECZ), are revamping initial public offerings (IPOs) with tokenization and blockchain technology, the companies said on Wednesday.
Surging volumes on Robinhood Chain could be very good for Ethereum, but only if the “ETH is money” crowd turn out to be right.
Wall Street had a solid Tuesday, but Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto market finds itself on less steady ground.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the backbone of the U.S. securities settlement system, on Wednesday processed its first series of live production trades involving tokenized securities, marking one of…
Ostium halted trading and advised revoking contract approvals after blockchain security firms reported an apparent oracle-related exploit of its OLP liquidity vault, with estimated losses ranging from $18 million to $22…
A major UK review of fraud has recommended that judges and magistrates be trained to handle a coming wave of cases involving cryptocurrency money laundering and fraud powered by artificial intelligence.
The deployment marks Aave V4’s first expansion beyond Ethereum and introduces lending infrastructure designed to support future markets for tokenized real-world assets.
Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy will start buying the cryptocurrency again once its preferred shares recover, CEO Phong Le said, as the company leans on a retooled financing model to ride out the crypto downturn.
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BTC price upside predictions include $68,000 within two weeks and up to $80,000 next month, contrasting with warnings of a 2022 bear-market rerun for the rest of 2026.
Open USD, a bank-backed group developing a dollar-pegged stablecoin, is the most credible threat yet to Circle Internet's (CRCL) USDC because it targets the economics at the heart of the company’s business, crypto asset…
Payments giant Stripe offered to buy PayPal (PYPL) in a deal worth $53 billion, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
South Korea’s Economy Ministry plans to include digital assets and intellectual property under the country’s new state-asset management framework.
The Czech Finance Ministry added Polymarket to its blacklist of unauthorized online gambling websites, requiring internet providers to block access within 15 days.
The U.S. and UK have laid out a joint roadmap for aligning how they regulate stablecoins, tokenized assets, and digital money, a coordinated push by two of the world's largest financial centres to let blockchain-based f…
The group that spent the past year running the Ethereum Foundation's institutional privacy work has spun out to start its own company. EthSystems launched Tuesday as an independent, for-profit firm building privacy and …
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AMLA is expanding its crypto oversight as firms complete the transition to the EU’s MiCA licensing regime.
Bitcoin held near a three-week high and ether steadied around its highest since June 3 as U.S.-Iran hostilities capped gains from a softer-than-expected U.S. inflation report on Tuesday.
“We are disappointed by this decision and believe it is unfair to Kalshi,” the company’s legal counsel said on X.