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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is preparing to take a major step toward formal crypto regulation. The Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act before its August recess. As a result, the SEC will hold …
Solana ETFs recorded $8.8 million in net inflows in a single day, marking their strongest daily inflow since May 12 after several months of limited activity. The renewed ETF demand comes as Solana continues to see growt…
SK Hynix has become the largest shareholder of Japanese memory chipmaker Kioxia, with its investment vehicle SPC2 holding a 14.19% stake. The position dates back to SK Hynixâs 2018 investment of about 4 trillion won t…
MNT price has gained nearly 5%, rebounding from the July lows and reclaiming key short-term moving averages.
Trump Media & Technology Group reported a $238 million net loss for the second quarter of 2026, more than 10 times its loss a year earlier, as falling crypto prices weighed heavily on its results.
Patrick Witt says the Trump administration will keep negotiating with Democrats as the Senate prepares for a September CLARITY vote.
Decta will use USDC through OpenPayd’s infrastructure for international treasury settlement, seeking faster transfers and more efficient liquidity management.
The world's commercial ships (the vessels themselves, not the cargo they carry) are worth an estimated $2 trillion in total. Yet the market financing their purchase and construction remains closed and relationship-drive…
The co-chairs of Parliament's Crypto and Digital Assets All-Party Parliamentary Group have written to the chief executives of every major UK bank, asking them to explain how they treat crypto and digital asset firms.
Meanwhile, Hayes believes fresh liquidity could increase demand for major crypto assets.
Luke Dashjr lost his BIP editor privileges after developers raised concerns over his role in BIP 110 and its stalled minority fork.
XRP Ledger transactions dropped 44%, showing weaker network activity and demand.
Node provider BTCPay Server said Tuesday it is funding a bounty for the return of bitcoin stolen from merchants last week, offering 10% of whatever is recovered up to a maximum of 3 BTC, worth roughly $190,000 at curren…
South Korea will remove its 1 million won Travel Rule threshold and apply information-sharing requirements to all transfers between registered crypto service providers.
Victims of crypto and trading platform scams often lose critical evidence before they realize they need it. Investigators say the first hours after a withdrawal problem appears can determine whether a fraud case is full…
Trump Media says it will take a more disciplined approach to its crypto treasury while directing more resources toward its core media business.
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The big picture: In an interview on CoinDesk’s Public Keys, Bitwise Head of Research Ryan Rasmussen said investors are underestimating Circle’s opportunity as stablecoins move toward a multi-trillion-dollar market.
A New York judge granted a motion filed by US prosecutors in July to stay the CFTC’s civil case against Gannon Ken Van Dyke over making more than $400,000 on prediction markets.
Remember when black-hat SEOs stuffed web pages with white-on-white keywords—invisible to readers, readable to Google—to game the search rankings? Hackers are doing the same thing with AI models now. The attacker hides i…
Messari reported that TRON recorded all-time highs in stablecoin supply and network activity during the second quarter, while DeFi and decentralized exchange activity declined.
Australia's financial-crime regulator AUSTRAC has pulled the plug on the country's largest Bitcoin and crypto ATM network.
Wall Street banks financing the AI data center boom are paying closer attention to opposition from communities where projects are planned.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says quantum resistance, privacy, and AI-assisted security have become greater priorities for Ethereum since he published his 2023 roadmap.