Bitcoin rebounds from near $80,000 as macro selloff hits crypto and equities
A hot inflation print put a Fed rate hike back in play, sending risk assets lower before Bitcoin recovered from just under $80,000.
CoinDesk · +14 outlets
Ledger finds LTE implant that stole recovery phrases in suspected $86M drain
Ledger has asked resellers across seven Asian markets to pull devices after discovering hardware that exfiltrated seed phrases, with Trezor also cutting reselle
Decrypt · +3 outlets
Russia's largest bank Sberbank wins approval to trade Bitcoin
The approval marks a further opening of regulated crypto trading inside Russia despite Western sanctions.
Decrypt · +10 outlets
Standard Chartered opens Bitcoin and Ether trading to professional investors in UAE
The bank is extending crypto trading to wealthy UAE clients as institutional access broadens in the Gulf.
Decrypt · +13 outlets
Kraken owner Payward to acquire Lithuania's Saldo Bank in EU push
The deal would give the exchange-owner a licensed banking foothold inside the European Union.
Decrypt · +14 outlets
Coinbase presses for Bitcoin quantum migration to begin now
Coinbase warns the migration could take years, as Starknet opens a vote on potentially exiting Ethereum L2 over quantum risk.
Decrypt · +8 outlets
Hex founder Richard Heart detained in Istanbul on Interpol red notice: report
The detention follows years of regulatory scrutiny of Heart's Hex, PulseChain and PulseX token ventures.
Decrypt · +14 outlets
Brooklyn prosecutors take down 112 servers behind crypto scam targeting Russian speakers
The takedown is among the largest infrastructure seizures tied to a crypto investment fraud network.
Decrypt · +9 outlets
Zcash crash wipes billions from privacy coin's market cap
ZEC fell sharply in a broader risk-off crypto move, raising questions about the sustainability of its recent rally.
Coinmarketcap · +11 outlets
Strive buys $280M in Bitcoin, treasury reaches 32,773 BTC
The purchase is the company's largest in months, adding a new large corporate buyer to the Bitcoin treasury ranks.
cointelegraph.com · +12 outlets
Binance shuts down its Bitcoin mining pool after six years
The closure removes one of the larger pools from a mining sector that has been consolidating.
Decrypt · +14 outlets
Monero outpaces Bitcoin against its all-time high as privacy demand holds up
Monero's relative resilience is drawing attention to who holds the privacy coin and why, alongside a pending FCMP++ upgrade.
finance.yahoo · +14 outlets
BitMEX sued in UK for return of $27M in Bitcoin over unlicensed derivatives
The suit adds to legal pressure on offshore derivatives venues over UK licensing rules.
Decrypt · +3 outlets
Solana sets a date for its next major network upgrade
Scheduling the upgrade gives developers and validators a firm timeline for the next set of protocol changes.
Decrypt · +14 outlets
Babylon advances Bitcoin lending proposal on Aave V4
The move would bring native Bitcoin staking collateral into one of DeFi's largest lending markets.
TradingView · +4 outlets
ENS proposes moving Ethereum domain registrations to upgraded system
The proposal would migrate naming registrations to a newer contract architecture on Ethereum.
cointelegraph.com · +12 outlets
AI agents made 138 million crypto payments in a year, most were tiny
The on-chain data shows agent-driven payments are numerous but individually small, undercutting claims of large-scale autonomous commerce.
Decrypt
Bybit expands beyond crypto as CEO outlines next phase of financial platform
The exchange is pushing into broader financial services as competition among trading venues intensifies.
Decrypt · +1 outlets