The Trump administration is considering leveraging stablecoins to strengthen the U.S. dollar's global dominance, potentially through partnerships with private companies to promote USD-backed digital currencies worldwide.
The Virtual Asset Technical Exchange brings together investigators, law enforcement officials, and crypto-security specialists to exchange intelligence on a wide range of crimes involving digital assets.
THORChain declined Bitget's request to block transactions from a hacker who swapped $6.3 million in ether for bitcoin after the exchange lost $388 million in a September breach, citing that the network's emergency controls cannot selectively freeze individual addresses.
Chainlink has launched CCIP 2.0, adding customizable security layers to its cross‑chain bridge to prevent single‑point failures after a high‑profile hack.
Historical data shows bitcoin posted long-term gains after regaining its 365-day trendline following extended slumps, though analysts caution the pattern is not foolproof.
New York has filed a lawsuit against Polymarket, accusing the prediction market platform of operating an unlicensed gambling business in the state and seeking to halt its activities without a gambling license while reclaiming alleged illegal profits.
EU regulators caution that sufficiently advanced quantum computers could break blockchain cryptography before the technology reaches broad commercial use. Roughly 6.9 million bitcoin in wallets with exposed public keys could be at risk.
Developers are starting to fold Project Tachyon into Zakura Common as they work toward a long-term target of more than 50,000 private payments a second.
Blockchain Association CEO Summer Mersinger is stepping down after the failure of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, with founding CEO Kristin Smith returning as interim leader.
Senator Cynthia Lummis said the crypto industry should "pin it on the Democrats" in her first public remarks after last week's failed Clarity Act vote.
The Virtual Asset Technical Exchange brings together investigators, law enforcement officials, and crypto-security specialists to exchange intelligence on a wide range of crimes involving digital assets.
KelpDAO has sued LayerZero and co-founder Brian Pellegrino, alleging that undisclosed protocol weaknesses enabled a $292 million rsETH bridge exploit. Pellegrino rejected the claims as meritless and pledged to defend the case in British Columbia.
Crypto investment firm RockawayX is investing $150 million to bring private credit and yield-generating assets onchain, betting that real-economy lending will become a major crypto market. The firm launched Catapult, aiming to grow tokenized real-world assets from $38 billion to $10–20 trillion by 2030.