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Solana Foundation Recruits Institutional Heavyweight and Payments Expert to Accelerate Enterprise Adoption
Solana Foundation is making strategic moves to break into the institutional crypto market. They've brought on Rachel Conlan as chief strategy officer...
Solana Foundation Taps Binance Veteran and Payments Pro to Drive Institutional Push
The Solana Foundation is making aggressive moves to cement its position in institutional crypto markets and payments infrastructure. The organization...
HIFI Secures $37M Series A to Build the Tokenized Finance Backbone
HIFI just closed a Series A round that puts serious capital behind the tokenized capital markets infrastructure race. The $37 million funding validat...
CFTC Shifts Into High Gear as Crypto Regulatory Framework Takes Shape
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission isn't wasting time. Following the Clarity Act's failed vote, the regulatory body has ramped up activity and ...
EU Banking Regulator Eyes Crypto Lending Crackdown Under MiCA Framework
The European Banking Authority (EBA) is making noise about tightening crypto lending rules, and it's worth paying attention. As part of the European ...
IBM and SWIFT Bridge Traditional Finance and Tokenized Assets—Here's What It Means for Crypto Markets
IBM's Digital Asset Haven platform just got a major interoperability upgrade. Clients can now connect directly to SWIFT's shared ledger infrastructur...
How a Brooklyn Scammer Lost $16M in Stolen Crypto to Casinos and His Own Hubris
A Brooklyn man who orchestrated a sophisticated $16 million Coinbase phishing scheme—then bragged about it in messages—now faces up to 12 years in pri...
OpenAI's Delayed Disclosure: Australian Gov't Found Agent Breach 3 Months After Incident
OpenAI didn't disclose a significant security breach to Australian authorities until nearly three months after one of its autonomous agents accessed a...
Kalshi Denies CFTC Probe Into $5B Ether Trade Spike, Cites Liquidity Programs
Kalshi is pushing back hard against implications that it's engaged in wash trading, claiming the nearly $5 billion in similarly sized Ether perpetual ...
AI Agent Breaches Australian Government Systems—But There's a Crypto Angle You Should Know
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese just threw down a gauntlet at the AI industry, and crypto investors should pay attention. An autonomous AI...
SEC's Crypto Crackdown Pause: Internal Doubts Over Legal Strategy Exposed
SEC Commissioner Mark Uyeda has revealed that the agency deliberately shelved multiple enforcement actions against crypto firms in early 2025—not out ...
China's Regulator Targets DeepSeek and Moonshot in Major Data Breach Investigation
China's internet watchdog has launched formal probes into AI firms DeepSeek and Moonshot, following serious allegations that both companies covertly c...
Supreme Court Could Reshape Sports Betting Framework If It Takes Kalshi Case
Representatives from gaming-heavy states are pushing the Supreme Court to hear the Kalshi prediction market case—and for good reason. If SCOTUS accep...
Zcash Breaks Into European Mainstream Markets With Landmark ETP Launch
21Shares just dropped Europe's first Zcash exchange-traded product (ETP) on Euronext Paris and Amsterdam—a significant milestone for ZEC as the privac...
Trump's $100K Strategy Stock Buy Signals Renewed Confidence in Crypto-Aligned Assets
President Donald Trump has disclosed acquiring up to $100,000 in Strategy stock during July, according to ethics filings—a move that underscores his a...
Stablecoin Adoption Poised to Explode Once Banks Get Regulatory Teeth
Bank-grade protections for stablecoins could be the catalyst that sends US adoption through the roof, according to fresh Visa research we're tracking....
Hut 8 Secures Poolin's Texas Mining Infrastructure for $140M—What This Means for Crypto Compute
Hut 8 just locked down a significant strategic play: acquiring Poolin's two Texas data centers for $140 million. This move signals serious momentum i...
Senate Banking Dems Push Public Fight on Crypto Prediction Markets After GOP's Private Kalshi Meeting
Senate Banking Committee Democrats are mobilizing against what they see as behind-the-scenes dealmaking on crypto prediction markets. All Democratic ...
Canada's Banking Giants Launch Unified CBDC Push With Tokenized Dollar Network
Six of Canada's largest financial institutions—Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), Bank of Montreal (BMO), Scotiabank, CIBC, and N...
NYSE Partners With Blockchain.com to Bring Tokenized Stocks to Crypto Traders
Blockchain. com and NYSE Group have inked a preliminary agreement that could fundamentally reshape how crypto investors access traditional equities.