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European Regulator Takes Aim at Unauthorized Prediction Markets—Crypto's Legal Gray Zone Tightens
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) just fired a warning shot across the bow of prediction market platforms, and the message is cryst...
AI Model Abuse Growing: Claude Weaponized for Cyberattacks and Mass Surveillance
Anthropic just dropped a sobering reality check on crypto and tech markets: their flagship AI model Claude is actively being exploited for malicious p...
Sam Bankman-Fried's Supreme Court Plea: Why His Legal Team Says the Conviction Doesn't Hold Up
Sam Bankman-Fried is taking his fight to the highest court in the land. His legal team filed a petition with the Supreme Court challenging his FTX fr...
Bitwise Abandons Dogecoin ETF After Failing to Gain Traction
Bitwise is shutting down its Dogecoin ETF less than a year after launching the product, signaling weak demand for meme coin exposure through tradition...
SBF's Long-Shot Supreme Court Bid: Fighting $11B Forfeiture and Conviction
Sam Bankman-Fried isn't going quietly into his 25-year prison sentence. His legal team just filed a petition with the Supreme Court challenging both ...
Senate's Updated CLARITY Act Takes Aim at Centralized DeFi Players—But Ethics Rules Stay Put
The revised CLARITY Act is narrowing its regulatory crosshairs on "non-decentralized" DeFi operators, though the measure's controversial ethics provis...
Trezor's 347K User Email Breach: How a Brevo Login Flaw Opened the Door to Phishing
A significant security incident has rattled the crypto custody community. Trezor revealed that approximately 347,000 of its subscribers received phis...
SBF's Supreme Court Gambit: Challenging $11B Forfeiture and Fraud Conviction Over Missing Evidence
Sam Bankman-Fried is taking his fight to the highest court in the land. The disgraced FTX founder has petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn his fr...
Bitcoin Treasury Tensions: Metaplanet Faces Shareholder Revolt as Asia's Crypto Capital Emerges
Metaplanet shareholders are raising hell over equity distribution to company insiders—a growing pressure point that highlights governance concerns pla...
Senate Republicans Push Updated Crypto Framework to Streamline Digital Asset Regulation
Senate Republicans just dropped a revised version of their Clarity Act, and it's hitting the floor September 15. We're seeing meaningful shifts in ho...
Senate GOP Drops Updated Crypto Bill as Clarity Act Vote Looms
Senate Republicans are making their move on crypto regulation. A revised version of their marquee cryptocurrency legislation just hit the floor ahead...
AI-Powered Threats Force Banks Into Crisis-Mode Security: BIS Warns Speed Is Everything
The Bank for International Settlements just dropped a stark warning that's reshaping how financial institutions think about cyber defense. Routine pa...
UK House of Lords Pushes Treasury to Lock In Comprehensive Digital Asset Strategy
The UK House of Lords just threw down a gauntlet that the Treasury can't ignore: they're demanding a mandatory digital asset strategy that goes well b...
MoneyGram Enters the Stablecoin Card Arena, Mirroring Western Union's Blockchain Push
MoneyGram is doubling down on blockchain infrastructure with the launch of a Visa stablecoin debit card—a direct competitive response to Western Union...
Brussels Under Pressure to Lift Tokenized Securities Restrictions
European finance and tokenization groups are lobbying hard to remove asset caps on distributed ledger technology (DLT) infrastructure, or at minimum e...
Claude's Fourth Security Breach Exposes Growing Vulnerabilities in AI Safety Testing
Anthropic just disclosed another Claude security incident—the fourth one on record—and the framing matters here. The company initially blamed testing...
MoneyGram Enters the Stablecoin Card Game With Colombian Debut
MoneyGram is making its play in the stablecoin ecosystem with a major product launch: a Visa card backed by stablecoins, developed in partnership with...
Citadel Pushes SEC to Regulate Prediction Markets Tied to Major Companies
Citadel Securities is escalating pressure on the SEC to establish clear oversight of event contracts pegged to publicly traded companies, directly cha...
Nasdaq Pumps $100M Into Kraken's Parent Company as Institutional Crypto Push Accelerates
Nasdaq Ventures is doubling down on crypto infrastructure, committing $100 million to Payward—the parent company behind major exchange Kraken. This i...
Three Former Central Bankers Bring Heavy Artillery to Fnality's European Expansion Play
Fnality Europe just assembled a supervisory board lineup that reads like a who's-who of global central banking. Jon Cunliffe, the former Bank of Engl...