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Citi's Bitcoin Custody Push: Traditional Finance Makes Its Institutional Play
Citibank is gearing up to enter the bitcoin custody game. The banking giant plans to launch bitcoin custody services later this year through its new ...
Winklevoss-Backed Zcash Mining Operation Goes Live With $33M Capital Injection
Cypherpunk Mining has officially launched operations, bringing approximately 4. 2 GSol/s of Equihash hashrate online across multiple US locations.
Chainalysis Takes Fight to Federal Court Over $94.6M ICE Contract Loss to TRM Labs
Chainalysis isn't going down quietly after losing a major government contract. The blockchain forensics powerhouse just filed a formal bid protest in...
Kraken Expands Into Equities Trading, Giving European Users Access to US Stocks
Kraken just made a significant move into traditional finance by launching US-listed stock trading for eligible customers in the European Economic Area...
Fiji Boots 'Crypto Program' Mastermind as $165M Ponzi Scheme Unravels
Fiji's government has deported Edward Zimbardi back to the United States to face criminal charges tied to an alleged $165 million cryptocurrency Ponzi...
FATF Scrutiny May Force DeFi Toward Real Decentralization, Says Curve's Egorov
Michael Egorov, the founder of Curve Finance, is making a contrarian argument: regulatory pressure from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) could u...
Blockchain Association Endorses SEC Plan to Modernize 30-Year-Old Market Rules for Digital Assets
The Blockchain Association is backing the SEC's push to eliminate outdated NMS (National Market System) rules that have become roadblocks for tokeniza...
Austria's FMA Slaps Bitpanda With €70K Fine: Europe's First Public MiCA Enforcement Action
Austria's Financial Market Authority (FMA) has handed down a €70,000 penalty to Bitpanda, marking the first publicly disclosed enforcement action unde...
South Korea Clamps Down on Polymarket, Citing Gambling Framework Violations
The Korea Media and Communications Commission (KMCC) has taken direct aim at Polymarket, the prediction market platform, declaring it operates as ille...
Ripple Expands Korean Footprint with Jeonbuk Bank Cross-Border Deal
Ripple continues its aggressive push into South Korea's financial system. The company just locked in a partnership with Jeonbuk Bank—a move that sign...
South Korea's Jeonbuk Bank Adopts Ripple Infrastructure: Strategic Move Into Asian Cross-Border Payments
Ripple's enterprise payments division just secured another foothold in South Korea's banking sector. Jeonbuk Bank, a regional player in the country's...
Former Crypto Scheme Operator Extradited from Fiji to Face $165M Ponzi Charges in US Court
Edward Zimbardi is now facing serious federal charges after US authorities extradited him from Fiji, marking the culmination of an investigation into ...
Binance's bStocks Surge While BitMart Implodes: Asia's Crypto Drama Intensifies
Binance's tokenized stocks platform is already making waves. Just two months after launch, bStocks has claimed the number two spot among tokenized st...
Payward Taps Anthropic's Advanced AI Arsenal to Fortify Crypto Exchange Security
Kraken's parent company Payward is now part of Project Glasswing, Anthropic's selective initiative designed to grant vetted organizations early access...
Minnesota Targets Grok's Image Generation: First State to Ban AI Nudification Tool
Minnesota is making moves that could reshape how AI developers approach content moderation—and Elon Musk's xAI isn't happy about it. The state recen...
Trump-Backed Crypto Firm Gets Federal Banking Charter Nod—With Strings Attached
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) just handed a conditional approval to World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency venture backed b...
Tokenized Equities Race Past $2.8B as Ondo, Binance and xStocks Lead Explosive Growth
The tokenized equities market just hit a critical inflection point. Market share has tripled since January, now commanding 15% of what was previously...
Treasury Lays Out New Gatekeeping Rules: Only Banks and Special Entities Can Sell Stablecoins by 2027
The US Treasury Department is drawing a hard line around stablecoin issuance. Starting in 2027, exchanges and most crypto platforms will be legally b...
Binance Eyes UK Return: Fresh FCA License Push Could Reshape European Crypto Landscape
Binance is plotting a comeback in the UK market after nearly three years in the regulatory wilderness. According to recent reports, the world's large...
Ethereum's Privacy Overhaul Could Reshape DeFi Fee Economics
Ethereum's core development team is zeroing in on privacy enhancements that could fundamentally alter how decentralized finance operates. The initiat...