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Figure Technology, a publicly traded blockchain-based lender, disclosed that hackers accessed customer information after an employee was targeted in a social engineering attack. The company said the incident allowed an...

Russia’s central bank, the Bank of Russia, on February 12 announced plans to examine whether it should issue a ruble-backed stablecoin, marking a shift from its previous opposition to fiat-pegged...

China plans to reform its power sector by creating a unified national electricity market, using blockchain to track green energy use. A new policy from the State Council lays out...

Companies tied to U.S. President Donald Trump are making another push into digital assets. Specifically, Truth Social-affiliated funds filed for two new crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs) with the U.S. Securities...

Coinbase Global Inc. shares surged on Friday, rising nearly 17% to $164.32 and at one point gaining almost 20% on more than double the average trading volume. According to a...

A federal court in Florida has entered a $2.8 million defamation judgment in favor of investor and television personality Kevin O’Leary against crypto influencer Ben Armstrong, concluding a case tied...

Fresh allegations have placed Binance back under regulatory scrutiny, even as the exchange continues operating under a U.S. government monitorship. Reports claim that internal investigators identified transactions linked to Iranian...

A senior executive at Binance France became the target of a coordinated home invasion attempt on February 12, as three masked suspects forced their way into a residential building in...

SBI Holdings has moved to expand its digital asset footprint in Asia through plans to acquire Coinhako, a major cryptocurrency platform based in Singapore. The Japanese financial group announced plans...

South Korean financial powerhouse Mirae Asset Financial Group is acquiring a controlling stake in Korbit, one of the country’s five major cryptocurrency exchanges. The group’s consulting arm disclosed that it...

South Korean authorities have reported that 22 Bitcoins (worth about $1.5 million), seized in a 2021 criminal case and kept in a secure offline wallet, have disappeared. The Bitcoin was...

Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies has reintroduced a major bill that would allow the government to establish a Strategic Sovereign Bitcoin Reserve. If passed, it would allow the country to buy...

The crypto market has extended its losses led by Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). The total crypto market cap dropped 1.19% in the past 24 hours to hover about $2.27...

Bitcoin hovered around the $66,000 level on Friday, positioning the world’s largest cryptocurrency for a potential fourth consecutive weekly loss as broader financial markets remained under pressure. The total cryptocurrency...

XRP is trading near $1.35, down about 2.4% in the past 24 hours, as weakening on-chain profitability, macroeconomic uncertainty, and bearish investor sentiment continue to weigh on the market. Despite...

A federal court has sentenced Praetorian Group International (PGI) founder and Chief Executive Officer Ramil Ventura Palafox to 20 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to wire fraud and...

Israeli prosecutors have filed charges against an Israel Defense Forces reservist and a civilian accused of using classified military information to place wagers on the prediction market platform Polymarket. The...

According to reports, the Dutch House of Representatives has approved a 36% tax on unrealized capital gains, permitting only forward loss offsets. The latest development has shifted the responsibility of...

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio has warned the public to be wary of romance scams as Valentine’s Day approaches. According to a press release, the...

According to reports from Arkham Intelligence, the blockchain analytics platform that tracks cryptocurrency transfers, the government of Bhutan has sold another batch of its Bitcoin holdings. The report stated that...

A report on Russia’s renewed use of the U.S. dollar rattled markets this week. Investors pulled about $120 billion from risk assets as equities and crypto declined.  A report from...

In a US Senate Banking Committee hearing, SEC Chairman Paul Atkins said permanent crypto policy requires legislation, even though the agency can issue rules on its own. He said the...

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has finalized the first members of its Innovation Advisory Committee (IAC), a new body created to guide financial market regulation, including crypto oversight....

The cryptocurrency market is showing clear signs of a downturn after Bitcoin fell sharply from last year’s record highs, wiping out billions in market value and pushing the broader digital-asset...

Bitcoin hovered near the lower end of this week’s trading range on Thursday after fresh selling pressure and a downgraded outlook from Standard Chartered weighed on market sentiment. The world’s...