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Do Kwon, the architect of the $40 billion Terra-Luna collapse that precipitated the 2022 crypto winter, has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. The sentence, handed down on...

Big Tech is taking another cautious but notable step into crypto. YouTube has introduced an option allowing U.S. creators to receive their earnings in PayPal’s U.S. dollar–backed stablecoin, PYUSD. May...

Netflix announced a new comedy feature titled “One Attempt Remaining,” starring Jennifer Garner. The film centers on a divorced couple who discover that the cryptocurrency they won on a cruise...

Coinbase Global Inc. moves to capture the booming “event economy,” preparing to introduce prediction markets and tokenized equity trading. This expansion aggressively targets market share as trading platforms battle to...

Belarus restricted access to several major global crypto exchanges this week, tightening control over how residents reach offshore trading rails. Reports said the disruption affected Bybit, OKX, Bitget, BingX, and...

Abu Dhabi’s early decision to regulate digital assets is now influencing global policy debates, Binance Co-CEO Richard Teng said during a fireside chat at Abu Dhabi Finance Week (ADFW). The...

Hex Trust, a regulated institutional custodian, said that it will issue and manage wrapped XRP (wXRP), a 1:1-backed form of XRP built for DeFi and cross‑chain use. wXRP will allow...

JPMorgan expanded its digital asset strategy with a new commercial paper issuance executed directly on the Solana blockchain. The bank structured the short term instrument for Galaxy Digital Holdings and...

The race to tokenize global finance found a new engine in Abu Dhabi today. During the Solana Breakpoint conference, institutional capital allocator Keel unveiled a massive $500 million liquidity initiative...

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the core settlement and custody infrastructure for U.S. financial markets, has received a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission No-Action Letter allowing it to...

Coinbase has fundamentally altered its listing mechanics for all tokens on the Solana network, announcing a new “on-chain trading” system that removes the exchange’s traditional gatekeeper role.  Revealed at the...

Institutional access to XRP is accelerating rapidly as CBOE BZX Exchange moves to list the 21Shares XRP ETF, cementing the asset’s status as the next major crypto ETF success story...

Tokenized gold and silver have outperformed Bitcoin this year as cryptocurrency markets swung from euphoria around U.S. presidential elections to the deepest fear levels since 2022. Bitcoin dropped from an...

Silver surged to a record high of $63 per ounce, the asset’s strongest performance in history. At the same time, the crypto market fell 3% in a single day, with...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has assembled a CEO Innovation Council to give the regulator direct access to executives running fast-growing digital-asset and tokenization platforms. The group’s formation within two...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has challenged one of Bitcoin’s biggest criticisms, offering a new way to look at the cryptocurrency’s energy use. Speaking during a panel on AI and global...

Andreessen Horowitz, better known as a16z, is expanding its crypto investment footprint in Asia through a new base in Seoul, South Korea. The venture capital firm said the Seoul office...

Elon Musk has downplayed the impact of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the Trump administration program he helped lead in early 2025. He said the initiative was only “somewhat...

Tether, the issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin, is executing a hard pivot into the data sovereignty sector. The company announced the launch of QVAC Health on Wednesday, a privacy-centric...

KuCoin has officially announced the listing of the blockchain project Cysic (CYS) on its Spot trading platform, paired with a structured HODLer Airdrop campaign for eligible KCS users. The addition...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission unveiled new exemptions for digital asset intermediaries, aiming to support innovation while the country rewrites its crypto rulebook. The relief focuses on eligible stablecoins...

Gemini announced that RLUSD is now compatible with the XRP Ledger on its platform. The integration enables near-instant settlement and lower fees for users transferring stablecoins across networks via the...

The U.S. Federal Reserve cut its key policy rate by 25 basis points on Wednesday, marking the third reduction this year. Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the Federal Open Market...

Strategy Inc. has submitted a formal response to the MSCI Equity Index Committee after the index provider proposed removing firms that hold digital assets worth 50% or more of their...

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has released preliminary findings from its review of debanking practices at the largest national banks, outlining how several institutions applied restrictions...