Digital assets, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and currency news.
Key Highlights: Federal authorities and the FBI report that cryptocurrency scams often begin as romance or confidence schemes that lure victims into fraudulent platforms using fake gains before demanding bogus fees and taxes. Recent legal maneuvers include major forfeiture filings, such as a July push targeting more than $25 million in illicit crypto assets and ...
Key Highlights GMTrade dominated decentralized perpetual trading activity, generating roughly 77% of the tracking table’s weekly turnover despite broader downturns in spot DEX volume and stablecoin capitalization. Trading incentives, referral structures, and conditional treasury buybacks via GT points helped fuel user engagement, though the protocol’s tokens remain distinct from native GMX assets. As of November ...
Key Highlights: The U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) accused MEXC Global of facilitating $16 billion in illicit transactions linked to Iran, Russia, North Korea, and cybercrime networks. Major cryptocurrency exchanges, including Binance and OKX, have tightened controls on deposits associated with MEXC Global and its related corporate affiliates. FinCEN’s regulatory measure, enacted under ...
Key Highlights: Visa’s stablecoin settlement run rate reached an annualized $25 billion as of September 2026, marking a tenfold year-over-year surge across more than 225 active card programs. Monad has joined Visa’s multi-chain settlement initiative, offering high-throughput Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatibility with up to 10,000 transactions per second and 800-millisecond finality. To address enterprise ...
Key Highlights: The Monad Foundation announced that participating Visa issuers and acquirers can now utilize the Monad network for stablecoin settlement. The integration serves back-office interbank settlement rather than changing front-end consumer card payment experiences. Monad plans to introduce a specialized institutional privacy feature in future months to shield transaction details while enabling regulatory and ...
Key Highlights: LNbits issued an urgent warning instructing server operators to immediately shut down their instances following a wave of cyberattacks targeting a critical vulnerability. The vulnerability affects all LNbits software versions prior to release 1.7.0, putting users’ funds at direct risk of unauthorized theft. Developers released an emergency patch and warned operators to rotate ...
Key Highlights The Nvidia board has initiated an independent external probe into Jensen Huang’s past interactions with a former Megaspeed executive, aiming to maintain transparency and limit board liability. Nvidia faces mounting pressure from a new shareholder class action lawsuit filed by Mark Kistenmacher alongside a Congressional summons for a closed-door briefing on November 18. ...
Key Highlights: Blockchain tracking via Btcparser revealed that 873 unique transactions mobilized 33,932.19 BTC from monitored legacy wallets between January and October 2026, peaking in Q3 with 13,111.20 BTC. Satoshi-era coins from 2010 awoke in coordinated sweeps—including a single-day movement of 2,000 BTC across 40 addresses on January 10—though none matched Satoshi Nakamoto’s distinctive Patoshi ...
Key Highlights: Canaan posted a GAAP net income of US$7.96 million for Q3 2026, though the underlying business incurred an operating loss of US$42.9 million alongside a 90.3% year-over-year revenue plunge to US$14.5 million. Out of Canaan’s 1,875.5 Bitcoin treasury, approximately two-thirds are encumbered—with 1,258 Bitcoin pledged as collateral for secured term loans and 100 ...
Key Highlights: Signature aggregation proposals like BIP460 can reduce signature payloads by 45% using half-aggregation and 90% via full aggregation across ten signatures. Transaction fee savings scale with input counts, cutting virtual size by up to 14.2% for standard multi-party transactions and up to 27.3% for massive 100-input wallet consolidations. Implementation requires a new witness ...
Key Highlights: Forward Industries increased its Solana treasury by roughly 226,000 SOL since the end of September through open-market purchases and staking yields. The firm’s total reserves have reached approximately 8.7 million SOL (worth roughly $726.5 million), representing about 1.5% of Solana’s circulating supply. To fuel ongoing growth, an unnamed U.S. national bank granted the ...
Key Highlights House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries is pressing for expanded briefings and urging the House to pass annual defense legislation containing strict export curbs on U.S. semiconductors bound for China. Nvidia’s board of directors initiated an independent investigation around November 8, 2026, probing CEO Jensen Huang’s connections to an individual assessed as a Chinese ...