Digital assets, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and currency news.
Key Highlights: Major cryptocurrency firms, including Coinbase, Ripple, and Circle Internet Group, are integrating into federal banking oversight through Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) national trust bank charters. A series of preliminary and final clearances under President Donald Trump’s administration and the GENIUS Act have extended federal trust status across stablecoin management, ...
Key Highlights: European asset manager Amundi is expanding fund tokenization to Ethereum, establishing native fund units that contrast with derivative-based stock perpetuals and third-party synthetic tokens. Despite using a public blockchain, deployment does not equal unrestricted retail availability or permissionless decentralized finance (DeFi) integration. The structure follows CACEIS’s hybrid tokenization architecture and builds upon Amundi’s ...
Key Highlights Broadridge reported that its Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) platform processed $7.6 trillion in cumulative repurchase agreement volume in October, averaging $345 billion per day. The figures represent transaction throughput and flow metrics in short-term institutional financing rather than newly minted blockchain assets or locked market capitalization. Broadridge is leveraging its DLR network momentum ...
Key Highlights: Strategy chairman Michael Saylor clarified that his famous directive to “never sell” Bitcoin applies exclusively to personal savings rather than public corporate balance sheets. Strategy maintains its position as the largest corporate Bitcoin holder with $63.6 billion in treasury assets, alongside a recent $188 million repurchase of its STRC perpetual preferred stock. The ...
Key Highlights: Blockchain forensics firm Elliptic revealed how North Korean threat actors laundered stolen $NEAR tokens by hopping between wallets and decentralized liquidity pools. Investigators identified a connected chain where five of six token creators were funded by proceeds from prior token sales within a rapid two to 13-minute window. Approximately 11.8 million stolen $NEAR, ...
Key Highlights Prominent Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr published a critical review of Coinkite Coldcard’s random-number generation (RNG) codebase, refuting claims that only advanced artificial intelligence could uncover the security flaws. Coinkite suffered massive seed-generation vulnerabilities rooted in a March 2021 firmware change, resulting in wallet compromises totaling an estimated $140 million or more. Coinkite, along ...
Key Highlights: U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator John Curtis raised bipartisan concerns over insider trading and market manipulation on Kalshi and Polymarket election-related contracts. Platforms face increased federal scrutiny over allegations of candidates wagering on their own campaigns and insiders trading on nonpublic polling data. As Warren prepares to chair the Senate Banking Committee, ...
Key Highlights Cybersecurity firms Previdian and watchTowr have identified active exploitation attempts targeting an OpenSSH authentication vulnerability on Linux systems using the musl code library. The vulnerability allows attackers to bypass authentication on accounts intended for SSH-key-only access if password authentication is enabled, PAM is disabled, and specific password hashing conditions are met. Alpine Linux ...
Key Highlights: Hilbert Group Chief Investment Officer Russell Thompson warned on Nov. 9 that Bitcoin could slide toward $65,000 if critical trend-line support at $71,900 fails. Forced selling triggered by margin calls in strained artificial intelligence and semiconductor portfolios threatens to spill over into liquid digital asset holdings. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs experienced heavy redemptions, ...
Key Highlights: U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded roughly $1.6 billion in net outflows across four out of five trading days, marking the steepest weekly capital withdrawal since early July. Spot market demand failed to absorb liquidation pressure, with the Cumulative Volume Delta (CVD) dropping from positive $6.6 million to negative $91.8 million despite a 13.3% ...
Key Highlights: Robinhood confirmed it will not object to having tokenized versions of its stock traded on the upcoming OKXICE platform. Approximately 90% of the originally proposed firms—56 out of 62—have opposed the venture, leaving a small group of crypto-aligned companies on board. Robinhood joins BitGo and Securitize among companies formally recognized as non-objecting, alongside ...
Key Highlights ICPSwap commands a 100% share of 24-hour decentralized exchange volume on the Internet Computer network, according to CoinGecko. Over 56.8 million $ICS tokens have been permanently removed from circulation via an infinite burn mechanism supported by platform-wide revenues. A recent distribution saw 2,652 $ICP in trading fee dividends allocated to 1,458 eligible user ...