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Ripple Floats XRP Staking to Bring Token Deeper Into DeFi
Ripple is exploring adding native staking to the XRP Ledger (XRPL) to boost its DeFi utility. This would require major protocol changes to c...
Samourai Wallet Co-Founder Gets 4 Years in Prison for $237 Million Bitcoin Laundering Scheme
Samourai Wallet co-founder William Hill was sentenced to four years for running an unlicensed business that laundered $237M in criminal proc...
Block Shares Jump as Company Unveils Strong 2028 Growth and Profit Targets
Block’s stock climbed over 7% on Wednesday after management unveiled a multi-year plan forecasting higher revenue and profitability throug...
Matt Hougan on Why Bitcoin Has Value: ‘How Is It Worth $2 Trillion?’
Bitcoin’s value lies in its utility as a digital wealth-storage service, not short-term price swings or physical form. ...
Australia, U.S., and U.K. Sanction Russian Cybercrime Infrastructure and Crypto Laundering Network
In an allied show of cooperation against cybercrime, the governments of the U.S., Australia and UK have sanctioned a network of Russian-base...
Screenshots Obtained by Tech Sleuth Show Coinbase Planning Prediction Market
Screenshots posted to X/Twitter by hacker Jane Manchun Wong show that Coinbase is developing a prediction market platform, potentially in pa...
Bitcoin Slides to April Lows as Fed Minutes Signal Uncertainty on Rate Cuts
Bitcoin fell to a seven-month low of $88,600 due to investor uncertainty surrounding the Federal Reserve's split on future interest rate cut...
Hyperliquid Unveils HIP-3, Slashing Fees to Spark a Wave of New On-Chain Markets
Hyperliquid (HYPE) has rolled out HIP-3 Growth Mode, a new feature that allows its users to deploy perpetual futures markets with sharply re...
Bitfury Quits Bitcoin Mining to Launch $1B Ethical Tech Investment Firm
Bitcoin pioneer Bitfury is pivoting from mining to investing, planning to deploy US$1B into AI and crypto startups and decentralised systems...
US Regulators Greenlight Banks to Hold Crypto for Paying Network Fees
Under new OCC guidance, national banks may maintain native crypto on balance sheets for both payments and internal platform testing. ...
Standard Chartered Analyst Says Bitcoin Sell-Off Has Bottomed, Eyes Year-End Rally
Bitcoin holds US$90k support amid market fear, yet analysts spot rebound signs. Institutional rotation rather than capitulation suggests con...
Arthur Hayes Warns Bitcoin Could Dip to $80K Before Liquidity Fuels a Run to $250K
BitMEX founder, Arthur Hayes, has warned that Bitcoin could drop as low as US$80k — driven down by low US dollar liquidity — before surg...