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South Korean police book Bithumb CEO as bribery suspect in lawmaker hiring probe: report
Police are investigating whether Bithumb CEO Lee hired lawmaker Kim's son as a favor and whether Kim later used his p…
Singapore bank DBS to offer tokenized gold to retail customers
Each token is backed by one gram of physical gold held by DBS in a dedicated vault in Singapore.
Figure to acquire Kiavi for $717 million to expand RWA tokenization network
Figure said moving Kiavi assets onchain could reduce costs while maintaining a capital-light, high-margin business mo…
Cardano’s Oldest Holders Are Moving Again — Here’s What The Data Shows
About 16 million ADA left exchanges for self-custody wallets in a single 24-hour window, according to Coinglass spot …
Crypto Hackers Drain Over $36M From Protocols Using Unverified Contracts
A crypto hacker who drained $26 million from Ethereum-based protocol Truebit in January had likely practiced the tech…
Bitcoin Obituaries Keep Coming—CZ Isn’t Buying It
Bitcoin fell to its lowest weekly close since the second half of 2024 last week, capping a stretch that has now strip…
UK mutual funds may soon be allowed to hold crypto ETNs, but only with a 10% leash
The proposal opens a route into UCITS and most NURS while keeping direct crypto holdings outside authorized funds. Th…
Raydium DEX’s AMM Program Exploited For $1.34 Million — Here’s What Went Wrong
Raydium (RAY), a decentralized exchange on the Solana (SOL) blockchain, said Wednesday that it had suffered a $1.34 m…
Bitcoin takes back seat to stablecoins and tokenization among financial advisors: Bitwise CIO
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan said financial advisors are now showing more interest in stablecoins and tokenization than bi…
Solana infrastructure firm Helius acquires Light Protocol to expand onchain privacy
The acquisition comes amid a moment of consolidation in the crypto industry and during a resurgent interest in onchai…
Privacy returns to focus as Ethereum developers explore new token standards
In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we're looking at where privacy is headed in the Ethereum ecosystem.
Mastercard unveils Agent Pay for Machines to support autonomous AI transactions, including stablecoins
Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines infrastructure will support high-volume, low-value payments by autonomous AI agents.
MegaETH-based MNX raises $6.4 million pre-seed at $40 million valuation to build AI-focused futures exchange
MNX, a decentralized futures exchange focused on the AI economy, has raised $6.4 million in a pre-seed funding round.
Benchmark says Securitize ‘poised to be a positive outlier,’ sets $16 target as NYSE listing nears
Benchmark reiterates Buy on Securitize with $16 target as the company's planned NYSE listing moves into final stages.
Ripple launches toolkit for agentic payments on XRPL
A growing number of companies, including Ripple, want to create payment rails which would AI agents to execute transa…
Pyth launches 24/7 proprietary indices for US equities, oil and metals
Pyth is aggregating data from onchain and offchain sources to provide continuous price discovery for major equities a…
World Series of Poker adds Solana payments for tournament buy-ins
The move marks an integration of blockchain-based payments into a major live sporting and gaming event.
A 'Bitcoin DeFi' project just shut down with a brutal post-mortem: Users just didn't care
"It did not work," Botanix said. "At lest not in this market and not in this timeline."
The Bitcoin Rally Has A Problem: Demand Is Drying Up
Bitcoin may need to climb back above $65,000 before any meaningful recovery can take hold — but getting there looks…
Crypto’s killer app may be selling stocks after its own tokens failed retail
A Delphi Consulting analysis of 652 CEX listings from January 2025 onward found that a user buying every new token ac…
XRP Being Suppressed? Researcher Reveals Why The Token Isn’t Soaring
A 2021 Citibank document that used the phrase “Regulated Internet of Value” sits at the center of a new XRP debat…
Bitcoin Traders Watching Closely As Trump Hints At Imminent Iran Deal
Bitcoin is already being eyed for a move toward $65,000 if a US-Iran deal is sealed, with US President Donald Trump s…
Securitize CEO says tokenized stocks could unlock a $5 trillion crypto market
At a panel at ETHConf, Carlos Domingo argued that bringing stocks and exchange-traded funds onchain could unlock a ma…
Arthur Hayes Warns AI Stock Crash Could Hit Crypto Before BTC Rebounds
Arthur Hayes has turned sharply defensive on risk assets, warning that an AI stock-market unwind could spill into cry…
Cardano Isn’t Fading Away, DEX Aggregator Says As DeFi Metrics Rise
Cardano’s total value locked dropped close to 30% in June, sliding from $129 million to $92 million — a fall that…
Backpack US appoints former SEC Acting Chairman Piwowar to board amid push for crypto perps
Michael S. Piwowar was appointed by President Barack Obama and served as an SEC commissioner from 2013 to 2018.
GSR receives FINRA approval to complete broker-dealer acquisition
GSR first announced it would acquire the Portland-based, SEC-registered broker-dealer Equilibrium Capital Services in…
Live updates: bitcoin drifts back to $62,500, putting damper on hope for two straight up days
Crypto prices rose on Monday following last week's crash, but the bears still appear to be in control.
Wall Street will run entirely on the blockchain by 2030, says Brickken CEO
Edwin Mata argues that EU regulations are choking local startups, leaving the U.S. and automated AI tools to run the …
Humanity's $36 million exploit tied to compromised laptop hosting a 'multisig' wallet
The compromised laptop held enough multisig keys to take over the project's bridges on two chains, a basic security f…