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Brazen bitcoin kidnapping and carjacking co-conspirator pleads guilty, faces up to 20 years in prison: DOJ
Six men from Florida carjacked Sushil and Radhika Chetal's Lamborghini Urus, beat the couple and briefly detained them.
Crypto has ‘limited utility’ in solving AI’s trust and payment issues, IC3 researchers say
The academic researchers attempt to debunk idea that giving AI agents access to crypto wallets has the ability to mak…
Tokenized equities reach $5.5 billion market cap, fueled by SpaceX IPO access and exchange expansion
The growth of the fourth-largest RWA category signals a structural demand trend as crypto users want access to equity…
FTX token (FTT) spikes 50% as Sam Bankman-Fried seeks Donald Trump’s pardon
Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the disgraced founder of the bankrupt FTX exchange, is serving a quarter-century in federal …
World Cup prediction markets hit $2B before kickoff as Spain and France go head to head
The FIFA World Cup has become a multibillion-dollar trading event before its June 11 kickoff, with prediction-market …
Coinbase strategist says institutions aren’t panicking about bitcoin, ‘love it even more’ at lower prices
Family offices and sovereign wealth funds continue accumulating bitcoin despite the recent selloff, according to Coin…
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried officially files for a presidential pardon from Trump
Sam Bankman-Fried is pressing ahead with his bid for a presidential pardon, even after President Trump said he has no…
MetaMask debuts Agent Wallet giving AI bots self-custody access to Ethereum
Consensys-backed MetaMask is rolling out a non-custodial wallet for AI agents for general availability this summer.
Coinbase, Ripple among over 200 crypto organizations urging Senate Clarity Act vote
More than 200 organizations, including Coinbase and Ripple, urged Senate leaders to advance the Clarity Act to a floo…
Big banks may have found their answer to the CLARITY Act’s stablecoin challenge
The Clearing House plan gives banks 24/7 tokenized settlement while keeping customer money inside regulated deposit a…
Bybit challenges Wall Street with a massive push into tokenized U.S. stock IPOs
Retail investors can now buy shares at official underwritten prices through the crypto exchange, bypassing Wall Stree…
Bitcoin price rebound wobbles as Israel defies Trump and hits Iran, sending oil back toward $100
Bitcoin's brief weekend rally lost its footing as a sudden resumption of military hostilities between Israel and Iran…
Trump’s family crypto feud spills into customer accounts after wallet freeze
Crypto exchange HTX will permanently remove President Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial’s fiat-backed USD…
Ethereum’s $1,500 test shows how quickly Wall Street’s crypto trade has turned
Ethereum’s slide to its lowest level in more than a year is testing the Wall Street trade that brought the token de…
DeFi’s old hack vectors are fading – But the new risk can hit six chains at once
Decentralized finance has gotten a lot safer over the past six years, and a new review of protocol losses from 2020 t…
Abra’s Bill Barhydt says Wall Street’s next crypto bet is tokenization
As Abra prepares for a Nasdaq debut, CEO Bill Barhydt is betting tokenized yield products and onchain lending will dr…
AI’s power race is shifting leverage from chipmakers like NVIDIA to the grid
AI has hit an electricity problem. Running it takes staggering amounts of power; demand in the US is climbing faster …
Bybit follows Kraken in offering tokenized SpaceX IPO access via xStocks
The product is built on Payward's xStocks framework, the tokenized equities platform Kraken acquired through its purc…
A needed $900B Treasury cash rebuild could quietly drain the liquidity Bitcoin needs
Bitcoin traders have spent the past week bracing for the wrong kind of surprise, watching rate-cut bets evaporate as …
HTX to delist Trump-linked USD1 after saying World Liberty Financial froze exchange-linked addresses
The move follows World Liberty Financial's apparent freeze of HTX-linked on-chain addresses, citing UK sanctions comp…
Hyperliquid’s UK warning reveals the regulatory test behind its Wall Street push
Hyperliquid’s rapid growth has drawn a warning from Britain’s financial regulator, adding a consumer-protection c…
AI’s $800 billion spending boom is becoming Bitcoin’s Fed problem
For the better part of two years, Wall Street has treated AI as the most bullish trade on the board, a growth engine …
America’s largest banks are building a new digital currency network to stop a massive deposit drain
America’s biggest banks are launching tokenized deposits to compete with stablecoins, opening a new front in the ra…
May jobs report explained: Why 172,000 jobs means higher rates, pricier loans, and a Bitcoin drop
The US economy added 172,000 jobs in May, more than double the 80,000 that Wall Street economists had expected, and t…
Crypto exchanges are losing retail traders but are filling the gap with Wall Street-style bets
Crypto exchanges are seeing the weakest retail-driven activity in years, but some of the biggest platforms are findin…
BlackRock-backed tokenization firm Securitize clears key hurdle to go public on NYSE
The tokenization specialist behind BlackRock's BUIDL fund could begin trading on the NYSE as SEC approves merger regi…
Securitize clears SEC registration statement hurdle, sets path to NYSE listing as SECZ
Securitize's SPAC merger is expected to close shortly after a CEPT shareholder vote, if approved, later this month.
Bitcoin traders blamed Saylor’s 32 BTC sale but larger selling pressure built elsewhere
Bitcoin traders have identified Michael Saylor as a new suspect in the latest sell-off, while the numbers tell a diff…
Bitcoin price craters to $60,000 as BTC bulls get jobs report they were hoping to avoid
The May payrolls beat was hawkish enough to pressure crypto, while government hiring and cooler yearly wage growth ke…
Bitcoin crashed and flushed leverage out, but is the bottom here yet?
Bitcoin just tested an intraday low of $61,349, triggered roughly $1.76 billion in liquidations with long positions a…