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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…
MetaMask just gave AI agents a DeFi wallet with a leash
Agent Wallet lets software trade across DeFi, but every permission rule becomes part of the security boundary. The po…
Lamborghini Bitcoin carjacking puts crypto’s wrench-attack crisis in a US courtroom
A Missouri man's guilty plea links a Danbury kidnapping to the same human-targeting pattern already visible in France…
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…
A $239B claim on dormant Bitcoin wallets faces a new obstacle after old address moves
A June 5 court stay and a June 2 spend turned the Noah Doe case into a test of legal title versus private-key control…
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.
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…
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…
A 2011 physical Bitcoin loaded with 25 BTC was just unlocked during the $62k selloff
A Casascius coin tied to 25 BTC moved this week, converting a 2011 physical Bitcoin artifact into spendable BTC durin…
Travala debuts agentic AI travel protocol with gasless USDC payments on Base
Travala launched an agentic AI travel protocol on Base supporting gasless USDC hotel bookings and AI-assisted payment…
Cosmos Labs acquires block explorer Mintscan, forms Korea subsidiary to expand ecosystem
Cosmos Labs has acquired Cosmos block explorer Mintscan and formed a new Korea-based subsidiary, Cosmos Labs Korea.
Veda brings the vault stack behind Kraken DeFi Earn to Privy’s 2,000-plus developer teams
The same vault stack powering Kraken DeFi Earn and EtherFi's Liquid will be available via a self-serve API for develo…
Failed Ethereum ICO from 2016 just unlocked 1,003 ETH by exploiting itself
A whitehat and HongCoin's original multisig used a preserved overflow bug to reopen refunds trapped since 2016. The p…
Hyperliquid Enters Top 10 Crypto With New ATH, But How High Will It Be If It Overtakes Ethereum?
Hyperliquid (HYPE) recently broke into the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, sitting alongside top pl…
Aztec Labs acquires ZKPassport, pledges to keep privacy protocol and iOS mobile app open-source
The Obsidion team, including co-founders Michael Elliot and Theo Madzou, will join Aztec Labs to continue developing …
Tiny x402 payments expose the approval gap holding AI agents back
Agentic payment protocol x402 volume collapsed roughly 77% from its November 2025 peak of $5.15 million to $1.19 mill…
Solana DEX Orca launches new marketplace for tokenized real-world assets
The launch comes as crypto companies increasingly focus on tokenizing traditional financial assets, a market many in …
Ripple, North Island Ventures back $6 million round for cross-chain platform Squid
Squid is preparing to launch a new consumer product aimed at making it easier to access and manage crypto assets, Fig…
CLEAR token tanks 48% as Everclear winds down protocol, foundation and labs unit
Everclear achieved $500 million in monthly volume, but "never developed the commercial depth," the team said on Thurs…
84% of BTC hashrate secured Bitcoin DeFi in Q1, but miners saw little fee upside
The 84.01% figure strengthens the BTCFi security case, but miner revenue and usage remain unresolved. The post 84% of…
MoonPay announces fourth acquisition of the year with Decent, as it launches MoonPay Trade
This Decent deal comes on a wave of acquisitions by MoonPay, including DFlow and Sodot, which all support MoonPay Trade.
Cosmos co-founder’s new multilateral clearing startup Cycles raises $6.4 million
The round, led by Blockchange Ventures, with support from Coinbase Ventures, among others, brings Cycle's total fundi…
Kik founder’s latest app Flipcash first to tap Coinbase’s stablecoin-as-a-service platform
Coinbase rolled out its Custom Stablecoin platform in late 2025 to enable companies to launch branded stablecoins.
Deloitte absorbs Blocknative team as crypto infra firm winds down APIs and Gas Network
The Blocknative website now returns a post noting that the firm is “now in the process of ceasing operations."
Zerohash secures first EMI license under MiCA for stablecoin and brokerage services in Europe
Zerohash Europe is the first firm licensed under Europe’s flagship MiCA crypto regulation to also hold full EMI sta…
It’s a ‘new era’ for crypto users who ‘trade anything and everything’ as Jito goes consumer, CEO Bruder says
Jito founder Lucas Bruder told The Block that there's a new class of users coming onchain who "want to trade anything…
Chainlink CCIP gains over $2.5 billion in TVL from protocols migrating from LayerZero, with Kraken Bitcoin the latest to join
Kraken Bitcoin is at least the fourth product to deprecate its LayerZero cross-chain tech following the Kelp DAO attack.
CoinList expands into tokenized asset distribution with ‘Passage’ as token sales slow
CoinList has launched Passage. The move marks its expansion beyond token sales, which have slowed across the crypto i…
Bitcoin holders can now hide more of their activity, but only by trusting new middlemen
Starknet launched strkBTC on May 12, locking BTC on Bitcoin's base layer to back an ERC-20 token that brings shielded…
Stork promises ‘true’ 24/7 price discovery for stocks and gold tapping Binance and other perps markets
Stork launches the first 24/7 oracle that switches to perpetual futures markets for 'true' price discovery.