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AI deepfake election ad in Minnesota raises transparency concerns
A deepfake campaign attack ad in the US state of Minnesota has raised questions around the ethics of using AI in poli…
Crypto tax bills a work-in-progress as U.S. House lawmakers pose concerns
The effort to push several tax bills is meant to be bipartisan, but the parties may not be comfortable with all detai…
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.
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.
Tether-Backed Adecoagro to Launch Sugarcane-Powered Bitcoin Mining in Brazil
Adecoagro, a South American agricultural company backed by Tether, plans to launch a Bitcoin mining operation in Bra…
Bitcoin miners’ real prize is power as AI reshapes mining
Bitcoin miners spent years racing to secure cheap electricity, and that electricity has since become more valuable th…
Base launches Azul on mainnet, pushing Coinbase’s Ethereum L2 toward full decentralization
Base has deployed its Azul upgrade on mainnet, with multiproofs and a new client stack advancing decentralization.
ERC-7943 author says institutions can’t play DeFi’s ‘pirate game’
RWA standard ERC-7943 reaches final stage as Ethereum builders rethink how institutional finance move onchain.
Hut 8 AI landlord data center strategy turns Bitcoin collateral into bridge capital
The miner's $16.8 billion lease base shows how power and BTC-backed debt are financing a move beyond mining. The post…
Crypto Long & Short: How the GENIUS Act repriced bitcoin's monetary premium
In this week's Crypto Long & Short, Ravi Tanuku on why the GENIUS Act didn't just regulate stablecoins, it repriced B…
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 …
Coinbase-incubated Base blockchain rolls out MCP gateway to AI interfaces like Claude, ChatGPT
With the integration, users will now be able to use natural language prompts to swap tokens, transfer funds, and inte…
TeraWulf jumps 13% on AI data center expansion in Kentucky
The bitcoin miner turned HPC infrastructure developer unveiled plans for a new 1 gigawatt facility in Kentucky aimed …
Paper losses and scrapped ETFs. What Trump Media’s 2,650 BTC transfer really means
Digital asset treasuries (DATs) and the broader practice of building corporate Bitcoin reserves became hugely popular…
Crypto lobby spending on Republicans far outpaces Democratic support
The crypto lobby has spent tens of millions of dollars more on Republican candidates and elections than on Democratic…
Brazilian gang raid reveals a new crypto-crime model: turning stolen power into digital money
Rio de Janeiro Civil Police launched an operation targeting a Comando Vermelho operational nucleus and found a crypto…
DeFi hacks shake institutional confidence as risks outpace yields
Repeated bridge exploits and shrinking yields are making institutions question whether DeFi’s risks still justify t…
IREN co-founder says AI’s biggest bottleneck is infrastructure, not chips
Dan Roberts outlines IREN’s strategy to build a vertically integrated AI platform spanning power, data centers, GPU…
Canaan earnings show Q1 revenue collapse as record BTC and ETH treasury nears $148M
Falling product revenue and lower guidance leave the ASIC maker's growing crypto balance harder to treat as backgroun…
‘No longer a distant place’: F2Pool Co-founder Chun Wang joins SpaceX’s 2-year mission to Mars
Wang will board Starship on a two-year mission that will explore outside the Earth-Moon system and conduct a fly-by o…
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.
South Carolina Governor signs pro-crypto, anti-CBDC bill into law
The new legislation bans state entities from accepting or requiring payments in CBDC, and offers strong support for c…
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…