Trump-linked World Liberty Financial wins OCC bank approval as $112 million DeFi position sits near liquidation
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) gave World Liberty Financial, a DeFi venture associated with…
A staked Ethereum ETF processed $48M in redemptions while keeping 86% of ETH locked, 21Shares filing shows
The 21Shares Ethereum ETF, which trades as TETH, reported $48.4 million in TETH redemptions during the first half…
Russia’s censorship crackdown and WhatsApp ban expose the decentralization gap the crypto industry keeps missing
Russia’s recent messaging crackdown is the cleanest real-world stress test of decentralization in years, and it produced an…
Strategy can survive Bitcoin crashing to $8,000 – but can it escape the slow bleed of dilution?
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) has become the public market’s most widely traded Bitcoin proxy, using equity, convertible notes, and…
What if Bitcoin blocks signaled the New Year? Creating Universal Bitcoin Time but trapping holders in a tax nightmare
Bitcoin miners produced block 929,699 on Dec. 27. What if that was the signal for a New Year’s…
Coinbase claims arrest in the $355 million insider extortion scheme that targeted nearly 70,000 customers
Coinbase said a former customer support agent was arrested in India as investigators probe a breach tied to…
Open letter to Bitcoin Core: ‘Bitcoin is and must remain censorship resistant’
“Dear Bitcoin Core, Bitcoin is and must remain censorship resistant.” That’s the promise, the battle, and the line…
Tokenized assets are already nearing $300 billion led by stablecoins
According to recent data by Token Terminal, tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) are already nearing $300 billion, a milestone…
Mantra says CEO has begun the process of burning his 150M OM tokens
Mantra founder and CEO John Patrick Mullin has started unstaking 150 million of his Mantra (OM) tokens in…
UK lawmaker’s X account hacked to boost scam ‘House of Commons Coin’
The X account of UK member of Parliament and Leader of the House of Commons, Lucy Powell, was…