The Thailand case shows how cross-chain token swaps can complicate tracing across services, assets and borders.
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A lawsuit seeking legal ownership of long-dormant Bitcoin addresses, including wallets tied by researchers to Bitcoin’s earliest mining era, has narrowed after the plaintiffs dropped 44 defendants that moved funds after the case was filed. The July 7 voluntary discontinuance removes only a small slice of the 39,069 wallets targeted by the case. But the […]
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In 2017, a handful of developers with a whitepaper and a GitHub repository could launch a token or a crypto startup in a matter of days. Capital requirements were low, licensing was either non-existent or seen as an afterthought, and a compelling idea was usually enough to draw thousands of retail buyers into an ICO […]
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With Wall Street and ETF rails shut, BTC keeps trading, proving that always-on access can also mean thinner liquidity.
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Americans are on pace to lose more money on legal gambling this year than at any point in the country's history. A new analysis by economics writer Joseph Politano projects that the total will exceed a quarter trillion dollars in 2026. Losses have climbed 67% since the start of COVID-19 and another 8% over the past […]
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France’s response shows why visible crypto wealth now demands offline threat planning, data controls, and faster law-enforcement coordination.
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Large channels still look big by audience size, but recent view velocity shows a thinner and more selective market.
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US agencies are formalizing identity checks at the issuer gate while leaving the transfer layer politically exposed.
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Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) shares rose Monday after the Bitcoin holder moved to reassure investors that it can meet its preferred stock obligations, authorizing up to $2 billion in buybacks and opening the door to Bitcoin sales that could fund dividends, interest payments, and repurchases. The company, led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, announced a new […]
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The CLARITY Act, the crypto industry’s most important bill in Congress, is running out of time. The bill, which would establish federal rules for the crypto industry, is increasingly at risk of slipping deeper into the 2026 election year amid renewed partisan fights and a new demand from President Donald Trump that has made an […]
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OpenAI introduced GPT-5.6 on June 26 as a limited-preview family of frontier models with three tiers: Sol as the flagship, Terra as the balanced mid-range option, and Luna as the fast, low-cost tier. OpenAI says Sol performs competitively with Anthropic's Mythos Preview on ExploitBench using roughly 33% of the output tokens, at $5 per million […]
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DeFiLlama shows real activity, but durability depends on redemption, custody, buybacks and CARDS incentives.
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The Ethereum Foundation has cut roughly 20% of its workforce and slashed its budget by roughly 40% as part of a broad reorganization, even as the blockchain it helps steward has seen its highest-ever levels of user activity and attracts deeper participation from major financial institutions. On June 23, the nonprofit revealed that it dismissed […]
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Elizabeth Warren has spent much of the past decade warning Americans about the risks posed by privately issued and decentralized digital assets. Over the years, the Massachusetts Democrat has built a reputation as one of crypto industry’s most recognizable critics by persistently linking the emerging industry to money laundering, speculative excess, consumer losses, and sanctions […]
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On June 22, five former senior Ethereum Foundation researchers announced Ethlabs, an independent nonprofit R&D lab with a mission to make Ethereum the settlement layer of the global economy. The co-founders, Ansgar Dietrichs, Barnabé Monnot, Caspar Schwarz-Schilling, Josh Rudolf, and Julian Ma, framed the launch around Ethereum, the protocol, and ETH, the asset. Their announcement […]
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Ethereum core contributors are debating a structural overhaul that could redirect Ethereum staking rewards toward ecosystem development. The protocol-level proposal seeks to solve a persistent coordination failure of funding public goods within the broader Ethereum ecosystem. Open-source security tools, client upgrades, and network maintenance benefit all users, but financial support often falls short because participants […]
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The Swedish krona token is compliant and live, but institutional usage will decide whether the rail matters.
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Spain controlled the ball for nearly 75% of the match and took 27 shots at Cape Verde's goal on June 14, a stat line that usually ends in a win. Cape Verde's 40-year-old goalkeeper, Vozinha, walked away with player-of-the-match honors after a 0-0 draw that cost Polymarket bettors millions and made one obscure wallet roughly […]
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On June 10, administration officials hosted law enforcement groups at the White House to resolve the provision most likely to block the CLARITY Act from reaching the Senate floor for a vote. As Eleanor Terrett reported, the meeting drew around 20 attendees over nearly 90 minutes, with developer protections drawn from the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty […]
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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.
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South Korean police opened the country's first illegal gambling probe into domestic Polymarket users on Jun. 5, targeting residents who placed bets on the Jun. 3 local election outcomes. The Gangwon Provincial Police Agency is leading the investigation at the request of the National Police Agency, tracing cryptocurrency transaction records to identify users nationwide. Those […]
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Charles Hoskinson raised the possibility of splitting Cardano after the collapse of one of its best-known ecosystem tools exposed a deeper fight over money, governance, and who has the power to keep builders alive on the network. This week, the Cardano founder floated what he called a “nuclear option,” saying a new Cardano could be […]
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A Casascius coin tied to 25 BTC moved this week, converting a 2011 physical Bitcoin artifact into spendable BTC during a broader market selloff. Galaxy Research identified the item as an S1-COIN-25 Casascius physical Bitcoin, a large-denomination piece from the era when Bitcoin could still be handed across a table as a loaded coin. The […]
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Cardano's 2026 Summit in Singapore is off after the network's treasury governance process failed to approve funding for it. The official event page now says the Summit will not take place on Oct. 5-6 as previously announced. The cause is governance: Cardano Foundation said treasury-funded initiatives are subject to community vote, and the community decided not to proceed with […]
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A New York lawsuit is seeking to treat some of Bitcoin’s oldest dormant wallets, including addresses tied to the cryptocurrency’s creator, as lost property valued at less than $10 each. The amended complaint asks a state court to grant legal ownership of 39,069 Bitcoin addresses to a pseudonymous plaintiff identified as Noah Doe and two […]
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A warning from one of decentralized finance’s (DeFi) early security figures has turned a difficult stretch of hacks into a broader test of how the industry can defend itself against artificial intelligence (AI). On May 27, Manuel Aráoz, co-founder and former chief technology officer of OpenZeppelin, advised investors to exit DeFi positions, including exposure to […]
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Socket's May 24 disclosure of TrapDoor found more than 34 malicious packages and over 384 related versions spread across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io, each targeting the developers who build and maintain protocols, and the credentials that govern access to the systems around them. What TrapDoor built is a route from a single developer's compromised machine […]
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Charles Hoskinson, Cardano's founder, is turning his public focus back to the blockchain network, and Midnight, one of his largest ventures outside crypto, prepares to close. The shift comes at a difficult moment for the Cardano founder. His Wyoming health care project is winding down after years of investment, while the blockchain he helped build […]
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Tether and the Government of Georgia plan to launch a stablecoin, pushing a national currency directly onto private stablecoin rails before most governments have settled on how that model should work. The Tether Georgia stablecoin plan centers on GEL₮, a stablecoin representing the Georgian lari. The May 25 announcement describes GEL₮ as the official stablecoin […]
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With at least nine senior Ethereum Foundation (EF) members having left in 2026 and years of community frustration over EF-linked ETH sales, Vitalik Buterin posted his perspective on the Foundation's direction. For Buterin, the EF should become smaller, more opinionated, and less central to Ethereum's future. He said this reflects his view alone and that […]
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