Test memecoin purchases were coded as "digital media" rather than crypto, earning credit card points despite card network restrictions.
According to Coinbase’s head of AI product, we’re currently in the “Napster/LimeWire era” of agentic payments.
Crypto’s favorite maxim, “don’t trust, verify” wasn’t followed in the case of Coldcard’s code.
The outlook for crypto legislation is growing increasingly bleak, following Sen. John Thune's move to punt the initial vote to next month.
Early BVNK investor Concentric shares a fascinating inside view on the stablecoin startup’s journey and the eventual Mastercard deal.
Revenue has fallen four quarters running while open interest hit a record high. The gap is a fee-sharing program that hands half the platform's volume to outside builders.
An industry-wide reckoning is weeding out unsustainable startups, leaving behind only the protocols with real cash flow and actual users.
Both retail and institutional traders worry about the funding rate.
Perpetual futures drive much of the price discovery for bitcoin and ether. When traders pointed the same machinery at a private company, they priced the biggest IPO in history more accurately than Wall Street, and then watched the stock walk away from them.
Rather than competing directly with faster chains, some builders argue Ethereum's strength lies in supporting the layer-2 networks where trading is taking place.
"We were a scrappy startup," Delo said of BitMEX back in 2016, when it launched the first perpetual future. "We thought, ‘Just get it out there. If it was any good, the market would show us.’"
Hyperliquid is capitalizing on the volume and depth of its order book by giving firms the option to compose with the platform’s shared liquidity, rather than fragmenting it.
Weeks ago, the U.S. CFTC opened the gates for crypto perps with its first listing approval, but major derivatives player CME is fighting back against what it sees as a diversion from the law.
Regulated perpetual futures are officially landing in the U.S., but while agile trading firms and crypto exchanges race to capture massive retail demand, traditional Wall Street banks are holding back until liquidity, rules, and infrastructure mature.
Around-the-clock crypto markets are forcing Wall Street to reevaluate one of its oldest assumptions: that weekends are for waiting.
BIP-110 sought to limit non-financial data on Bitcoin's blockchain but instead reignited debates over censorship and decentralization.
A recent Supreme Court ruling expanding President Trump's authority to remove leaders of many agencies could have broader implications.
With the July 1 deadline now passed, how will the end of MiCA's final transition phase affect users, companies, and the market?
A sweeping cryptocurrency bill faces a narrowing path to passage as pressure grows on the Senate to take up the legislation next month.
Former FCA policymaker and Hedera Global Policy VP, Isadora Arredondo says there is a gap between the U.K.'s crypto ambitions and how policy is carried out in practice.
Lawmakers are set to debate several cryptocurrency tax bills amid growing questions over how tax rules should apply to digital assets.
Digital asset legislation is years in the making, but the sector's biggest political champion, President Trump, has become a liability.
AI agents and automated payments could reach a scale that crypto monitoring systems built for human-paced markets cannot handle, Elliptic CEO Simone Maini warned.
Stablecoin advocates argue that in the end limiting rewards is a losing battle as companies will find ways to incentivize users.
Joseph Lubin backed ETH treasury firms, confirmed Linea's Linux Foundation move, and highlighted Ethereum's quantum-safe roadmap.
The film follows a four-year investigation led by New York Times bestselling author William D. Cohan and private investigator Tyler Maroney.
Aftermath conditions from Kelp DAO’s exploit has opened a broader debate over DeFi’s security model, after billions left Aave.
Most simplifies the complex process of quantum computing as "it can be 0 and 1 at the same time." That is not an explanation for why it threatens Bitcoin. This is.
Google researchers recently warned that quantum computing may break bitcoin earlier than originally thought.
Crypto companies eager to attract new users have been sponsoring sports teams across various leagues for years.