Digital assets, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and currency news.
Key Highlights: Robinhood Crypto is exploring an initiative with global asset manager T. Rowe Price, which oversees $1.9 trillion in assets under management. The initiative seeks to introduce tokenized exposure to actively managed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on Robinhood Chain. If realized, the partnership would result in a landmark development described as a first Stock Token ...
Key Highlights: Crypto industry leaders, cryptographers, and blockchain developers are engaged in an intense debate over whether rapid advances in artificial intelligence could break public-key cryptography and elliptic curves. Vitalik Buterin advised caution without panic, highlighting lattice-based cryptography as a potential risk area under AI-accelerated mathematics, while Yehuda Lindell characterized elliptic curve break claims as ...
Key Highlights: Core Lightning v26.06.9 resolves a critical message-budget regression in v26.06.8 that inadvertently throttled peers and delayed payment channel traffic on busy nodes. The update mitigates fund-loss risks during channel shutdowns by automatically force-closing channels when an active Hash Time Locked Contract (HTLC) reaches its expiration deadline. Security enhancements patch rune authorization bypasses, mask ...
Key Highlights: Binance will halt eight services—including margin trading, loans, and Launchpool—and delist 22 tokens for Brazilian residents starting October 27. Eligible Brazilian users are transitioning to local regulated entities, utilizing Binance Brasil Corretora de Câmbio e Valores Mobiliários SA for fiat transactions by October 29. New regulatory requirements enforced by the Central Bank of ...
Key Highlights: Tether Gold (XAUT) has overtaken Paxos Gold (PAXG), surging nearly 12-fold year-over-year to 143,973 holders. Tokenized ETFs and equities from platforms like xStocks, Robinhood, and Ondo expanded their holder base from 21,000 in August to 105,000. Ethereum retains roughly 95% ($4.92 billion) of the sector’s total market value, while retail users increasingly disperse ...
Key Highlights Netflix is set to release an eight-episode limited series on November 19 chronicling the rise and collapse of FTX, starring Julia Garner as Caroline Ellison and Anthony Boyle as Sam Bankman-Fried. Executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions, the drama is co-showrun by Graham Moore and Jacqueline Hoyt and depicts ...
Key Highlights: Senate investigators led by Senator Richard Blumenthal are probing Cantor Fitzgerald’s financial ties to Tether, citing potential national security risks linked to sanctioned actors. A Senate Subcommittee review discovered that 84% of 846 sanctioned, Iran-linked cryptocurrency wallets transacted almost entirely using Tether’s $USDT stablecoin. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino defended the firm’s compliance record, ...
Key Highlights Solana is scheduled to reduce its target block production time to 200 milliseconds at epoch 1053, expected around 15:00 UTC on Friday. This marks the final stage of the SIMD-0525 proposal, successfully halving the blockchain’s block time from an original 400 milliseconds. The adjustment increases network throughput targets to five block-production opportunities per ...
Key Highlights: The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is advancing a regulatory framework allowing crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on the Stock Exchange of Thailand. New investor safeguards strictly prohibit margin lending for crypto ETFs, mandate regulated digital asset custody, and require risk acknowledgments. Approved crypto ETFs must be passive investment vehicles maintaining at least 80% ...
Key Highlights Geopolitical tensions drove volatility in energy markets after reports surfaced that the Pentagon directed U.S. Central Command to prepare for resuming major combat operations in Iran. Crypto industry leaders are disputing cryptographic panic around “bunker mode” wallet migrations spurred by theoretical risks tied to AI-accelerated mathematics and elliptic-curve cryptography. Market analysts point to ...
Key Highlights: Strategy has introduced an overview of its tokenized offerings, putting the spotlight on STRCx and MSTRx. The assets are issued by xStocksFi and deployed on the Ethereum blockchain, pointing to ongoing growth in on-chain financial products. While 24-hour trading volumes for STRCx and MSTRx have not yet been reported, the initiative has drawn ...
Key Highlights: NEAR Protocol is currently exhibiting subdued market activity with no significant price movements or recorded trading volume amid mixed momentum in the broader cryptocurrency market. Discussions emerging from Quantum + Privacy Day underscore a growing focus on post-quantum cryptographic defenses to protect decentralized networks against future quantum computing threats. Traders and institutional investors ...