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The Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025 has now received Royal Assent, giving cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and NFTs explicit recognition as property in UK law. Until now, courts treated digital assets as property on a case-by-case…
Anthropic’s latest frontier red-team study is a neat, slightly chilling proof-of-concept: AI exploits blockchain at scale, in simulation, and it is already economically worthwhile. Their researchers wired up autonomous agents to poke at…
The EIL SDK is the developer-facing wrapper around Ethereum’s new Interoperability Layer, giving you a way to script multi-chain operations (transfers, swaps, gas payments) as a single logical flow rather than a pile of per-chain…
A Cryptomixer takedown announced today has removed one of Europe’s longest-running Bitcoin mixers from the ransomware and darknet tool kit. In a joint action led by Swiss and German police, and supported by Europol and Eurojust under…
On 30 November 2025, Tether chief Paolo Ardoino issued a fresh X thread attacking S&P’s “weak” USDT rating. Citing the latest attestation (about $215 billion of assets against $184.5 billion of liabilities and sizeable equity and…
On Sunday, the Yearn Finance protocol’s legacy yETH product was exploited, allowing an attacker to mint effectively unlimited yETH and drain almost 9 million dollars’ worth of ETH and liquid staking tokens from Balancer and Curve pools…
The Cocoon Confidential Compute Open Network is Pavel Durov’s attempt to pull AI inference away from hyperscale clouds and into a decentralised, privacy-preserving marketplace. Announced at Blockchain Life 2025 in Dubai and built on The…
From 1 January 2026, the UK will plug its crypto industry into CARF, the OECD’s Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework. Reporting cryptoasset service providers (exchanges, brokers and certain wallet platforms) will have to identify their…
On 26 November 2025, S&P cut USDT from “4 (constrained)” to “5 (weak)” on its stablecoin stability scale, citing a growing tilt towards risk assets in the backing and persistent disclosure gaps around who actually holds and manages that…
The upbit hack is only a few days old, but Upbit already has a preferred explanation: a cryptographic bug in its own Solana wallet stack that may have allowed attackers to infer private keys from biased signing data. Whether that story…
The tornado cash sanctions story has flipped from headline enforcement win to legal setback for the US Treasury. In 2022, OFAC treated Tornado Cash like a sanctioned entity and blacklisted its smart contracts; by April 2025, a federal…
If you wanted a neat snapshot of where crypto sits in late 2025, the latest wave of Grayscale ETFs will do the job. You now have a Dogecoin ETF on NYSE Arca, a Chainlink trust angling for its own conversion, and an XRP product riding…
Monad’s long-trailed mainnet went live on Monday, but the monad airdrop that came with it landed hard. Instead of a clean “community-first” victory lap, $MON opened on major exchanges, slipped below its ICO price within hours, and left…
The proposed MSCI index exclusion puts bitcoin-heavy treasuries at the centre of what was meant to be a routine index review. The firm is considering barring companies from its Global Investable Market Indexes (GIMI) if digital assets…
The Bitmain investigation, codenamed Operation Red Sunset, pulls Bitcoin mining hardware into the national security frame. Federal agencies are now treating Chinese-made ASIC rigs as potential vectors for espionage and grid disruption…
The Kalshi raise (one billion dollars at an eleven-billion valuation) turns a once-niche prediction venue into a flagship “information markets” play. In seven weeks, the platform has more than doubled its paper worth, moving from…
On 21 November, a malformed delegation transaction turned an obscure library bug into the most visible cardano disruption the network has seen. For roughly half a day, Cardano ran two parallel histories, exchanges paused flows, and ADA…
Telegram and Khabib Nurmagomedov are testing what happens when fight culture, fandom and on-chain collectibles meet. Khabib’s papakha auction is a 29,000-supply digital drop, live inside Telegram from 22 November, that turns the…
Ethereum has spent five years telling users to “go to Layer 2”. The Ethereum Interop Layer (EIL) is the moment it admits that sending people to a maze of rollups without a map was never going to scale. Announced by the Ethereum…
At FIA EXPO, Acting CFTC Chairman Caroline Pham used her keynote to talk about digital assets in the dry language of market structure, not moral hazard. She drew a direct line: electronification rewired markets in the 1970s;…
Kraken has finally done what it has hinted at for years: raised real Wall Street money to match its market ambitions. On Tuesday, the exchange closed an $800 million dual-tranche round at a $20 billion valuation, one of the largest…
In Interpretive Letter 1186, the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) confirms that national banks can hold crypto on their own balance sheets purely to pay blockchain transaction costs. If a bank wants to move customer…
Jupiter Exchange announced that Metis Router v7 is now a standalone project, formally decoupled from the Jupiter brand. This separation comes amid Solana’s intensifying aggregator wars, with rivals using Metis outputs to compare…
If Part 1 of Coin Laundry was about the exchanges, Part 2 is about the bit they’d rather not talk about: the places where crypto turns back into envelopes of cash, diamonds, gold bars and yacht rentals, often without anyone asking who…
The Aave app is their pitch to people who don’t really care about liquidity mining or governance, they just want better savings. Announced on Monday, it’s an iOS high-yield savings app that plugs into the Aave protocol, offering…
An ambitious new cross-border investigation from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The New York Times and 36 partner outlets (dubbed Coin Laundry) alleges that at least $28 billion in suspect crypto has coursed…
CoinMarketCap has just announced the $CMC20. In partnership with Reserve Protocol and Lista DAO, the CMC20 is a fully tradable index token on BNB Chain that tracks the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market cap (minus stablecoins, wrappers…
At Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress 2 in Buenos Aires, Vitalik Buterin used his keynote to deliver this point: Ethereum has done the hard work on privacy and security – and then handed it to users through terrible wallets. Kohaku is the…
When Canary Capital’s XRP ETF (XRPC) rang the opening bell on Nasdaq on Thursday, it didn’t so much launch as arrive with a calling card. Day-one trading hit $58 million, the highest debut of any ETF in 2025 across more than 900…
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its latest North Korea crypto seizure: more than $15 million in Tether (USDT) linked to state-backed hackers and a sprawling fake-IT-worker network that burrowed into 100+…
Aave Labs has secured MiCA authorisation from the Central Bank of Ireland for its subsidiary Push Virtual Assets Ireland Limited, clearing it to offer regulated euro↔stablecoin on/off-ramps across the EEA. The service (Push) will…
A month after the SEC streamlined spot-crypto ETF listings, the U.S. market is seeing a genuine altcoin rush. VanEck filed Form 8-A for a Solana spot ETF, Fidelity advanced its own SOL fund with an updated S-1/A, Canary’s XRP ETF (XRPC)…
Bybit’s in-house research team, Lazarus Security Lab, has published a report “Blockchain Freezing Exposed” claiming that 16 major blockchains already include code or controls that can freeze or restrict user funds, with a further 19…
Cash App and Solana are teaming up on stablecoin payments: Block’s Cash App will add USDC transfers on Solana rails for eligible users in early 2026, giving its 57 million monthly users instant, low-fee, on-chain dollars without wallet…
The U.S. Department of Justice has stood up a new Scam Center Strike Force to dismantle transnational “pig-butchering” operations that use crypto investment schemes to fleece Americans. Led by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District…
On 13 November, Grayscale Investments publicly filed an S-1 with the U.S. SEC to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker GRAY, a decisive step toward a grayscale IPO after a confidential submission in July. The filing caps…
On Thursday, Hyperliquid (one of DeFi’s busiest perp venues on its own Layer-1) endured what analysts dubbed “peak degen warfare.” A single actor engineered a violent collapse in the POPCAT perpetual market, deliberately torching…
Newly disclosed emails from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein show that the late financier helped underwrite MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) in 2015, money that, at least in part, supported work on Bitcoin Core, the reference…
Uniswap Labs has unveiled Continuous Clearing Auctions (CCA), a permissionless, on-chain mechanism for price discovery and liquidity bootstrapping on Uniswap v4. The protocol runs rolling auctions that clear at a uniform market price,…
The United Arab Emirates has executed its first government-to-government payment using the Digital Dirham, marking the CBDC’s debut in live public-sector operations on 11 November. The Ministry of Finance and Dubai’s Department of…
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