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A keyboardist for the Mexican band Camilo Séptimo and three others were reportedly killed over a Bitcoin cold wallet that suspects believed held millions, though no evidence yet proves the fa
The U.S. Secret Service has frozen $52.8 million in cryptocurrency tied to Xinbi, a sprawling Telegram marketplace that blockchain investigators say greased the wheels of online scams. It is
Cronos, the Crypto.com-backed blockchain, deliberately erased nearly two hours of transaction history to recover approximately $111.2 million drained in an exploit of DeFi lending protocol Te
Key insights: Stablecoin news centers on U.S. Bank’s live cross-border USBDC payment pilot. The bank used Stellar to connect the payment to its internal infrastructure. The bank also plans se
A crypto bull run never feels like one while it is happening. It feels like flat charts and quiet record profits for early buyers. Bitcoin's short term whales hit a record $9.07 billion in pa
Tether and Fasanara Capital launched StableFund on Sept. 9, creating an evergreen private credit vehicle backed by $400 million in co-investment from the two sponsors. The fund will use Tethe
Hunter Biden said he is launching a Base-chain memecoin called $LAPTOP, and analytics firm Bubblemaps says nearly 80% of tracked traders have already lost money, with the token changing hands
Zora co-founder Dee Goens announced on Wednesday that he has taken over the position of chief executive of the onchain social network from Jacob Horne. The appointment of Goens comes at a cha
U.S. Bank says it has successfully completed a live cross-border payments pilot using its proprietary USBDC stablecoin issued on the public Stellar network. The test involved transfers betwee
Block, Inc. has moved to build a federally supervised custody business, applying to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish Builders Bank & Trust, N.A., a proposed national
1inch has routed more than $800 billion in trades, yet one of its co-founders reportedly says decentralized finance is still too small to turn a profit. It is a striking contradiction: enormo
The key points at a glance Two moments, two taxes: staking is taxed when the reward arrives and taxed again when you later sell it. Anyone thinking only about the sale is missing half the pic