The freeze targets TRON-based addresses that held over $165 million, preventing those specific funds from being transferred or redeemed.
Blockchain investigator ZachXBT came down heavily on hardware wallets. BTC traded steady near $65,000 after South Korea’s rate hike.
The nonbinding resolution passed without objection after Bankman-Fried asked for clemency, months after Trump pardoned other major crypto figures, including Changpeng Zhao and Ross Ulbricht.
The coins went to a fresh address rather than an exchange, so nothing has been sold yet.
This is not a broad rally as bitcoin is up 4% over the same stretch, and solana, TRON and hyperliquid are all lower.
Bitcoin surges toward $65,000 on softer-than-expected inflation data, but on-chain signals show two key investor groups selling into the bounce.
Pollak said that Jordan Fish, also known on X as ‘Cobie,’ will lead the Base app team.
DTCC’s first live production trades using tokenized securities show how blockchain could reshape the infrastructure behind Wall Street.
The move creates a pathway for public companies to raise capital onchain and issue tokenized securities.
A hacker used Ostium’s own price-reporting infrastructure against the protocol, submitting falsified future-dated oracle data to manufacture fake trading profits and trigger an $18 million payout.
We don’t need to imagine the privacy pitfalls of age verification. They’ve been happening for years, argues Cardano Foundation CEO Frederik Gregaard.
In this week’s, Morgan Stanley’s Denny Galindo writes that as the crypto market expands, solana has historically been a better portfolio diversifier than ether, despite being more volatile.
The most contentious piece of the crypto market structure bill is unresolved in the final weeks of Senate runway, and administration officials are expected to meet on it.
The government also reaffirmed plans to pilot tokenized government bonds next year and explore tokenizing state-owned real estate.
The consortium-backed stablecoin would share reserve income with partners instead of the issuer, pressuring Circle’s margins if it debuts in 2026.
In this week’s edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we’re unpacking the timeline of all the changes at the Ethereum Foundation this year.
BlackRock’s digital asset funds attracted $15 billion in net inflows over the past year, but falling crypto prices drove the value of those holdings sharply lower.
Noxa, the launchpad behind CASHCAT’s rise, racked up nearly $12 million in fees before going dark, giving away its revenue, and leaving Robinhood Chain’s memecoin economy in freefall.
Lawmakers said crypto has outgrown its role as a payment method and requires rules designed for investment products.
Le highlighted increasing the U.S.-dollar reserve as an important lever in preferred stock STRC’s recovery back to around $90 having fallen below $75 last month.
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The bid, made together with Advent, follows an earlier expression of interest. PayPal has been reluctant to engage with the offer thus far.
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs took in about $181 million on Tuesday, a day after shedding roughly $425 million, per SoSoValue data. Ether ETFs added about $58 million.
The security will launch on HSBC’s Orion platform within the BoE and FCA’s Digital Securities Sandbox to test reduced settlement times and costs.
Forty companies now govern x402, the protocol Coinbase built and handed away. It settled about $24 million last month across 75 million payments.
The June CPI print pulled hike odds from 43% to 13%, with analysts now watching the September FOMC meeting for further cues on positioning.
The federal derivatives regulator, which oversees trading at Kalshi, argued it was inappropriate for Michigan to “bully” the firm into reversing trades.
Certain Democrats are taking an increasingly rigorous stand against the crypto market structure bill, which needs a significant number from their party to pass.
Shunyet Jan, Binance’s head of spot trading and derivatives, said the exchange is focusing more on payments and financial services than on trading alone as it drives the next phase of its expansion.
The bill, as currently drafted, has the power to stop sanctions evasion at scale, argues Ari Redbord, global head of policy at TRM Labs.