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.
The Japanese investment bank said Open USD’s yield pass-through model could pressure Circle’s margins by shifting more reserve income to distributors.
Wikipedia observes guidelines on crypto coverage that date back many years and may now be outdated, according to the report.
The joint roadmap aims to reduce regulatory friction for tokenized assets while strengthening ties between the world’s two largest financial centers.
Hyperliquid’s deal with Circle and Coinbase creates a “prisoner’s dilemma” that puts pressure on earnings from the dollar-pegged stablecoin.
The spinout comes amid one of the biggest organizational shakeups at the Ethereum Foundation in years.
Fidelity International’s Giselle Lai argues that the most compelling long-term use case for tokenized funds is balance-sheet management for large, global institutions, not 24/7 liquidity.
Mark Palmer said Hut 8’s Beacon Point project transforms the company into an AI infrastructure platform with a long growth runway.
This morning’s report could go a long way toward determining whether the Federal Reserve raises interest rates at its late-July meeting.
The pilot will test a beta version of the digital euro for online, offline, in-store, and e-commerce payments with ECB and central bank staff as users.