Yield-bearing stablecoin slowdown ends three-year run for crypto-native products
Yield-bearing stablecoin supply fell 15% in Q2 as sUSDe and sUSDS contracted, while Treasury-backed products including BUIDL, USYC and USDY continued to grow.
Yield-bearing stablecoin supply fell 15% in Q2 as sUSDe and sUSDS contracted, while Treasury-backed products including BUIDL, USYC and USDY continued to grow.
OFAC added 134 crypto wallet addresses linked to ISIS-K to its sanctions list, including 131 Tron addresses that received more than $1.4 million in crypto donations, according to Chainalysis.
The proposal aims to give the American public a financial stake in AI while easing political scrutiny of the industry.
The teenager allegedly helped to breach a luxury jeweler and demand $8 million in crypto, as part of a crew tied to $100 million in ransoms.
Taiko restored bridge transfers after replenishing asset backing and completing security fixes following an 11-day network disruption.
The Japanese firm, now the world’s third largest publicly traded bitcoin holder, reported stronger Bitcoin Income Generation revenue.
Metaplanet bought 2,823 Bitcoin during the second quarter, reducing its average acquisition cost to $106,500 per BTC, and reported $10.9 million in revenue from its income generation strategy.
The protocol completed a multi-stage recovery that included an independent security review. The TAIKO token has surged as much as 136% in recent trading.
OpenAI has reportedly discussed giving the US government a 5% equity stake in early Trump administration talks as Washington tightens AI model oversight.
Validators and the people who stake with them can now formally signal where the network should go through a new system called Solana Governance Proposals. Any validator with 100,000 SOL behind it can open one, and stakers can overrule how their validator votes.
New wallet creation hit a three-month high and large-holder activity strengthened, but XRP still needs to reclaim $1.10 before the recovery looks convincing.
Long-term holding wallets have shifted to net accumulation from net distribution, according to Glassnode.
The crypto protocol dYdX has rebranded as Arcus and is joining Robinhood’s new blockchain to bring perpetual and tokenized stock trading.
Patel loaded up on BTC-holder MSTR shares but failed to file a timely disclosure, according to a report by nonpartisan news outlet NOTUS.
Bitcoin climbed back above $60,000 for the first time in over a week after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh said inflation risks had come down. Solana led the majors, up about 16% on the week, while a semiconductor selloff hit Asian markets and dented the AI trade that has pulled capital from crypto all quarter.
French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez promised a “more ambitious” three-part plan to reinforce security measures for the crypto sector.
The June close above realized price but below the 200-week moving average “signals the bear bottom is still ahead per prior cycles,” one analyst said.
The funding round is Venice AI’s first external capital raise since it launched in May 2024.
The Trump sons’ American Bitcoin hit a low on Wednesday ahead of the company’s reverse stock split, which aims to buoy shares and keep it on the Nasdaq.
Bitcoin rallied above $60,000 despite Federal Reserve rate hike fears and steady outflows from the BTC spot ETFs. Is the rally a bull trap?
The company announced a suite of DeFi products, plans for launching crypto trading in the UK and its public mainnet after months of testing.
Its launch comes as Ethereum’s support ecosystem undergoes a broader evolution, following the debut of EthLabs and amid ongoing efforts by the Ethereum Foundation to respond to community criticism over transparency, communication and its role within the ecosystem.
Brokerage and crypto exchange Robinhood opened the public mainnet for its Arbitrum-powered Ethereum layer-2 network on Wednesday.
Venice reached a $1 billion valuation as founder Erik Voorhees argued AI companies should protect users’ conversations.
Franklin Templeton transferred a tokenized US Treasury to Virtu Financial in what Tradeweb said was the first real-time transaction settled against USDCx.
Bitcoin found its footing after bulls took steps to reclaim the $60,000 level, but data casts doubt on whether it will flip back to support.
The 1.6 trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model spent two months disguised as “Owl Alpha” before Meituan claimed it—and it undercuts GPT-5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5 on price by a wide margin.
Colorado’s Democratic and Republican primaries finished on Tuesday, with at least one candidate supported by $1 million from a crypto-aligned PAC going to the November general election.
A 40-scientist panel found that AI capabilities are outrunning both scientific understanding and government oversight.