A New York Times investigation led by Pulitzer winner John Carreyrou has named Adam Back, the Blockstream CEO who invented Hashcash in 1997, as its best candidate for the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. Back denies the claim, and the evidence falls short of proof while still clearing a higher bar than any previous unmasking attempt.
The non-profit initiated an $11 million conversion through CoWSwap's time-weighted average price mechanism, just days after reaching its 70,000 ETH staking target — highlighting the tension between generating yield and meeting dollar-denominated expenses.
The confidential settlement ends a four-year legal battle that produced the first federal ruling confirming NFTs qualify as goods under US trademark law, with Ripps required to surrender all RR/BAYC smart contracts and domains within 10 days.
The new Ethereum execution client processes 1.7 billion gas units per second on a disk footprint of just 240 gigabytes, delivering a 20-fold improvement in block persistence and removing the execution layer as a bottleneck for the network's scaling roadmap.
Implied volatility on bitcoin options has fallen to its lowest level since January even as March CPI is expected to hit 3.4% year-on-year, up from 2.4% in February, driven by the Iran war energy shock.
Visa processed 97% of crypto-linked card transactions in March as monthly volume hit $600 million, driven by stablecoin adoption in Southeast Asia and a structural shift away from speculative spending.
Druk Holding & Investments moved another 319.7 BTC on Wednesday, continuing a methodical liquidation that has cut the kingdom's holdings by more than 70% from their 13,000 BTC peak.
Olaoluwa Osuntokun's prototype lets users prove wallet ownership without a digital signature, solving the collateral damage problem in Bitcoin's most likely response to quantum computing threats.
America's largest bitcoin ATM operator revealed that attackers stole 50.9 BTC from its corporate settlement wallets in late March after compromising internal credentials, prompting an FBI investigation and a material event filing with the SEC.
New CEO Stephen Gregory is steering the exchange beyond spot crypto trading into prediction markets and derivatives after its US market share collapsed from 20 per cent to almost nothing following a $4.3 billion federal penalty and years of regulatory turmoil.
A paper published by BTQ Technologies calculates that using quantum computers to mine bitcoin at current difficulty would demand roughly 10 to the power of 25 watts — approaching stellar energy output — and argues the real quantum threat lies in cryptographic signatures, not mining.
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A Galaxy Digital report finds 40 percent of publicly traded Bitcoin treasury companies trade below net asset value, with late entrants most exposed to forced liquidation or merger.
The International Monetary Fund has cautioned that moving trading infrastructure onto blockchain-based systems could accelerate financial crises beyond regulators' ability to respond, identifying four systemic risk categories in a landmark report.
DeFi Llama data reveals that dozens of well-funded Layer 1 and Layer 2 blockchains are generating virtually zero fees and haemorrhaging users. We examine five of the biggest flops, explain why a handful of chains are thriving, and ask what separates the living from the dead.
OKX Ventures and HashKey Capital have taken equity stakes in Vietnam Prosperity Crypto Asset Exchange, lifting the venue past the VND 10 trillion capital threshold Hanoi requires for its pilot crypto licensing regime. The deal closes an awkward gap in OKX's Southeast Asian footprint and turns a single domestic operator into the first serious candidate for one of five licences on offer.
FinCEN and OFAC jointly proposed rules that would treat permitted stablecoin issuers as financial institutions under the Bank Secrecy Act for the first time, imposing anti-money laundering programmes, suspicious activity reporting, and sanctions compliance obligations.
Despite Coinbase's chief legal officer declaring a deal was '48 hours away' in early April, the crypto market structure bill remains stuck as DeFi definitions and presidential conflicts of interest complicate negotiations.
Polygon Labs is seeking between $50 million and $100 million in equity to fund its Open Money Stack stablecoin payments business, built on the Coinme and Sequence acquisitions it completed in January. The raise positions Marc Boiron's company as a settlement layer underneath Stripe, Mastercard, and the banks, rather than a consumer-facing payments brand.
OKX Ventures and HashKey Capital have taken equity stakes in Vietnam Prosperity Crypto Asset Exchange, lifting the venue past the VND 10 trillion capital threshold Hanoi requires for its pilot crypto licensing regime. The deal closes an awkward gap in OKX's Southeast Asian footprint and turns a single domestic operator into the first serious candidate for one of five licences on offer.
The confidential settlement ends a four-year legal battle that produced the first federal ruling confirming NFTs qualify as goods under US trademark law, with Ripps required to surrender all RR/BAYC smart contracts and domains within 10 days.
A New York Times investigation led by Pulitzer winner John Carreyrou has named Adam Back, the Blockstream CEO who invented Hashcash in 1997, as its best candidate for the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. Back denies the claim, and the evidence falls short of proof while still clearing a higher bar than any previous unmasking attempt.
SOL Strategies, the Nasdaq-listed Solana infrastructure company, has agreed to buy zero-knowledge privacy startup Darklake Labs for $1.2 million, bringing the Zyga proof system and its research team in-house. The acquisition gives the validator operator a native defence against MEV and front-running at a moment when the Solana community is still absorbing its worst DeFi exploit.
The new Ethereum execution client processes 1.7 billion gas units per second on a disk footprint of just 240 gigabytes, delivering a 20-fold improvement in block persistence and removing the execution layer as a bottleneck for the network's scaling roadmap.
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