16 articles
Author bio and disclosure information will appear here. See our disclosure policy for more information.
The $9 trillion broker rolled out Schwab Crypto to a first cohort of US retail clients on May 13, priced well below Coinbase's standard fee, with custody handled inside a chartered bank rather than an exchange.
MARA Holdings disposed of nearly a third of its bitcoin treasury in Q1 to retire zero-coupon convertibles and fund a pivot toward AI infrastructure — and its 10-Q no longer describes the firm primarily as a miner.
A class action filed in April alleges Circle had both the technical capability and a recent track record of freezing wallets, then declined to act for eight hours while $230 million in stolen USDC moved out of Solana through its own bridge.
Base announced on May 4 that its Azul upgrade would integrate Succinct's SP1 zero-knowledge prover alongside its existing TEE proof system, with mainnet activation planned for May 13. The change cuts withdrawal finality from a multi-day challenge window to roughly one day — and makes Base the largest single Ethereum operator to put ZK proofs in production.
Senators voted unanimously on April 30 to bar themselves and their staff from trading on prediction markets, an immediate amendment to Rule 37 introduced by Ohio Republican Bernie Moreno after months of insider-trading concerns over senators wagering on policy outcomes they themselves were shaping.
Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs reports that North Korean state-backed hackers stole approximately $577 million in 2026 — 76% of all crypto hack losses — across just two attacks: the Drift Protocol and Kelp DAO exploits.
Bitcoin's daily spot trading volume has fallen below $5 billion across major exchanges, the lowest reading since October 2023, with Glassnode warning that the resulting drop in market depth has historically preceded sharp directional moves rather than calm consolidation.
The world's largest stablecoin issuer is buying its way into the retail wallets that already serve three million users across the region — because at this scale, distribution is the moat, not liquidity.
Japanese Bitcoin treasury firm Metaplanet wrapped the world's most expensive billboard in a 'Secure the Future with Bitcoin' message this week. The advertising blitz coincides with a 25 per cent year-to-date drop in its share price and growing investor questions about whether the treasury model still works.
The largest IPO in history is targeting a 30 per cent retail allocation — roughly $22 billion — and analysts warn that the capital earmarked for SpaceX shares is the same risk-on money that has been propping up bitcoin's April rally.
The $12 trillion brokerage has begun a phased rollout of Schwab Crypto, offering direct bitcoin and ether trading through the same interfaces its clients already use for equities, with Paxos handling execution and custody sitting at its Premier Bank subsidiary.
The Besqala Mining Valley in Karakalpakstan will exempt operators from corporate and property tax until 2035, but requires all sale proceeds to be repatriated through Uzbekistan's domestic banking system.
LayerZero's post-mortem pins the largest DeFi exploit of 2026 on KelpDAO's single-verifier bridge configuration, but Kelp says it was using LayerZero's own defaults. North Korea's Lazarus Group has been attributed as the attacker.
A week after Iran's Strait of Hormuz reopening sent bitcoin past $75,000, the rally has run into a concentrated band of sell orders and increasingly nervous derivatives positioning.
The crypto asset manager's BAVA fund debuted on the NYSE on 15 April, staking roughly 70% of its AVAX holdings in-house while charging 0.34% — undercutting competitors in a three-way race for Avalanche exposure.
The social trading platform's acquisition of the keyless MPC wallet — which has never been hacked in seven years — is its clearest signal yet that it sees crypto's future in user-held assets rather than centralised order books.
