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Russia's central bank has cleared 17 crypto exchangers, including Sberbank and VTB, as both banks ready retail crypto trading by 1 December.
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Securitize shares slide 38% since it put Apple and Nvidia stock on Solana
Securitize stock is down 38% since it launched tokenised Apple, Nvidia and Tesla shares on Solana. It still hasn't said how much trades.
Lord Kulveer Ranger on digital assets, digital pound, and stablecoins
Lord Ranger is a Member of the UK House of Lords and serves as Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Digital Markets and Digital Money.
Drift to issue ‘recovery tokens’ in wake of $295m hack
Developers behind Solana-based derivatives exchange Drift proposed on Tuesday a recovery plan that would funnel protocol revenue to users who lost money in a devastating April hack.The developers also proposed relaunching the…
DeFi rides Pokémon trading card boom as onchain marketplaces bring in $11m
A version of this story appeared in The Decentralised newsletter on May 5. Sign up here.GM, Tim here.Decentralised finance is notorious for being home to some pretty wacky ideas with dubious commercial…
Coinbase shares pop as CEO Brian Armstrong cuts 700 jobs and blames AI
Coinbase just cut 700 jobs. But Wall Street is liking what it sees.Coinbase shares popped as much as 4% early on Tuesday morning after the flagship US crypto exchange announced it was…
Uniswap DAO votes to take back $42m of governance tokens loaned to delegates
The digital cooperative governing Uniswap, the biggest decentralised exchange, is voting on a proposal to take back some $42 million worth of governance tokens from delegates.Between 2022 and 2023, Uniswap’s decentralised autonomous…
Hyperliquid takes aim at Kalshi, Polymarket targeting $24bn prediction markets
Hyperliquid is nibbling away at Kalshi and Polymarket.The decentralised finance exchange processing $6 billion in daily derivatives volume launched its first outcome contracts over the weekend — and the early numbers turned…
Strategy shares soar 50% in a month as Bitcoin tops $80,000 ahead of Q1 earnings call
Strategy is on a tear.Shares of the world's largest corporate Bitcoin holder have surged more than 50% over the past month, riding the top crypto’s climb past $80,000 as short sellers scramble…
Aave secures emergency hearing to void ‘catastrophic’ restraining order
An emergency hearing on Wednesday could determine whether the relatives of a slain minister are entitled to $71 million in crypto that was nearly stolen by North Korean hackers last month.The hearing,…
Clarity Act odds surge on stablecoin compromise, Coinbase support
The Clarity Act's odds of passing in 2026 skyrocketed on Friday. Here's why.
‘Every hit earns crypto’? App that gives users Bitcoin for getting stoned deemed ‘dangerous’ and ‘unethical’
A California-based cannabis vape pen company that says it rewards customers with crypto for using its product is raising alarm among health experts and anti-drug campaigners.Gudtrip advertises itself as building a user-powered…
Ethereum devs huddled in the Arctic Circle to fix the network. Here’s what to know
Ethereum's core developers have delivered their most significant technical milestone in months, emerging from a week above the Arctic Circle with a credible roadmap to dramatically scale the network's capacity.Last week, just…
Bitcoin tops $80,000 price as Clarity Act nears Senate floor with new Fed chair imminent
Bitcoin punched through $80,000 on Monday, up 19% over the past month, as a twin engine of institutional demand and legislative momentum roars back to life.On the first day of May alone,…
Crypto companies raised $600m in April despite despite market downturn, VCs say
Crypto companies raised just over $600 million from venture investors in April, DefiLlama data shows.That’s despite the epidemic of “disingenuous innovation” that is plaguing the digital assets industry, Diego Martin, CEO of…
Crypto industry reels as April sees highest number of hacks ever
April was a bad time for the crypto industry.Over the past month, 29 crypto projects have suffered hacks or exploits, the highest monthly tally in the industry’s history, per DefiLlama data.Among them…
Hegseth recasts Bitcoin as national security asset amid Russia, China expansion
Bitcoin just got a war upgrade.On Thursday, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told Congress that Bitcoin projects inside the Pentagon are “classified and ongoing,” while stressing that the top crypto is…
Anthropic’s new Mythos AI will hit crypto. Bitcoin investors don’t care, says Coinbase
Artificial intelligence is a Sword of Damocles dangling over crypto — but Wall Street isn’t quailing, says Coinbase.Anthropic’s new Claude Mythos AI model is able to exploit security vulnerabilities autonomously and therefore…
US Senate bans prediction market trading by Senators, staff
The US Senate voted unanimously to ban prediction market trading among Senators and their staffers on Thursday.The Senate joined several other organisations that have banned employees from trading on the platforms to…
Democrat Senators question Howard Lutnick over Tether ties
A pair of US Senators are demanding answers from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick after a recent news report raised questions about his relationship with Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin issuer.A trust benefitting…
Vitalik-backed MegaETH sees token fall 55% on first day trading
MegaETH’s token is off to a shaky start.On Thursday, the layer 2 blockchain, which lists Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin among its early investors, launched its MEGA token, airdropping some 500 million tokens…
XRP held back by ‘two forces’ analyst says as traders bet on price to plunge
XRP has a lot going for it.The cryptocurrency is intimately linked to Ripple, the company whose founders developed it, and the venture’s fortunes.But despite Ripple having notched several big wins over the…
Elizabeth Warren slams Trump after expose ties World Liberty Financial to crypto projects linked to human trafficking group
Elizabeth Warren has lashed out against World Liberty Financial over news that the Trump family-run crypto company partnered with a blockchain venture called AB, which has links to a sanctioned criminal syndicate.The…
A wallet tied to one of crypto’s most notorious hackers is laundering funds again
A wallet belonging to Andean Medjedovic, the hacker allegedly behind the Indexed Finance and Kyberswap exploits, is active again after a year-long hiatus.On Wednesday, the wallet sent some $13.5 million worth of…
Tokenisation will balloon to $2tn despite DeFi turbulence, Standard Chartered says
Tokenisation will balloon some 5,600% to be a $2 trillion market by 2028, according to Standard Chartered.At the heart of the forecast is continued expansion in decentralised finance lending via stablecoins, which…
Bitcoin price slips on ‘discord’ risk at Fed amid messy regime change. ‘No choice but to stay’
Bitcoin stumbled after Jerome Powell’s final presser at the helm of the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, sliding 2% to $75,000 as cracks inside the central bank rattled markets.Traders digested an unusually divided…
Judge dismisses SBF ‘facts,’ new trial request in scathing order
In February, Sam Bankman-Fried said he had found new evidence that could prove he never set out to defraud customers of his bankrupt crypto exchange, FTX.On Tuesday, a federal judge said the…
Senators advance Warsh nomination after DOJ drops Fed chair probe
US Senators voted on party lines Wednesday to advance the nomination of Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Reserve.The vote in the Senate Banking Committee puts Warsh on…
DeFi lender Sky hits $124m revenue record. Yet token holders aren’t impressed
Sky is the most profitable it has ever been — and it might have institutions to thank for that.On Wednesday, the Sky Frontier Foundation released the Q1 2026 financial results for the…
Billionaire trader Paul Tudor Jones made bank in gold. Now he calls Bitcoin the ‘best inflation hedge’
Paul Tudor Jones is heaping praise on Bitcoin.In a Wednesday appearance of the Invest Like The Best podcast, the billionaire hedge fund manager, who was one of several traders to capitalise on…
Robinhood primed for rebound after shares tank 8% in Q1 miss, Bernstein says
Robinhood is primed to rebound from a bruising first-quarter where crypto-driven revenue plunged 47%, according to research and brokerage firm Bernstein.On Wednesday, Bernstein reaffirmed its “outperform” rating on Robinhood and kept a…
Bitcoin traders flip bullish on price ahead of Powell’s final FOMC as Fed chair
Bitcoin is holding firm near $77,000 ahead of Jerome Powell’s final press conference as Federal Reserve chair.Now, traders’ risk appetite is back, Split Research founder Zaheer Ebtikar said in a note shared…
Aave-led 'DeFi United' campaign raises $300m to address Kelp DAO breach
A version of this story appeared in The Decentralised newsletter on April 28. Sign up here.There’s been a silver lining to this month’s devastating Kelp DAO/LayerZero hack: DeFi United, an impromptu, crowdsourced…
Bitcoin mining meltdown? Why IREN’s real future is in AI, according to Bernstein
Artificial intelligence is the real opportunity for Bitcoin miners, analysts say.IREN’s future now rests on transforming into a hyperscale AI cloud operator, rather than mining Bitcoin as it had done in the…
Aave publishes plan to plug $246m hole left by Kelp DAO attackers
Aave and Compound are moving closer to plugging the $246 million hole left by the Kelp DAO hack.On Tuesday, DeFi United, a coalition of several protocols that includes the top decentralised finance…
Bitmine buys $294m more Ethereum ahead of Clarity Act ‘markup in May’
Bitmine continues to amass the largest Ethereum war chest as US lawmakers debate crypto’s future.On Monday, the crypto treasury firm bought up another $294 million worth of Ether in its largest haul…
Bitcoin treasury Metaplanet bets on splashy advertising to turn around its ailing share price
High-tier conference sponsorships, an award-winning Japanese dance troupe, and most recently an appearance on the imposing Las Vegas Sphere.These are just some of the things that Japanese Bitcoin treasury firm Metaplanet has…
Justin Sun announces $20m boost for Aave as he calls on lender to expand to his blockchain
Crypto mogul Justin Sun has announced a $20 million liquidity injection for Aave, and called on the top DeFi lender to expand to Tron, the blockchain he founded in 2017.Sporting some $5.3…
French police record 135 crypto kidnapping cases since 2023 as crime wave swells
Police in France say 75 suspects are in pre-trial detention after attempting to kidnap crypto owners or their families — and demand Bitcoin and altcoins in exchange for their release.
Banks are fighting a ‘sideshow’ as Clarity Act stalls. Will it matter?
The Clarity Act is stalling in Washington — but industry insiders say the outcome has already been decided.Zachary Townsend, CEO of crypto insurance company Meanwhile, says that traditional banks lobbying to block…
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