White House Touts ‘Trump Coin’ as TRUMP Memecoin Holders Sit on $3.81 Billion in Losses
The White House posted a nine-second video promoting a new $1 “Trump Coin” on Wednesday, briefly rattling the market for...
Year: 2026
US Senate Unanimously Opposes Any Pardon for Sam Bankman-Fried After FTX Fraud
The U.S. Senate unanimously approved S.Res. 772, a bipartisan resolution opposing any presidential pardon or commutation for former FTX CEO...
Ripple’s Schwartz Says SEC Treated XRP Like a Security Despite Calling the Crypto ‘Just Code’
Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz says the SEC effectively treated XRP as a security despite acknowledging the crypto token was...
Alpaca raises $135M to fund tokenized agent-first infrastructure
The BNP-backed brokerage infrastructure provider is expanding into tokenized markets and AI-native financial services as both DeFi and TradFi companies...
Gambling on random Pokémon cards: Onchain gagcha hits record high as crypto sinks
Users spent a record $324 million on onchain gacha in June, even as Bitcoin hit a 21-month low. The thrill...
Prediction markets defy crypto downturn with record Q2 volume: CoinGecko
Prediction markets reached a record $113.8 billion in notional volume in Q2 as spot CEX trading, derivatives volume and stablecoin...
MoonPay buys Glide to bolster crypto deposits infrastructure
MoonPay acquired Glide, a crypto infrastructure startup founded by former Robinhood Wallet engineers, to expand cross-chain crypto deposit infrastructure.MoonPay has...
Tokenized stocks market cap gains to record $2.3B
The market capitalization of tokenized stocks rose to a record $2.3 billion, as investors sought exposure to the growing list...
FATF urges faster crypto AML enforcement as stablecoin crime increases
The global task force said criminal networks are using stablecoins and developing proprietary tokens to evade asset freezes as countries...
ARK pushes back against a16z’s ‘TradFi wants blockchain, not DeFi’ claim
ARK Invest’s director of research disputed a16z crypto’s thesis that traditional finance will adopt permissioned blockchain infrastructure instead of decentralized...
Autonomous AI agent economy faces infrastructure gaps: Visa, Artemis
Visa and Artemis found that infrastructure bottlenecks are preventing broader commercial adoption of the autonomous AI agent economy.Artificial intelligence (AI)...
Stanford Study: Polymarket’s Bitcoin Bets Were Rigged in the Final 10 Seconds
A small group of traders extracted $8.2 million from Polymarket’s five-minute bitcoin contracts by pushing the spot price on Binance...
Coinbase Policy Chief Calls CLARITY Act a ‘Dramatic Advance’: Here’s What Comes Next in the Senate
Coinbase Chief Policy Officer Faryar Shirzad said the Clarity Act delivers “a dramatic advance in consumer protection and market integrity,”...
Is Bitcoin Really Headed to $38,000? NYDIG’s October Scenario, Explained
Bitcoin could sink to a cycle low of $38,000 to $39,000 by October if the current drawdown matches the depth...
Solana Hits 300,000 RWA Holders as Ethereum’s $16.3 Billion Value Lead Starts to Slip
Solana’s real-world asset holder base has climbed to an all-time high above 300,000 wallets, ranking the network first among all...
