Standard Chartered plans to merge parts of Zodia Custody into its digital assets division
Standard Chartered plans to unify Zodia’s custody service with its digital asset division, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing people with knowledge...
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Coinbase gains AFSL licence to bring ‘Everything Exchange’ to Australia
Coinbase Australia has received an Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) with retail derivatives authorisation from the Australian Securities and Investments...
Coinbase Granted AFSL License in Australia by Financial Regulator
Global crypto exchange Coinbase said it is looking to expand its offerings in Australia to futures, options, stock trading, payments...
SEC Says Some Crypto Enforcement Cases Lacked Investor Benefit
Some past enforcement actions against cryptocurrency companies lacked clear investor benefit and misinterpreted federal securities laws, the US Securities and...
Iran War Cuts Local Hashrate but Global Bitcoin Network Holds Firm
Iran’s hashrate has plummeted over the past quarter amid an ongoing conflict with the US and Israel, though the war...
Libra Evidence Sparks Fresh Questions Over President Milei’s Role
Newly uncovered call logs suggest Argentine President Javier Milei spoke with one of the entrepreneurs behind the Libra token multiple...
Jack Dorsey’s Block launches Bitcoin Day event, offering $1M in BTC rewards
Cash App, Square, and Bitkey, all part of Jack Dorsey’s Block, are kicking off Bitcoin Day, a $1 million Bitcoin...
Strategy Buys 4,871 BTC, Reports $14.5B Unrealized Losses
Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest publicly listed holder of Bitcoin, resumed buying BTC last week after reporting no purchases...
The Future Of Institutional Crypto Runs Through Prime Brokerages
Opinion by: Dominic Lohberger, chief product officer at Sygnum.Counterparty risk in crypto markets has always moved in cycles. Exchanges default...
Anthropic Says One of Its Claude Models Was Pressured to Lie and Cheat
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has revealed that during experiments, one of its Claude chatbot models could be pressured to deceive,...
Jack Dorsey’s Decentralized Bitchat App Removed from China App Store
Bitchat, a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app developed by Block CEO Jack Dorsey, has been removed from Apple’s App Store in...
Drift Protocol Exploit Took ‘Months Of Deliberate Preparation’
Drift Protocol, a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange (DEX), says the recent exploit against the platform was a six-month-long, highly coordinated attack.“The...
$12 trillion Charles Schwab expected to debut spot Bitcoin, Ethereum trading this quarter
Top brokerage Charles Schwab, which oversees over $12 trillion in client assets, is preparing to launch the Schwab Crypto account...
Spain’s top soccer league LALIGA teams with Polymarket to create next-level fan experiences
LALIGA North America, a joint venture between Spain’s top soccer league and Relevent Sports Group, has teamed up with Polymarket...
Crypto Hackers Steal $168 Million from DeFi Protocols in Q1 2026
Crypto hackers stole over $168.6 million in cryptocurrency from 34 decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols in the first quarter of 2026,...
Big Tech Companies Form New x402 Foundation For Agentic AI
Google, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services are among the Big Tech firms named as founding members of the newly launched...
Polymarket taps Pyth to power stock, commodity, and index prediction markets
Polymarket has integrated Pyth Network as the resolution source for a new slate of financial prediction markets, further extending the...
Predict.fun lands YZi Labs and Susquehanna Crypto investment to scale BNB Chain prediction markets
Predict.fun said Tuesday it has secured a strategic follow-on investment from YZi Labs and Susquehanna Crypto, giving the BNB Chain-based...
Ripple Prime earns BBB rating from Kroll, reflecting robust capital support and early profitability
Ripple Prime, the institutional brokerage arm that grew out of Ripple Labs’ acquisition of Hidden Road, has received BBB issuer...
Riot Platforms Wallet Moves $34M in Bitcoin as Listed Miners Continue Sales
Arkham flagged a 500 Bitcoin outflow from a wallet it attributes to Riot Platforms on Wednesday, in a possible sale...
Franklin Templeton Expands Crypto Arm With CoinFund Deal
Global asset manager Franklin Templeton is set to expand its crypto footprint by acquiring a spinoff of the crypto-native investment...
Genius Group sells entire Bitcoin stash to clear debt, plans treasury rebuild when markets favor
Genius Group has sold its entire Bitcoin holdings to fully repay its $8.5 million debt, the company announced today. The...
