In a major development, payments giant Visa is collaborating with stablecoin infrastructure firm Brale to run a proof of concept for institutional payment settlement using SBC, a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, on the Canton Network, with privacy controls as the central…
In an important development, the United States House Ways and Means Committee circulated seven discussion draft bills addressing digital asset taxation ahead of a hearing scheduled for June 9, covering stablecoins, staking, mining and transactions. The draft proposals aim to…
Leading crypto exchange Coinbase froze more than $3 million in cryptocurrency tied to a global operation targeting cyber-enabled crypto scam networks in Southeast Asia, the exchange said this week. The action was part of Disruption Week, led by the U.S.…
Leading crypto liquidity provider, Wintermute has begun providing two-sided liquidity on prediction markets, the London-based algorithmic trading firm said on Friday, as event contract trading surpasses $60 billion in 2026. The firm processes more than $3.5 trillion in annual trading…
In a positive development, small and medium-sized enterprises in Vietnam could soon walk into a bank with digital assets or intellectual property and walk out with a loan, under a proposal put forward by the country’s Ministry of Finance. The…
Alex Mashinsky is asking a federal court to throw out the 144-month prison sentence handed to him following the collapse of crypto lending platform Celsius Network, filing a motion to vacate that challenges the integrity of the sentencing process rather…
A fault in leading layer-1 blockchain Sui’s gas charging system brought the blockchain to a standstill for the third time this year on Friday, with block production halting for over three hours and thirty minutes before validators pushed through an…
In a significant development, the United States has opened the door to regulated bitcoin perpetual futures trading on domestic soil for the first time, with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) approving KalshiEX to list the product on Friday. Commenting…
Leading crypto advocacy group, The Digital Chamber, has told the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency(OCC) to hold its ground on the national trust bank charters it has granted to crypto firms, rejecting Senator Elizabeth Warren’s characterisation of the…
US President Donald Trump has publicly entered the escalating fight over prediction markets, declaring that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission(CFTC) holds exclusive authority over the space and calling out state officials by name for attempting to regulate platforms that his…
