Celsius's bankruptcy estate is suing five BitMEX entities, seeking 6,360 BTC — about $495 million — lost in forced liquidations during the 2020 crash. The suit accuses BitMEX of rigging its own liquidation engine.
The Fed raised its benchmark rate for the first time since 2023, to 3.75%-4%. New chair Kevin Warsh went hawkish on inflation despite a cooling labor market. Bitcoin and ether barely moved on the news.
Account abstraction turns a crypto wallet from a fragile 12-word vault into a normal-feeling account, with biometric login and backup recovery. Five signs your exchanger needs smart wallets, and when it's fine to wait.
A day after the Senate's Clarity Act collapsed, a House committee approved the first federal crypto tax bill by a near-unanimous 38-5 vote, setting rules for small transactions, staking and stablecoins.
Germany's largest bank is preparing a custody service for bitcoin, ether and select stablecoins, letting institutional clients hold crypto through familiar banking infrastructure by year's end.
Gold, bonds and real estate are turning into blockchain tokens — RWA is growing faster than the headlines suggest. Here's what tokenization actually means for exchanger owners heading into 2026, and what to plan for now.
X's new Cashtag Partner Program turns tickers like $BTC into a trade button linked to Coinbase, Kraken or Gemini. The platform doesn't touch your money — it just closes the gap between hype and a buy order.
The issuer of USDC has launched its Arc mainnet, a settlement blockchain for institutional finance. Among the founding validators are BlackRock, Visa, DTCC and Mastercard, while the new ARC token is valued at $3 billion.
The US Senate fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance the CLARITY Act, stalling America's crypto market-structure bill. Bitcoin slid to about $75,850 amid nearly $570 million in liquidations.
An MPC wallet splits your private key into cryptographic shares instead of separate keys like multisig, closing the hot wallet's single point of failure — the real difference, the risks, and when switching pays off.
The US Justice Department has charged two former Robinhood engineers who allegedly used inside knowledge of upcoming token listings to open perpetual futures positions on Hyperliquid before the news went public.
Balancer, one of DeFi's oldest AMM protocols, is winding down. Revenue never recovered after a $128M exploit last November, and its treasury council now plans to return remaining funds to BAL holders.
Proof-of-Reserves became the go-to trust signal after several exchange collapses, but most reports only show assets. Here are three myths about PoR and how a small exchanger can run one without a big team.
OpenAI has bought Glass Imaging, a California startup founded by ex-Apple engineers who built Portrait Mode, for over $300 million — its latest hardware move after buying Jony Ive's studio io Products.
The Hong Kong-founded exchange CoinEx is closing for good, citing thinning trading volumes and rising compliance costs across jurisdictions. Users have until December 22 to withdraw funds.
The U.S. is seeking to seize $61 million in crypto, alleging the funds trace back to black-market Iranian oil sales laundered through Binance trading accounts and partly routed to the Revolutionary Guard.
At the All-In summit, Trump phoned Nvidia's Jensen Huang live on stage and called warnings about AI risks a hoax, pushing back on Anthropic's call to slow down model development.
AI can answer payment-status and rate questions around the clock, but disputed transfers still need a human. Here's what to automate in exchanger support, what not to, and how to set the boundary right.
Microsoft published a draft code of conduct for its MAI models, banning deception, hacking, and resistance to shutdown. Public comment runs six weeks, with a final version guiding development from 2027.
Zero-knowledge proofs let you confirm a customer is who compliance needs them to be — age, sanctions status, funds source — without ever storing their ID scan. Here's how it actually works, and where it falls short.