When bitcoin swings five percent in an hour, a stale exchange rate costs real money. Five mistakes exchanger operators make with rates and spreads — from manual updates to skipping a BestChange rate check.
A forged government email fooled Revolut's checks, and the bank handed over passports, selfies and Bitcoin transaction histories. No funds were touched, but the leak is a scammer's dream.
The founder of collapsed exchange FTX has asked the US Supreme Court to throw out his conviction and wipe an $11 billion forfeiture, arguing the trial blocked evidence that FTX had enough assets to repay customers.
AI transaction monitoring is becoming standard for crypto exchangers that want to catch suspicious transfers before a bank does. What it automates well, where it still needs a human, and how to pick a system.
Europe's regulator ESMA says Polymarket and Kalshi lack the EU authorization needed to sell event contracts, and warns their geo-blocks are easy to dodge with a VPN.
Blockstream is refusing to pay a 10% 'bug bounty' for the $47 million in bitcoin still missing after a hack on its Liquid sidechain, calling the demand extortion and vowing to pursue law enforcement.
For years OpenAI told Washington to go slow on AI rules. Now it's urging Congress to pass mandatory federal safety regulation before the session ends. Here's what changed — and why it suits the company too.
Senate Republicans released a revised 630-page CLARITY Act and set a procedural vote for September 15 — but no Democrat has backed it, and the bill is still several votes short of the 60 it needs.
SEBI and the Reserve Bank of India settled the first tokenized corporate bonds in wholesale digital rupees. REC, Larsen & Toubro and IIFL Finance together raised $116 million on a $620 billion market.
A multisig wallet needs several signatures instead of one to move funds. Here's a step-by-step guide to moving from a single-key cold wallet to multisig, common mistakes, and when to skip it.
Paul Christiano, the former head of alignment research at OpenAI and a co-creator of RLHF, has joined the company's nonprofit board and its Safety and Security Committee amid growing fears about AI risk.
Nasdaq invested $100 million in Payward, Kraken's parent company, at a $21 billion valuation. The firms are also building tokenized Nasdaq stocks that carry real shareholder voting rights.
RWA tokens promise easy access to bonds and real estate on-chain, but reality is messier. We debunk five common myths about real-world asset tokenization and what they mean for exchanger owners.
Hackers broke into a third-party email provider used by Trezor and sent phishing from the company's real address, claiming a fake chip flaw. Devices were untouched, but customer data had leaked a month earlier.
Joe Lubin's Consensys is splitting into two companies: the MetaMask wallet becomes independent, while the Ethereum infrastructure business keeps the Consensys name. The reason: uneven growth between units.
A bank freeze can stop a crypto exchanger cold. Here's what triggers account holds, how compliance systems flag transactions, and what to do if your funds are already stuck in review.
OpenAI says a swarm of 10,000 AI agents spent 88 hours proving a singularity in the Navier-Stokes equations, one of math's unsolved Millennium Prize Problems. Rival mathematicians call the announcement premature.
Germany's Finance Ministry drafted a bill taxing crypto gains at a flat 25% from 2027, replacing the current one-year tax-free holding rule. Here's what actually changes and when.
NSA, CISA and the FBI issued a rare joint advisory naming DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot AI and three other firms for industrial-scale distillation of Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok since late 2024.
Fraudsters increasingly use deepfake video to pass identity checks. Here are five signs your exchanger's fraud system should catch, plus an honest look at where AI detectors fall short without human review.