The company that began mining bitcoin with flared natural gas has raised $3.9 billion at a $30.9 billion valuation — triple last year's figure. The cash will fund data centers serving OpenAI, Meta and Microsoft.
Chainalysis found malicious blockchain writes jumped 440% in under a year, with state-linked hackers turning Bitcoin, Tron and BNB Chain into unremovable dead drops for stolen data and commands.
Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang revealed his firm holds ZEC, and Zcash jumped 20% in a day, up 160% over the month to a record $1,385 — right as the community voted through the NU7 upgrade.
The CFTC expanded March's one-off relief for wallet maker Phantom into an industry rule: makers of non-custodial wallets and DeFi front-ends can now link users to regulated derivatives without broker registration.
Ratings giant S&P Global has agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin, whose code libraries secure smart contracts behind $37 trillion in transferred value. The deal aims to speed up traditional markets' move onchain.
The SEC granted a five-year exemption for tokenized US stocks to trade via smart contracts on public blockchains, skipping broker and exchange status — two days after the Senate voted down the CLARITY Act.
A House committee approved a bill turning the US Bitcoin reserve into federal law, with a 20-year holding rule, quarterly reports and a separate fund for seized crypto.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.