Regulators are loosening wallet rules, banks are moving into custody, and stablecoins are fighting over yield. Three plausible scenarios for crypto through late 2026, and what exchanger owners should watch now.
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.
Yield-bearing stablecoins pay interest straight into your balance, but US law bans issuers from doing it directly. Here's how the workaround works, three scenarios for 2026, and what to check before listing one.
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.
AI agents already book flights and buy subscriptions on their own. Here's how agentic commerce is reshaping crypto payments — and what exchanger owners should prepare for now.
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.
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.