Cardano has secured a foothold inside one of Europe's most tightly regulated digital asset venues.
Jack Mallers' Bitcoin payments company Strike has obtained a BitLicense and Money Transmitter License from the New York State Department of Financial Services, clearing the path to offer its complete product lineup to New York residents and businesses.
Vitalik Buterin isn't interested in making Ethereum more palatable to the mainstream. In a pointed set of directives for 2026, the co-founder is pushing developers toward what he's calling a fundamental rethink - one that prioritizes self-sovereignty over convenience and long-term resilience over short-term growth.
Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) has moved against multiple entities operating under the KuCoin brand, ordering them to immediately cease all virtual asset activities in the emirate after finding they had been serving local residents without the required regulatory approval.
A prediction making the rounds in crypto circles right now is bold enough to stop the scroll: Bitcoin at $500,000 before the year is out.
A 25-year-old former government contractor was arrested Wednesday on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, accused of stealing more than $46 million in cryptocurrency from wallets managed on behalf of the U.S. Marshals Service - wallets that held assets seized in some of the federal government's highest-profile digital asset cases.
The days of buying almost any altcoin and watching it double during a crypto bull run may be finished. That's the assessment of Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise Asset Management, who argues that the mechanics driving previous altcoin seasons have fundamentally broken down.
The numbers are hard to spin. According to the Chainalysis 2026 Crypto Crime Report, illicit cryptocurrency transactions reached at least $154 billion in 2025 - a 162% jump from the revised 2024 figure of $57.2 billion.
The first U.S. spot ETF tracking Polkadot's native token launched Thursday, as 21Shares began trading TDOT on the Nasdaq — a regulatory milestone that gives institutional investors direct, regulated exposure to DOT for the first time.
Kazakhstan's National Bank has carved out a portfolio of up to $350 million from its gold and foreign exchange reserves - now totaling $69.4 billion - for investment in cryptocurrency-linked instruments.
In mid-2025, TMTG deployed roughly $2 billion to build what it called a "Bitcoin Treasury," acquiring approximately 11,500 BTC at an average price somewhere between $115,000 and $118,000 per coin.
The U.S. labor market took a sharp and unexpected turn in February, shedding 92,000 nonfarm payroll jobs - a stark reversal from consensus forecasts that had projected gains of 50,000 to 60,000.



