Tillis Draft Decides Who Owns Your Stablecoin Interest—Banks or Crypto
The fight over who gets to pay interest on your stablecoins just became the most important banking turf war in crypto.
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South Korea Shuts Down Major Crypto Exchange for Three Months
South Korea just proved that crypto exchanges still can't figure out basic financial compliance, and it's costing them millions. Coinone faces a $3.5 million fine and three-month partial business suspension for anti-money laundering violations in South Korea
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Bitcoin Futures Architect Ditches BigLaw for Crypto Full Time
The man who greenlit Bitcoin futures is leaving BigLaw to bet full-time on the industry he helped legitimize. Chris Giancarlo is leaving his law firm role to focus entirely on advising fintech and digital asset companies
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Amazon Buys Satellite Company After Falling Years Behind Starlink
Amazon is about to buy its way into the satellite internet war, and the target tells you exactly how far behind Starlink it really is. Amazon is in advanced talks to acquire Globalstar, the satellite operator best known for powering Apple's emergency SOS feature
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Ondo Asks SEC to Put Real Stocks on Ethereum
Ondo just asked the SEC if they can put actual stocks on Ethereum, and the regulator's answer might unlock trillions in tokenized equity. Ondo Finance is seeking SEC approval to tokenize traditional equities on Ethereum, making stocks tradable as blockchain-native tokens
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Taiwan's Chip Stocks Hit Records While Missiles Fly Nearby
Taiwan's stock market just hit a record high because investors decided AI chips matter more than Middle East missiles. Taiwanese stocks climbed to a new all-time high as money flooded back into AI-focused shares despite ongoing geopolitical tensions
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Kraken Refuses to Pay Hackers Holding Customer Data Hostage
Kraken just drew a line in the sand against crypto extortionists, and it's a test case for every centralized exchange trying to bridge Web2 security culture with Web3 promises.
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Strategy's Bitcoin Machine Just Printed $1 Billion in 24 Hours
Strategy just turned its bitcoin treasury into a billion-dollar-a-day money printer, and the side effects are starting to show. Strategy's STRC convertible note issued $1 billion in single-day volume, trading at 100% above par value
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SEC Quietly Exempts Crypto Apps From Registration After Years of Enforcement Threats
The SEC just told crypto frontends they don't have to register as broker-dealers, and the fine print matters more than the headline. SEC staff released guidance exempting "crypto interface providers" from broker-dealer registration under specific conditions
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Bitcoin Funds Pull $1.1B as Institutions Reverse Three-Month Retreat
Crypto investment products just had their best week in three months, and it wasn't a memecoin rally that did it. Crypto ETPs pulled in $1.1 billion last week, the strongest inflows since January, driven by Bitcoin and US spot ETFs
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Circle CEO Refuses to Freeze $1.35M in Stolen USDC Without Court Order
Circle's CEO just told the crypto world that your stablecoin is only as stable as a judge's signature, and the industry is asking who really owns what on-chain.
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OpenAI Ran 36,000 Biology Experiments Before Regulators Even Knew
OpenAI's GPT-5 just ran 36,000 wet-lab biology experiments without a human pipetting a single sample, and nobody asked permission first. OpenAI and Ginkgo Bioworks ran GPT-5 autonomously through 36,000 biological experiments via robotic cloud labs, cutting protein production costs by 40%
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Kraken Refuses to Pay Extortionists Who Breached Its Support System
Kraken just drew a line in the sand on crypto extortion, and every exchange is watching what happens next. Kraken's Chief Security Officer confirmed the exchange is being extorted after two separate insider incidents leaked data from roughly 2,000 clients.
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ECB Greenlights Tokenized Markets—But Its Rules Could Kill Half the Players
The European Central Bank just gave tokenization a green light, but with a catch that could reshape who wins in the race to rebuild capital markets on-chain. The ECB sees tokenization as a path to unify Europe's fragmented capital markets, improving liquidity and efficiency across borders.
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Farage Buys $2 Million in Bitcoin as UK Moves to Ban Crypto Donations
The first sitting UK MP just put £2 million into Bitcoin through a public company while his government moves to ban crypto donations to politicians. Nigel Farage became the first sitting UK MP to publicly purchase Bitcoin, fronting a £2 million ($2.5-2.7 million) buy through Stack BTC Plc
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SEC Just Told Crypto Where It Can Build Without a License
The SEC just told crypto builders where the regulatory fence line actually is, and it's not where most lawyers thought. The SEC issued new guidance saying certain user-facing interfaces for crypto securities trading may skip broker-dealer registration if they meet specific conditions.
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Bitmine Just Became Ethereum's Largest Single Threat With $11.8B Hoard
A single company now controls 4% of all Ethereum in existence, and it just made its largest purchase in four months. Bitmine Immersion Technologies added $157 million in ETH last week, its biggest buy since December, bringing total holdings to 4.87 million ETH worth $11.8 billion.
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Apple's "Secure" App Store Let Scammers Steal $400,000 in Bitcoin
Apple's App Store, supposedly the Fort Knox of software distribution, just let a fake Ledger app steal a musician's entire Bitcoin retirement fund.
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South Korea's Central Bank Wants Kill Switches After $60B Bitcoin Blunder
South Korea's central bank just asked for kill switches on crypto exchanges after one of them accidentally sent customers $60 billion in Bitcoin. Bithumb mistakenly transferred 620,000 Bitcoin instead of 620,000 Korean won to customers in February (roughly $60 billion at current prices versus $440).
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Bitcoin Analysts Call $88,000 as Chart Pattern Signals Imminent Breakout
Bitcoin is stuck at a ceiling while analysts bet on $88,000, and the chart just called their bluff. Analysts are pointing to ETF flows, macro conditions, and on-chain supply metrics as bullish catalysts for Bitcoin to hit $88,000, even with geopolitical tensions in play
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