South Korea\\\'s Bank of Korea ran a central bank digital currency, or CBDC, pilot for three months last year. Eighty-one thousand people opened wallets, but only 42% actually spent anything. The next p

Russia\\\'s State Duma, the lower house of its legislative body, takes its final two votes on the country\\\'s first comprehensive cryptocurrency law on Tuesday. The bill—titled \\\"On Digital Currency and Di

Cardano has hard forked, implementing the Van Rossem upgrade over the weekend and transitioning the network to protocol version 11. It’s not the first time Cardano has executed a hard fork—but it is

Bitcoin ETFs have posted back-to-back positive weeks for the first time since early May. The 13 U.S. spot Bitcoin funds pulled in $75.7 million in net inflows (money in exceeding money out) for the w

Ethereum treasury company Bitmine barely moved the needle on its ETH stack last week, adding just 7,430 ETH—about $14 million—as it steered capital toward buying back its own shares instead. This wee

Strategy added $225 million to its cash reserves last week—without selling a single Bitcoin. According to the company\\\'s latest SEC filing, the Bitcoin treasury firm sold 2,732,318 shares of its MSTR

Cross-chain bridge Allbridge has paused its protocol after an attacker drained roughly $1.65 million from its Solana liquidity pools in a flash loan attack, according to blockchain security firms and

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Michael Saylor has escalated his opposition to a contentious Bitcoin proposal, publishing a sweeping 110-point essay over the weekend arguing that BIP-110—a soft fork meant to curb non-financial data

Cardano\\\'s founding developer is letting go. Input Output announced Friday it will hand control of core blockchain infrastructure to outside specialist firms, beginning in August—the Haskell node, Plut

China did it again. Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3 in the dead of night and markets woke up today doing what they always do when a Chinese lab closes the gap: They panicked. Semiconductor and AI stocks

Moonshot AI just put out the biggest Chinese open-source model ever released, and it topped Claude Fable 5 at writing scripts. Towards AI\\\'s Writing Elo—a benchmark where models write real scripts jud

Starting with the 2026 season, Texas Tech\\\'s football stadium—currently Jones AT&T Stadium—will be rebranded Galaxy Stadium. Galaxy Digital, the Nasdaq-listed (GLXY) trading, asset-management and d

Three men have been jailed in the UK for a £4 million ($5.3 million) cryptocurrency fraud in which they posed as police officers to convince victims to hand over their coins—then spent the proceeds on

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