Bitcoin jumped to a two-month high on Friday after Iran declared that commercial traffic could flow freely through the Strait of Hormuz amid the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. “In line with th

Payward, the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, said Friday that it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire derivatives platform Bitnomial for up to $550 million in cash and stoc

The SEC\\\'s sweeping regulatory pivot under Chair Paul Atkins is sending the clearest signal yet that America\\\'s top securities regulator has chosen cooperation over confrontation with the crypto industr

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Bitcoin’s recent rally toward $76,000 faces a dilemma, leaving investors split on its near-term outlook. Funding rates for Bitcoin—a fee paid by derivatives traders to maintain the alignment between

USDC issuer Circle has been hit with a class action lawsuit from Drift Protocol investors who lost money during the April 1 exploit that saw $285 million drained from the the Solana DeFi platform. Th

A new Bitcoin improvement proposal dubbed BIP-361 seeks to save as much as 34% of Bitcoin’s supply—or more than 7 million coins valued at $536 billion—by freezing coins that don’t migrate to quantum-r

North Korea’s hacking spree has kept the crypto industry on high alert for years, but the Ethereum Foundation has indicated that the tide could turn in a matter of months. Establishing a program with

OpenAI announced today it has updated its Codex desktop app with computer use, an in-app browser, image generation, and over 90 new plugins. Almost one year after initially launching Codex, the compa

Russian crypto exchange Grinex said Thursday that it was hacked for more than 1 billion rubles, or around $13 million in funds. The firm, which has been linked to the sanctioned and seized exchange G

The use of artificial intelligence across the U.S. federal government has expanded dramatically in recent years, but significant obstacles—from talent shortages to public skepticism—are slowing the te

A supremely well-timed Polymarket trader netted hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit betting flawlessly on former President Joe Biden’s last acts in office, newly surfaced on-chain data has reve

Two months ago, a federal judge in New York ruled that a fraud defendant\\\'s private conversations with Anthropic\\\'s Claude were fair game for prosecutors. Now, the legal industry is still processing wha

Stack BTC has replaced its chief executive after completing a shift in strategy, marking a fresh attempt to stabilise the UK Bitcoin-focused investment vehicle and bolster investor confidence. The com

America’s largest discount brokerage is eyeing prediction markets, but Charles Schwab President and CEO Rick Wurster sees a big distinction between speculation on Taylor Swift’s love life and the late