DeFi

Japan’s Lower House Passes Bill Moving Crypto Under Securities Law, Opening Path to ETFs and 20% Tax Rate

Japan's lower house passed a bill amending the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act to regulate crypto like stocks, opening a path to regulated ETFs...

Monero Jumps 30% After ZachXBT Traces $120M USDT Laundering Run Through Privacy Coin

Monero surged roughly 30% to an intraday high of $438 on Thursday after blockchain investigator ZachXBT traced a $120 million USDT movement that included...

SpaceX Begins Nasdaq Trading With Tokenized Versions Mirroring Largest IPO in History

SpaceX opened for trading on Nasdaq Friday under SPCX, completing what Nasdaq and Morgan Stanley confirmed as the largest IPO in history at $75...

Second Circuit Affirms SBF’s Fraud Conviction and 25-Year Sentence

A three-judge Second Circuit panel affirmed Sam Bankman-Fried’s conviction on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy, along with his 25-year prison sentence, closing his...

Q2 2026 Sets All-Time High for DeFi Hack Count With ~70 Exploits, $746M Stolen

DeFi logged approximately 70 separate exploits in Q2 2026, roughly doubling the previous quarterly record, even as the $746 million dollar total remains a...

The SpaceX IPO scramble brings early lesson for tokenized stocks

One person familiar with the matter told CoinDesk that xStocks and its distribution partners gathered more than $1 billion in customer orders. But when...

Why crypto’s future may look more like traditional markets

Those markets function because trading activity sits atop a vast network of credit relationships, clearing brokers and prime brokerage arrangements, Mercer says."That's what the...

Hester Peirce Bids Farewell to the SEC After Nearly 30 Years

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce delivered her farewell remarks Tuesday at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Capital Markets Summit, closing a tenure defined by crypto-industry...

Tokenization mirrors the $20 trillion ETF boom as blockchain and AI converge, new Ondo exec says

"ETFs were referred to as weapons of mass destruction," Hoffman said, recalling the skepticism that surrounded the structure before it became one of the...

Morpho’s $175M DeFi Round Tests Onchain Credit’s Future

Investors are increasingly backing stablecoin and credit infrastructure rather than decentralized finance (DeFi) lending alone, with Morpho Labs' latest funding round drawing attention to...

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Crypto giant Galaxy sets up $5 million fund to future-proof Bitcoin security

Galaxy Digital (GLXY) said it set up a $5...

Russia Advances Crypto Regulation Bill for Final Vote

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Ether Breaks Above $1,900 Taking Bears By Surprise. Is $2,100 Next?

Key takeaways:Despite ETH’s price gains, weak onchain activity and...

Bitcoin Is NOT Changed By Proof Of Node

You might have heard about BIP-110; here’s...

SEC Targets Mining Automatic in Alleged $22M Fraud Case

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sued...