DeFi

Bitcoin tumbles below $79,000 as rising bond yields, inflation worries rattle markets

Stocks, gold and crypto slide while crude oil tops $100 and traders rapidly reprice Fed expectations for rate hikes.

CoinDesk 20 performance update: BNB is only gainer as index drops 2%

BNB (BNB) rose 0.4% while Bitcoin (BTC) fell 1.3% from Thursday.

THORChain Halts Trading After ZachXBT Flags $10M Exploit

Decentralized liquidity protocol THORChain halted trading after blockchain investigator ZachXBT flagged a suspected exploit of more than $10 million.A THORChain alerts Telegram channel showed...

OKX, Korea Investment and Securities said to be in talks for 40% of Coinone

OKX's planned move into the South Korean market would echo that of Binance, which completed its acquisition of Seoul-based Gopax last year.

Hyperliquid leads 24-hour gains as altcoins pace bitcoin

HYPE’s surge is being fueled by Bitwise’s new spot Hyperliquid ETF and Coinbase’s expanded role as Hyperliquid’s official USDC treasury deployer.

IREN closes $3 billion convertible notes deal amid AI infrastructure expansion

Bitcoin miner turned AI infrastructure operator secures one of the sector’s largest financings as investor demand drives multiple upsizes.

Stablecoin-powered neobank Fasset raises $51 million to expand across emerging markets

The Shariah-compliant digital bank is part of a growing wave of fintech startups building banking and payments services on top of blockchain and stablecoin...

Lido Selects Chainlink CCIP for Cross-Chain Expansion, Citing Security Principles

Lido's Network Expansion Committee chose Chainlink CCIP to bridge its staking token across chains, citing security lessons from $3 billion in cross-chain bridge exploits.Lido...

Crypto Rallies as Senate Committee Advances Market Structure Bill to Full Senate

Bitcoin rose 3% and Coinbase stock surged more than 8% as the Senate Banking Committee advanced the most consequential crypto market structure bill in...

Kraken Migrates to Chainlink CCIP for Wrapped Bitcoin and Future Wrapped Assets

Kraken is deprecating its existing cross-chain infrastructure and moving exclusively to Chainlink CCIP to secure Kraken Wrapped Bitcoin (kBTC) and all future wrapped assets.Kraken...

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Digital Chamber Sues Illinois Officials over 0.2% Crypto Tax

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South Korea’s Korbit exchange is now part of the $1 tillion Mirae Group family

Korbit, South Korea's first homegrown crypto exchange founded in...

Arbitrum-based AFX Trade drained of $24 million after bridge keys compromised

Another week, another multi-million-dollar hack in DeFi, and once...