Botanix Pulls Plug on Bitcoin L2 After 4 Years as Fee Income Falls Short
Key TakeawaysBitcoin L2 network Botanix is winding down all operations after a 4-year effort to build on the blockchain.The team...
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G7 Flags North Korean Cybercrime After $2B Stolen in 2025
Group of Seven (G7) leaders have renewed their call for joint action against North Korean cryptocurrency thefts and cybercrime.In a...
2 Incorporated AI Agents Sign First Legal Deal That Executes Itself on Ethereum
Key Takeaways: Clawbank and Shodai executed the first AI-to-AI Ricardian contract, binding legal prose to Ethereum code. Shodai’s smart contract...
Zcash Fixes Privacy Pool Bug After Explorer Confusion
Zcash developers temporarily suspended Orchard transactions after discovering a critical vulnerability in the privacy-focused blockchain’s latest shielded pool, then restored...
MoneyGram Launches MGUSD Stablecoin for Remittance Network
MoneyGram launched MGUSD, a US dollar stablecoin on Stellar, as the remittance company deepens its push into blockchain-based cross-border payments.The...
Sui Addresses Three Network Outages With Major Upgrade
The Sui Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind the Sui Network, says it has made a “major upgrade” to address issues...
Vietnam Proposes Allowing SMEs to Use Digital Assets as Loan Collateral
Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance has proposed letting small and medium-sized enterprises use digital assets, virtual assets and intellectual property as...
NYSE Parent ICE Seeks ‘Level Playing Field’ for 24/7 Onchain Perps
Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), is urging regulators to allow regulated exchanges to...
Sui Network Goes Down for Second Day in a Row
The Sui layer-1 blockchain experienced another disruption on Friday, causing a “network stall” that temporarily halted block production, before normal...
BIS Project Agorá Shows Tokenized Payments Cut Settlement Risk
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) released a report Wednesday on Project Agorá, an experimental prototype for cross-border wholesale payment.The...
Crypto-Linked Payment Card Volume Surges 230% Since May 2025
Monthly payment volume on crypto-linked debit and credit cards is up about 230% over last year, amid a proliferation of...
Iran Central Bank’s OFAC-Sanctioned Tron Wallets Mapped by Arkham
Blockchain analytics platform Arkham has published what it says is a public, onchain map of crypto wallets attributed to Iran’s...
SEC Exemption Tokenized Stock Trading: Report
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly making an “innovation exemption” for blockchain-based tokenized trading of public companies, even...
Pump.fun Drives Over a Third of Solana’s Q1 Revenue Despite Memecoin Slowdown
Pump.fun remained Solana’s largest revenue generator in the first quarter of 2026, pulling in $124.7 million, more than a third...
Binance Denies WSJ Report Alleging $850M in Iran-Linked Crypto Transactions
Binance CEO Richard Teng has pushed back against a new Wall Street Journal investigation claiming the exchange processed $850 million...
Boerse Stuttgart, Societe Generale, flatexDEGIRO Join Forces for EU Blockchain Securities Settlement
Boerse Stuttgart Group’s tokenized securities settlement platform Seturion has partnered with Societe Generale, its crypto subsidiary SG-Forge and online broker...
Kraken Parent Teams With Franklin Templeton to Bring Managed Funds Onchain
Key TakeawaysPayward and Franklin Templeton partnered on May 12, 2026, to build tokenized yield and equity products onchain.Kraken’s xStocks framework,...
Bankr Disables Transactions After Hacker Accessed 14 Crypto Wallets
AI-powered crypto trading assistant Bankr said it disabled transactions after identifying an attacker who gained access to at least 14...
Elliptic Raises $120 Million in Series D Led by One Peak and Nasdaq
Key TakeawaysElliptic secured $120 million on May 12, 2026, boosting its valuation to $670 million for onchain analytics.Nasdaq Ventures and...
SBI, Rakuten, Nomura Preparing to Launch Crypto Investment Trusts in Japan
Japan’s major brokerages are preparing to bring crypto investment trusts to retail investors, with SBI Securities and Rakuten Securities already...
Casper Network Plans Quantum-Safe Keys in 2027 to Protect Tokenized Assets
Key TakeawaysCasper Association launched its Manifest on May 12 to scale the $16 trillion real-world asset market.The roadmap integrates EVM...
Kraken Switches from LayerZero to Chainlink after Kelp DAO Hack
Crypto exchange Kraken announced Thursday that it had changed its cross-chain provider from LayerZero to Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol, joining...
