Missouri trio charged over alleged Bitcoin kidnapping plot
The defendants allegedly traveled from Missouri to Connecticut to kidnap a Bitcoin holder and force…
Month: August 2026
Cloudflare introduces wallets for AI agents, plans stablecoin payments
Cloudflare introduced programmable Wallets for AI agents and said payment features using stablecoins will launch…
Bybit’s EU payments arm secures Austrian e-money license
Bybit’s Austrian payments subsidiary gained regulatory approval to develop card, merchant, open-banking and person-to-person payment…
Dutch Court Hears Crypto Dispute Kidnapping Case
Dutch prosecutors charged three men in connection with a May 1 incident in Nieuw-Vennep involving…
Apple Pulls Telegram After Illegal Content Appears in Public Group
Apple briefly removed Telegram from the App Store after prohibited content surfaced in a public…
Senators Demand SEC Probe Into Trump Memecoin After $3.8B Losses
Two U.S. senators urged regulators to investigate $TRUMP after nearly one million investors reportedly lost…
Ripple Pushes Full XRPL Stack as Tokenized Assets Expand
Ripple is building issuance, stablecoin, trading, custody, and credit infrastructure as financial institutions adopt tokenized…
Ethereum researchers want to rein in staking, critics say it could backfire
EIP-8363 is a newly published draft proposal that would cut net consensus-layer rewards as the…
Dragonfly’s Haseeb Qureshi Says $2 AI Audit Could Have Caught Coldcard Flaw
Dragonfly’s Haseeb Qureshi says the Coldcard vulnerability shows how artificial intelligence (AI) is rewriting cybersecurity…
US Senators Target Wildfire Bets in New CFTC Rule Fight
Nine U.S. senators are asking the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to prohibit contracts tied to…
BTC Hits $64,360, but Bitfinex Warns of Downside Risks
Bitcoin posted a 0.8% gain, trading between $63,300 and a session high of $64,360, while…
Bybit Expands European Footprint With Austrian EMI License
Austria’s Financial Market Authority (FMA) has granted Bybit a license enabling it to build future…
US, UK reaffirm support for stablecoins, tokenization in joint financial regulation talks
In a July 8 meeting, US and UK regulators highlighted the implementation of the GENIUS…
BNY to offer institutional crypto staking through Galaxy partnership
The custody giant is expanding beyond safekeeping by adding staking services, allowing eligible institutional clients…
Bitcoin coils at $64K as Hormuz reopening timeline sends S&P 500 to $70T record
Bitcoin built on $64,000 as hopes of the Strait of Hormuz reopening to oil traffic…