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The SEC has postponed its planned framework for trading tokenized stocks after pressure from traditional exchanges. The decision triggered a sharp drop in the crypto market.
North Korean state-sponsored hackers dominate crypto crime in 2026 and have stolen six billion dollars since 2017. The $285 million Drift attack illustrates a new and more dangerous attack strategy.
A federal judge has rejected Sam Bankman-Fried's petition for a new trial, characterizing it as an attempt to repair his reputation. The appeal to the Second Circuit is still ongoing.
New York Attorney General Letitia James has sued crypto exchanges Coinbase and Gemini, alleging their prediction markets constitute illegal gambling. The state is demanding over $3.4 billion in fines and disgorgement of profits.
The SEC has approved a historic rule change that scraps the 25-year-old $25,000 minimum requirement for frequent day trading — a move that could send a wave of small investors into the crypto market.
During a dramatic parliamentary debate in Poland, Prime Minister Donald Tusk accused crypto exchange Zondacrypto of having ties to the Russian mafia and intelligence services, and of lobbying against the government's regulatory legislation. On the same day, parliament voted down an attempt to override the president's veto against the country's MiCA legislation.
The law firm Gibbs Mura has filed a class-action lawsuit against Circle, alleging that the stablecoin issuer failed to freeze stolen USDC in the aftermath of the massive Drift Protocol hack.
A six-month security program supported by the Ethereum Foundation has identified approximately 100 suspected North Korean IT workers hidden across 53 different Web3 projects worldwide.
Crypto exchange Kraken reveals that criminal actors are attempting to extort the company following two separate security incidents related to internal support access and customer data exposure.
Tron founder Justin Sun publicly attacks World Liberty Financial after the Trump family's crypto project borrowed $75 million against its own tokens on a protocol with obvious conflicts of interest.
The U.S. financial regulator SEC has published a self-critical review acknowledging that previous crypto enforcement was misguided. Seven cases are now being dropped, and the course is significantly reversed.
The US legislative process for the crypto market is approaching a decisive point. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong believes it's time for clear rules to be established – but opposition in the Senate remains significant.
Hong Kong's monetary authority HKMA has awarded its first two stablecoin licenses to banking giants HSBC and Standard Chartered — selected from a total of 36 applicants.
The Trump administration is launching a coordinated multi-agency campaign to get the Senate to pass the CLARITY Act — legislation intended to provide the crypto industry with a clear regulatory framework in the U.S.
The Senate has barely three weeks to process the CLARITY Act — the bill that could provide the crypto market with the regulatory clarity it has awaited for years, and which could be particularly significant for XRP.
Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic points to North Korea as the highly probable actor behind the massive attack on the Solana-based Drift Protocol on April 1, 2026 — the largest DeFi hack so far this year.
North Korean intelligence agents infiltrated the DeFi protocol Drift over six months, met contributors face-to-face, and waited before siphoning off over $270 million.
On-chain investigator ZachXBT claims Circle failed to freeze over $420 million in USDC linked to hacks and scams since 2022 — and suggests the real figure could be far higher.
Renowned on-chain investigator ZachXBT claims that USDC issuer Circle has repeatedly failed to freeze stolen funds since 2022 — at a total cost of over $420 million to the crypto ecosystem.
The U.S. commodity regulator CFTC has sued Illinois, Arizona, and Connecticut to prevent them from enforcing state gambling laws against federally regulated prediction markets. The conflict is escalating rapidly and could end up in the Supreme Court.
The SIREN token plummeted 85 percent in a single trading day after its launch on Binance, and analysts are now sharply criticizing the exchange for possible market manipulation.
A new bill in the US Congress aims to introduce the wash sale rule for cryptocurrencies while exempting regulated stablecoins from ongoing taxation.
The conviction of a crypto developer has accelerated the debate in Washington on how decentralized finance should be regulated. Now, U.S. senators are defending the CLARITY Act as the most important tool to protect developers from criminalization.
Senator Elizabeth Warren asks the Commerce Department to account for security threats from Chinese mining hardware — and requests documentation of contacts between Bitmain and the Trump family's crypto business.
After over ten years of criticism and regulatory pressure, Tether has finally engaged auditing giant KPMG to conduct the company's very first full, independent financial audit. PwC is assisting with preparing internal systems.
Stablecoin giant Tether engages a Big Four auditing firm for the first time for a full, independent audit of its USDT reserves – a strategic move closely linked to planned expansion in the American market.
For the first time, Tether's colossal USDT reserves will be scrutinized by one of the world's four largest auditing firms — a historic shift from the company's previous, limited attestations.
After years of criticism and multi-million dollar fines, stablecoin giant Tether has formally engaged one of the world's four largest auditing firms for a complete, independent financial audit of its USDT reserves.
Negotiations on the U.S. CLARITY Act are nearing a decisive point, but bank lobbyists and the crypto industry remain deeply divided over stablecoin interest rates — and billions in bank deposits could be at stake.
For the first time, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has given a crypto wallet the green light to offer access to regulated derivatives – without requiring broker registration.
A new joint interpretive statement from the SEC and CFTC has reportedly cleared regulatory uncertainty for XRP, Ethereum, and a host of other crypto assets – and according to one analyst, it may have unlocked enormous amounts of capital.
Nasdaq has received the green light from the SEC to move stocks onto the blockchain – but industry insiders warn that the old intermediaries are retained, and Wall Street is setting the terms.
The SEC has given Nasdaq the green light to test trading of tokenized shares and ETFs through a controlled pilot program. The approval is part of a broader regulatory shift in the US.
In a landmark interpretation of securities law, the SEC and CFTC have classified a range of leading cryptocurrencies as digital commodities. The decision puts an end to one of the industry's longest regulatory disputes — for now.
Payment giant Mastercard has entered into an agreement to acquire the British stablecoin infrastructure platform BVNK for up to $1.8 billion – one of the largest acquisitions in the crypto industry so far in 2026.
A federal appeals court this week concluded Custodia's five-year fight for a Fed master account with a 7–3 vote against the bank — just days after Kraken was granted similar access as the first crypto firm ever.
The two most powerful financial regulators in the US have signed a cooperation agreement to harmonize crypto regulation — promising a new era for the industry after years of regulatory chaos.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is requesting a new trial against Roman Storm after the jury in 2025 failed to reach a consensus on the most serious charges. A new round could give Storm up to 40 years in prison.
The U.S. Department of Justice seeks to resume the trial against Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm in October, even as the Treasury Department now acknowledges that crypto mixers can have legitimate uses.
A group of 29 U.S. lawmakers is now pushing for a permanent ban on a government-issued digital dollar, calling a CBDC “inherently anti-American.” The battle over the future of the digital dollar is escalating on Capitol Hill.
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