Solana’s Alpenglow Hits Second Testnet, 100ms Finality in Sight
Solana’s biggest consensus overhaul since launch has crossed a major hurdle. Alpenglow activated on testnet Sept. 24 and devnet Sept....
Bitcoin News
Bitget CEO Wants Thorchain to Block Hackers, but There’s a Catch
On Saturday, two days after Bitget was hacked, CEO Gracy Chen publicly asked Thorchain to cut off the hackers who...
Anthropic Loses Pentagon Fight Ahead of Anticipated $2 Trillion IPO
A federal appeals court upheld the Pentagon’s supply chain risk designation for Anthropic on Sept. 25, adding a legal setback...
Bitcoin ETFs Add $134M as 7-Day Inflow Streak Hits $2.98B
U.S. crypto ETFs finished Friday broadly higher, with bitcoin funds attracting $134.47 million and extending their inflow streak to seven...
Jack Dorsey’s Block Brings Lightning Network to x402
For decades, the internet ignored HTTP status code 402, a built-in checkout lane for the web that nobody used. Now,...
SEC Staff Clarifies How Crypto Promises Affect Securities Treatment
What a crypto issuer promises buyers can affect whether a non-security token is offered as part of an investment contract,...
Ethereum, Solana and Zcash Face Wild Year-End Price Predictions
Three cryptocurrencies, three very different bets and millions of dollars riding on what happens before New Year’s Day. Prediction markets...
Musk’s Grok Is Out-Trading ChatGPT 40 to 1 Among Coinbase AI Agents
Elon Musk’s Grok placed 59.5% of all AI agent trading volume on Coinbase in the week leading up to Sept....
Bitget Saga: Hacker Just Refueled on Binance as Withdrawals Reopen Monday
A wallet tied to Bitget’s $387.5 million hacker pulled about $1.23 million in ether out of Binance, two days before...
Kalshi Says XRP Price Can Hit $1.70 in September
Kalshi’s September XRP market is flashing a $1.70 forecast, yet the $1.70 contract trades at just 32 cents with XRP...
Bitcoin ATM Scam Takes $4,900 After Fake Jury Duty Threat
A Georgia woman deposited $4,900 into a Bitcoin ATM after being told she had missed jury duty and needed to...
‘Casino Secrets’ Hacker Beats Malta Regulator as Leak Site Goes Down
A Berlin court has ruled against the Malta Gaming Authority in its bid to stop German researcher Lilith Wittmann from...
Cybercriminal Directed $2.6M Crypto Heist From Prison: Prosecutors
A cybercriminal and organized crime boss masterminded a plot to steal over $2.6 million in cryptocurrency while incarcerated at Edinburgh’s...
Feds Charge Vietnamese National in $16M Pig Butchering Crypto Scheme
A Vietnamese national has been charged with laundering money from a sprawling “pig butchering” cryptocurrency scam that U.S. federal prosecutors...
Bullish Takes Aim at Wall Street’s Tokenized Stock Ownership Gap
Bullish, Equiniti, Alpaca, Apex Fintech Solutions and Drivewealth have formed the Issuer Sponsored Token Coalition to tackle an awkward problem,...
