Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
South Korean prosecutors have arrested and indicted five suspects in what authorities say is the country’s first criminal case targeting a rug pull on a decentralized exchange, with the alleged scheme leaving 256 investors with approximately $600,000...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Falcon Finance has introduced fUSD, a fully reserved stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital Bank and designed for institutional settlement, collateral, and treasury use. The product includes a rewards structure targeting about 3% annually for qualify...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
A senior CIA official with top-secret clearance was arrested May 19, 2026, after FBI agents pulled 303 one-kilogram gold bars, roughly $2 million in cash, and about 35 luxury watches, many of them Rolexes, from his Fairfax County, Virginia, home. Sen...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Crypto exchanges face new U.K. enforcement pressure after Britain targeted Russia-linked sanctions-evasion networks using digital assets. The package names 18 exchanges, banks, payment providers, corporate entities, and individuals tied to crypto and...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
BTC spot volume has plunged across major exchanges, reviving comparisons with the late-stage bear market conditions that preceded the 2023 recovery. Binance activity fell from $198.6 billion to $36.4 billion, part of a broad market slowdown. Volume C...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Trump vowed to cement a durable U.S. crypto framework, saying his administration will protect digital asset markets from future political reversals. He also pledged that his administration would “never let crypto down,” tying bitcoin, exchanges, and...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Grayscale Research cast Hyperliquid as a standout DeFi contender with potential to scale into a major on-chain financial services platform. Its report points to trading growth, exchange-style network effects, and token mechanics linked directly to pl...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Coinbase is expanding fiat access for institutional crypto clients through Standard Chartered, adding multi-currency funding access across six major currencies. The setup targets deposits, withdrawals, settlement, and more efficient funding for globa...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
With bitcoin down roughly 2.8% over the past seven days and the price touching a weekly low of $74,530 per coin, sleeping bitcoin wallets continue to awaken and relocate long-held funds. At block height 951160, 103.96 BTC valued at $7.8 million at cu...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Cross-border payments platform Nium and stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Group Inc. have launched a partnership to connect onchain digital dollar settlement with traditional last-mile fiat payouts. Circle Internet Group Connects USDC Settlement with...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Polymarket, one of the world’s largest prediction market platforms, is tightening its grip on anonymous access by pushing traders to complete identity verification, according to a May 27, 2026, report from The Information. Polymarket Cracks Down on N...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Kraken launched Bitcoin Vault on Wednesday, giving long-term bitcoin holders a way to earn up to 2.5% annual percentage yield on idle BTC without selling or giving up price exposure. Kraken Bitcoin Vault Goes Live: BTC Holders Can Now Earn Yield The...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Bitcoin trended downward on Wednesday, dropping beneath the $75,000 threshold to trade at $74,570 at the time of writing. This slide erased nearly 3% of its weekly value and dragged its market capitalization back below $1.5 trillion. Onchain Metrics...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Onchain data has flagged a smart money whale running heavily leveraged short positions on bitcoin and ether simultaneously with long positions on traditional financial (TradFi) market indexes through Hyperliquid. Long TradFi, Short Crypto: The Trade...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Robinhood launched a beta product on Wednesday that lets users connect third-party artificial intelligence (AI) agents to dedicated brokerage accounts for autonomous stock trading. Robinhood AI Trading Beta Lets Users Deploy ChatGPT and Claude in San...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Mastercard Transaction Services (U.S.) LLC received a Virtual Currency License from the New York State Department of Financial Services on Wednesday, giving the global payments company formal standing to operate digital asset services in one of the m...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
After years of warning that AI would wipe out entry-level white-collar roles, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman now says he was wrong on the near-term jobs impact. Recent studies from Yale Budget Lab, Brookings, and Anthropic find limited labor effects so far, e...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Streamex Corp. and Solana-based decentralized exchange ( DEX) platform Orca launched 24/7 secondary liquidity infrastructure for tokenized securities on Wednesday, with GLDY, a gold-backed, yield-bearing token, as the first asset to trade on the syst...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Crypto ETF flows were mixed on Tuesday, May 26, with bitcoin and ether ETFs losing a combined $368.75 million as both ETFs extended their outflow streaks. Altcoin products softened the blow, led by $20.45 million into HYPE ETFs and $1.55 million into...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
SoFi Technologies has made SoFiUSD available to its nearly 15 million members, becoming the first U.S. national bank to offer a bank-issued stablecoin directly inside a banking application. SoFi Opens SoFiUSD to 15 Million Users, Targets Cross-Border...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has endorsed a Kohaku wallet feature that automatically assigns users a unique blockchain address for every decentralized application ( dapp) they interact with, calling per- dapp address isolation “a really import...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Two spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tracking Hyperliquid’s HYPE token have set a new benchmark for altcoin fund debuts in the U.S., absorbing 1.04% of the token’s total market capitalization in their first 10 trading days, while a single wallet sim...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
Sharplink and Forward Industries are set to enter the Russell 2000 and Russell 3000 indexes on June 29. The additions could raise institutional visibility for two public companies built around large ethereum and solana treasury strategies. Crypto Tre...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
The native token of the Rain prediction markets protocol (RAIN) surged 44% to an all-time high of $0.01195, pushing its market capitalization to $7.2 billion and placing it in the top 20 digital assets. Rain Token Hits All-Time High The native token...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 weeks ago
U.S. President Donald Trump has appointed former Attorney General Pam Bondi to the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), a high-level artificial intelligence (AI) advisory body co-chaired by crypto advocate and former Wh...
