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Tron, Tether and Chainalysis Form a New Crypto-Crime Task Force—Replacing One That Just Collapsed
The Digital Crime Task Force aims to proactively trace illicit USDT on Tron and freeze funds before they move—just weeks after the trio’s near-identical T3 unit, built with rival firm TRM Labs, quietly collapsed.
Tether Gold Gets Clean KPMG Audit Confirming $2.2B in Physical Gold Backing
KPMG counted every gold bar behind XAUT, making it Tether's second stablecoin to complete a full audit by a Big Four accounting firm.
SoFi Brings Its Bank-Issued Stablecoin to Polygon’s Payments Stack
SoFiUSD, the first stablecoin from a U.S. national bank, is now live on Polygon Open Money Stack alongside Ethereum and Solana.
Are Alt-L1s over? Security, costs drive smaller chains to Ethereum
L1 blockchains Zilliqa, Gnosis and Ronin join the Ethereum ecosystem as the costs of going it alone grow, and the security and liquidity advantages become too hard to resist.
Ethereum researchers drop faster blocks to race toward quantum defenses in 2027
Ethlabs wants quantum-resistant accounts targeted for next year, even if wallet holders still have to switch signing methods themselves.
Ethlabs drops Hegotá slot proposal in push for 2027 quantum readiness
Ethlabs’ roadmap aims to help Ethereum withstand quantum attacks and give users a way to protect their accounts by 2027.
Tron and Tether bring in Chainalysis after T3 crime unit folds
The group will focus on illicit USDT activity on Tron and help law enforcement investigate suspicious transfers and freeze funds faster.
Tether's Tiny AI Agent Beats Models 2.5 Times Its Size at Controlling Your Phone
BotPsy packs 800 million parameters into an AI assistant designed to manage everyday tasks locally, outperforming larger rivals as Tether expands its push into decentralized artificial intelligence.
Bitmine posts $6.3B net loss for fiscal 2026 as Ether prices slide
Bitmine booked $6.2 billion in unrealized losses on digital assets. It held 6.07 million ETH on Sunday, or 4.97% of Ether’s supply.
Warren: What is White House doing to prevent a repeat of teleprompter's Trump bets?
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren argued the administration is not doing enough about staff insider trading, questioning whether CFTC enforcement action was sufficient.
Goldman, Citi and Global Banks Commit $270 Million to Challenge Crypto’s Stablecoin Giants
The funding, backing a U.S.-incorporated issuer codenamed “Project Faro,” covers five years of operations as traditional lenders move to challenge crypto-native giants Tether and Circle.
Morning Minute: Vitalik Recasts ETH as a Store of Value
It’s a big shift for Ethereum from the “ultrasound money” days. But can ETH compete as a store-of-value play?
Coinbase, Kalshi join lawsuit backing CFTC over US stock perp futures
Coinbase, Kalshi and four other companies backed the CFTC in a lawsuit over whether US exchanges can list perpetual futures tied to individual stocks.
Ex-employee sues Ethereum Foundation and Vitalik Buterin over firing
Kayleen Fulton alleges she was fired less than two weeks after disclosing a cancer diagnosis and helping organize a staff letter challenging a requirement to endorse the foundation’s new mandate.
Binance warns iOS flaw could expose crypto wallet keys
The exchange urged iPhone users to remove apps installed from untrusted sources, and it is unclear whether Apple’s latest iOS updates fix the flaw.
An 11-year-old Ethereum wallet moved $4.6 million and dodged a scam set up in minutes
Bots spotted a wallet from Ethereum’s 2015 launch the moment it stirred and planted lookalike addresses in its history, but the owner sent the money to the right place anyway.
PNC Bank tests turning USDC payments into dollar deposits
The pilot lets eligible corporate and institutional clients accept USDC on Ethereum, with each token converted to one US dollar before deposit.
Tom Lee’s Bitmine Adds $20M in Ethereum, Seizing on Vitalik’s 'ETH Is Money' Declaration
The firm’s stash reached 6.07 million ETH—4.97% of supply and 99% of the way to its “Alchemy of 5%” goal—as chairman Tom Lee called Vitalik Buterin’s “ETH is money” comments a “seismic shift.”
Vitalik Buterin Moves On From ‘Ultrasound Money,’ Says ETH’s Value Is Stability
The Ethereum co-founder says ETH's value comes from stability, not fee burns, citing its decentralization, censorship resistance and security.
Binance, Tether and Trump crypto firms face Senate records deadline
Sen. Richard Blumenthal asked four crypto firms to start sending records by Nov. 30 and warned of further action if they miss the Jan. 4 deadline.
Two rival Ethereum proposals aim to stop Glamsterdam breaking old contracts
The proposals aim to keep Ethereum’s planned gas changes from breaking existing contracts, using different approaches to what contracts see and what users pay.
AI Chip Stocks Bounce After Global Rout—But Is the Bubble Starting to Burst?
A Friday rebound offered relief after a historic selloff. The question now is whether politics and mounting debt could turn an AI correction into something much worse.
What Democrats’ US midterm sweep means for the CLARITY Act
The CLARITY Act faces a new test as Democrats control Congress, raising questions over consumer protections, ethics and what the crypto industry may have to concede.
Ethereum devs won’t fork Glamsterdam on Hoodi until smart contract risks resolved
Ethereum developers are investigating concerns tied to eight smart contract invariants tied to Glamsterdam’s EIP-8037 and EIP-8038.
Ethereum devs won’t fork Glamsterdam on Hoodi until smart contract risks are resolved
Ethereum developers are investigating concerns tied to eight smart contract invariants tied to Glamsterdam’s EIP-8037 and EIP-8038.
Europe’s largest asset manager Amundi tokenizes equity index fund on Ethereum
The new share class offers blockchain-based exposure to an index tracking 600 companies across European markets.
Trump’s memecoin ventures derailed CLARITY Act, Scaramucci says
The SkyBridge founder said disputes over ethics restrictions also stalled negotiations, with both sides responsible for the setback.
Arkansas Sues Kalshi, Joining a Growing List of States Targeting Prediction Markets
Attorney General Tim Griffin said betting on "whether the Razorbacks win or lose" is gambling, and wants restitution, penalties and taxes.
Ethereum dev targets 2028 for quantum resistance, a year early
Ethereum researcher Justin Drake said it is their “hope” that Ethereum will achieve its post-quantum and post-AI transition by December 2028.
Binance's $6.3 billion hack began with a fake job interview, and a campaign 'built over many months'
North Korea-linked attackers spent months compromising Binance employees and internal systems before exploiting its hot-wallet signing infrastructure through Ethereum's EIP-7702 mechanism.
Binance's $6.3 billion hack began with a fake job interview, exchange says
North Korea-linked attackers spent months compromising Binance employees and internal systems before exploiting its hot-wallet signing infrastructure through Ethereum's EIP-7702 mechanism.
Ethereum Privacy Network Aztec Rolls Out Major Security and Speed Upgrade
The “Tierra” upgrade resolves a critical bug from the prior version, adds formal verification, and an AI-powered testing harness.
ETHGas wants to bring Wall Street to public Ethereum by selling advance block reservations
ETHGas wants to bring Wall Street to public Ethereum by selling advance block reservations
EU entity suspected of losing $106 million from crypto exchange accounts, ZachXBT says
The unidentified attacker moved funds through ether, instant exchanges and Monero, but the victim and affected exchanges remain unknown.
Bitmine Buys More Ethereum as Tom Lee Calls the Binance Hack Bullish
The chairman laid out six reasons the market’s “muted” 4% ETH drop after the record Binance theft shows crypto is “increasingly resilient,” as the firm’s stash neared its 5% supply goal.
Why stealing billions from a crypto exchange can be harder to stop than a bank theft
The $6.3 billion Binance breach has revived a debate over whether crypto exchanges are less secure than banks or simply harder to protect once hackers get inside.
Sherrod Brown's Ohio edge threatens a rough go for crypto next year
The industry's $63 million question revolves around whether its political adversary in Ohio rides the Trump backlash back into the Senate.
The $6.3 billion Binance hack paradox: Centralization made the hack possible, but also saved $3 billion
The Binance hack has revived debates about whether decentralization is the digital asset industry’s greatest security advantage or its biggest point of weakness.
Binance hackers raced to move billions before it could be frozen
Attackers raced to convert stolen stablecoins into crypto that issuers could not freeze as industry players like Tether and Circle moved to immobilize billions of dollars in assets.
Experts divided over Binance hack asset freezes, warn recovery is another matter
Tether, Circle and others moved within hours to block billions in stolen crypto, but legal experts question whether smaller victims would get the same protection.
What is EIP-7702? The Ethereum Upgrade Behind the $6.4B Binance Hack
EIP-7702 lets ordinary Ethereum wallets run smart contract code, enabling batched and sponsored transactions. Here's how it works.
Here’s how an Ethereum upgrade helped drain part of Binance’s $6 billion loss
On Ethereum, the attacker used a 2025 upgrade built to make ordinary wallets smarter, armed with 50 signatures from Binance's own wallet.
EIP-7702 didn’t cause Binance hack, but may have amplified losses
Security experts say attackers could have drained Binance’s wallets without EIP-7702, but the Ethereum upgrade may have helped bypass withdrawal safeguards.
Binance hack drained wallets backing customer assets, reserve data shows
Binance’s own reserve data lists the drained wallets as backing customer balances, leaving its ether backing an estimated 6% short until the exchange replaces what was stolen.
Binance Hacker Hunts for Exit Ramps as DeFi Exchanges Pause Markets
Etherscan records show wallets tied to the suspected Binance hack swapping freezable stablecoins for Ethereum on decentralized exchanges.
Live Updates: Binance hit by largest crypto hack in history
Follow live updates as Binance investigates a multibillion-dollar hack and Tether and Circle freeze more than $2.36 billion in stablecoins.
Binance Drained of $5.5 Billion in Suspected Hack, Tether and Circle Freeze $1.8 Billion
An on-chain tally puts the suspected Binance drain at $5.57 billion across three blockchains, as Tether and Circle froze $1.8 billion.
Binance hacked for over $5.8B in massive crypto exploit
Binance is investigating a multibillion-dollar security breach involving its Ethereum wallets, with Tether and Circle freezing more than $2.36 billion in stablecoins.
Security failure at Indian certificate firm bites Ethereum as developers rush out fixes
A key blunder at Indian certificate issuer eMudhra left some Teku and Besu setups trusting forged certificates. Default mainnet nodes weren’t exposed.
Your fridge could one day stake Ether, launch memecoins: CFTC chair
CFTC chair Mike Selig says autonomous AI agents could challenge financial rules built around human traders, and regulators need to adapt.