Criminals stole more than $30 million through physical attacks on crypto holders in the first half of this year, putting the year on pace to surpass the record $58 million stolen in 2025.In a Chainalysis report released Thursday, the blockchain…

About 64 Bitcoin, worth $4.17 million, and 200 Ether, worth $380,000, linked to the recent Coldcard exploit were sent to cryptocurrency mixing protocols, according to blockchain security platform CertiK. The Bitcoin transfer was from address bc1q0 to crypto mixing protocol Wasabi…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law creating a regulated framework for cryptocurrency markets in Russia.Putin signed bill No. 1194918-8, titled “On Digital Currencies and Digital Rights,” into law on Tuesday, according to official records from the State Duma,…

Sam Blackshear, the co-founder and chief technology officer of Mysten Labs, has announced he will be stepping down to join Anthropic to work on defensive security research.Blackshear, along with four former Meta executives, founded Mysten Labs — the creator of…

Meta has become the latest major AI company to disclose that one of its models hacked another company’s systems during testing, following similar incidents involving Anthropic and OpenAI. The model involved Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1, which launched in July, according to…

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said she is prepared to support higher interest rates if US inflation fails to come down, a change that can pressure crypto and other high-risk investments. Cook was speaking at a luncheon hosted by the…

ElizaOS fell 19% over 24 hours to an all-time low after Eliza Labs founder Shaw Walters said the token was “dead” and that the Eliza Foundation was winding down. CoinGecko data showed the token trading at $0.000285 at the time of…

Boerse Stuttgart Digital and institutional crypto trading firm Tradias have completed their merger after clearing the required ownership control procedure, creating a combined digital asset infrastructure unit with about 300 employees.The transaction was first announced in February, when the companies…

Crypto analytics platform DefiLlama has integrated Forgd’s market-maker leaderboard, giving users access to data on spreads, market depth, trading volume and uptime. In an announcement sent to Cointelegraph, Forgd said that the dashboard ranks crypto market makers using standardized measures of…

BlackRock will offer tokenized versions of select European money market funds using JPMorgan’s blockchain infrastructure. According to a Tuesday Bloomberg report, the offering will include pound sterling, euro and US dollar share classes from BlackRock’s Institutional Cash Series, which collectively manage…

Stablecoin issuer Circle reported $701 million in revenue for the second quarter of fiscal year 2026 on Wednesday, narrowly missing preliminary Wall Street estimates.Circle reported $701 million in total revenue and reserve income, up 7% year-over-year, according to its announcement.…

Payment processor Mastercard and stablecoin orchestration network Borderless will run a new pilot project to explore how Mastercard’s Crypto Credential standards-based framework can bring greater trust to cross-border stablecoin payments.The pilot will test how Mastercard’s framework can address the challenge…

The window for the US Congress to pass a comprehensive market structure bill on cryptocurrencies is closing, with the Senate set to go on recess in a matter of days, and lawmakers still have not announced clear plans to vote…

Galaxy Digital reported an $85 million net loss for the second quarter of 2026 as cryptocurrency valuations declined in the period.That resulted in a $0.09 loss per share posted on Wednesday which Galaxy attributed to the depreciation of digital asset…

Western Union has partnered with stablecoin infrastructure provider Rain to launch Stablecard, a digital wallet and Visa-branded card that enables users to hold and spend a US dollar-backed stablecoin, marking one of the company’s biggest moves into blockchain-based payments.On Wednesday,…