Inquiries about whether pensions can be paid in crypto have become one of the most frequent non-standard requests received by the Social Fund of Russia, a state-run institution responsible for managing Russia’s public pension system.In 2025, the Social Fund’s call…

CryptoQuant founder Ki Young Ju has criticized X for suppressing crypto-related posts while failing to rein in a surge of automated spam, arguing that the platform is punishing legitimate users instead of addressing the underlying bot problem.In a Sunday post…

Tennessee’s sports betting regulator has ordered prediction market platforms Kalshi, Polymarket and Crypto.com to halt the offering of sports event contracts to residents of the state.In cease-and-desist letters dated Friday, the Tennessee Sports Wagering Council (SWC) accused all three platforms…

Jan3 founder Samson Mow anticipates billionaire investor and Tesla CEO Elon Musk will aggressively move into Bitcoin in 2026.It was one of five bold Bitcoin (BTC) predictions from Mow for 2026, coming off a year where several Bitcoin forecasts from…

Ethereum’s declining social media sentiment is mirroring levels similar to those seen before its 2025 price rally, which eventually pushed the asset back to its 2021 all-time highs, according to a crypto sentiment analyst.“Ethereum is actually way down, this would…

The Bitcoin (BTC) network mining difficulty, the relative computing challenge of adding a new block to the decentralized blockchain ledger, fell slightly to 146.4 trillion on Thursday, in the first difficulty adjustment of 2026. “The next Bitcoin difficulty adjustment is estimated…

The outage was the second major network disruption in 2025, with both incidents requiring a block reorganization that rolled back some activity.The team behind Starknet, an Ethereum layer‑2 (L2) scaling network, released a post-mortem report outlining the root cause of…

The Bitcoin (BTC) community is celebrating the anniversary of cypherpunk and Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney’s post on January 10, 2009, telling the world that he was running the Bitcoin node software“Running Bitcoin,” Finney said on X, formerly known as Twitter.…

Bitcoin whales began repeating a classic bull signal as they took BTC long positions off the table after a year of declining overall market exposure.Bitcoin (BTC) whales are “aggressively” reducing long exposure as a classic bull signal reappears.Key points:Bitfinex whales…

Asset manager Grayscale has taken an early step toward expanding its crypto investment lineup by forming new Delaware statutory trusts tied to potential products linked to BNB and HYPE, according to state records.According to Delaware records, the trusts were registered…

A crypto user known as The Smart Ape said he lost about $5,000 from a hot wallet after spending three days in a hotel, not because he clicked a phishing link, but because he made a series of “stupid mistakes,”…

Betterment has warned users to disregard a crypto promotion message that circulated on Friday, describing it as an unauthorized notification that was sent through a third-party system.The incident surfaced after multiple users reported receiving a message that appeared to promote…

Public companies and crypto-focused treasury firms are increasingly turning to staking as a source of passive income.Sharplink Gaming, the world’s second-largest corporate Ether (ETH) holder, generated 10,657 Ether ($33 million) in passive yield on its staking operations during the past…

In June 2013, the lens through which US citizens looked at their government was dramatically changed; it was now a PRISM. PRISM was the program that enabled the National Security Agency (NSA), with some help from the FBI, to obtain…

Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) started 2026 with sharp outflows, shedding a combined $681 million over the first full trading week of the year. According to data from SoSoValue, spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs recorded four consecutive days of net outflows…