A crypto attacker apparently took over a whale’s multisig wallet minutes after it was created 44 days ago, and has been draining and laundering funds in stages since.In a Thursday post on X, blockchain security firm PeckShield reported that a…

A small but growing group of Bitcoin advocates and crypto fund managers is urging the network to accelerate work on quantum-resistant signatures, arguing that the perception of a future “quantum threat” could become a market risk long before it becomes…

Major US cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is expanding payment options in Poland by integrating with one of the country’s most widely used mobile payment systems.Coinbase has partnered with European payment processor PPro to enable payments via Blik, a popular Polish mobile…

Transaction throughput on the Ethereum network is set to be boosted again next month, with developers aiming to increase Ethereum’s gas limit from 60 million to 80 million in January. Christine Kim, vice president of the research team at Galaxy…

Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded $457 million in net inflows on Wednesday, marking their strongest single-day intake in more than a month as institutional demand showed signs of re-acceleration.Fidelity’s Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC) led the inflows, recording the…

Coinbase’s year-end “System Update” conference on Wednesday saw the company announce a slew of new offerings as it branches out from its crypto exchange roots.In addition to introducing stock trading and prediction markets to its platform, Coinbase announced plans to…

Crypto treasury companies could be forced to sell as much as $15 billion in crypto if the Morgan Stanley Capital International Index (MSCI) goes ahead and excludes them from its indexes. BitcoinForCorporations, a group campaigning against MSCI’s proposal, projected outflows of…

The Ethereum blockchain needs to better explain its features to users in order to achieve true trustlessness, a challenge common across blockchain protocols, says its co-founder Vitalik Buterin.Trustlessness would see a protocol work without the oversight of developers, as it…

Bitcoin’s volatility appears to be diminishing, with its movements in 2025 more subdued than those of Nvidia (NVDA), which Bitwise says indicates its investor base is diversifying.Bitwise said on Wednesday that Bitcoin (BTC) will continue to be less volatile than…

More than 100 crypto exchange-traded products are likely to hit the market in 2026, but many of them will quickly be shuttered due to a lack of demand, an analyst says.Bloomberg analyst James Seyffart said on Wednesday that he agreed…

The US Federal Reserve has withdrawn a 2023 guidance that limited how Fed-supervised banks, including uninsured ones, engaged with crypto, as US regulators continue to pivot positively toward digital assets. The 2023 guidance required uninsured banks to follow the same rules…

Trump family-backed World Liberty Financial has proposed using 5% of the project’s WLFI token treasury to grow the supply of its stablecoin USD1. The proposal was posted to the World Liberty Financial governance forum on Wednesday, with the team highlighting the…

The Jito Foundation, the nonprofit organization facilitating the development of the Jito platform, said it will return to the United States, citing “clearer rules” for digital assets in the country.Jito is a maximal extractable value (MEV) infrastructure builder for the…

Today in crypto: Caroline Pham, the acting chair of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is set to leave the regulator to join MoonPay. Meanwhile, HashKey debuted on Hong Kong’s HKEX following a $206 million oversubscribed initial public offering, and…

Coinbase is launching stock trading and prediction markets as the crypto exchange looks beyond digital assets to chase its ambition of creating an “everything app.”Coinbase head of consumer and business products, Max Branzburg, announced at the company’s year-end conference that…