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Block joins x402 Foundation and adds Bitcoin Lightning to the AI-agent payment standard
Block joined the x402 Foundation and contributed a Bitcoin Lightning payment spec, adding a bitcoin option to the open s...
Fed Proposes Capital Charges and Bank Approval Rules for Stablecoins
The Federal Reserve proposal would generally give covered stablecoin issuers two business days to redeem tokens, with ba...
Three DeFi Exploits Drain More Than $11 Million in One Day
Payy Network, Duelbits and Meter.io lost a combined $11 million in one day, with two bridge attacks and one suspected ke...
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[[alloc] init] Proposes Shielded Bitcoin for Private Payments Without a Soft Fork
[[alloc] init] researchers released a proposal called Shielded Bitcoin for private Bitcoin transactions without changing...
Circle launches StableFX, a 24/7 stablecoin FX engine on Arc
Circle has launched StableFX on its Arc blockchain, letting screened businesses trade and settle stablecoin currency pai...
Bitcoin Options Worth $15 Billion Set to Expire Friday as Call Bets Cluster Near $100,000
About $15 billion in bitcoin options expires Friday, with more bets on higher prices and the largest call clusters at $8...
Galaxy Digital adds $100 million of Sky's sUSDS token and accepts it as loan collateral
Galaxy Digital added $100 million of Sky's sUSDS token to its treasury and approved it as loan collateral. Client borrow...
Bitwise Report: Institutions Kept Their Bitcoin Through the Crash and Some Bought More
Bitwise says 15 major institutions held their crypto through the 2025–2026 sell-off, with several buying more. Bitcoin w...
Brooklyn man sentenced to up to 12 years for $16M Coinbase crypto scheme
Ronald Spektor, 23, of Brooklyn, was sentenced to up to 12 years for stealing about $16 million in crypto from Coinbase...
TRON passes $30 trillion in lifetime volume as USDT supply tops $94 billion
TRON DAO says the network passed $30 trillion in lifetime transaction volume, with over $94 billion of USDT on it and co...
Saifedean Ammous: shrinking Bitcoin drawdowns are the signal to watch
Saifedean Ammous says falling Bitcoin volatility is its most bullish signal right now, as bear-market drawdowns narrow t...
Lightning Labs discloses bug that marked canceled Bitcoin invoices as paid
Lightning Labs says older Lightning Terminal versions could mark canceled Bitcoin invoices as paid, and the fixes shippe...