Adrian Zmudzinski

Malta’s Finance Minister Clyde Caruana backed a government-run charity’s decision to reject a now $33 million Binance donation due to reputational concerns.

Prediction markets are rapidly going mainstream, and one expert argues that their simplicity could make them the first DeFi tool to achieve mass adoption.

French regulator ACPR is auditing Binance and other exchanges as Paris seeks a greater role in enforcing MiCA rules across Europe.

Babylon Labs says it has built a system using BitVM3 that allows native Bitcoin to be used as trustless collateral for borrowing on Ethereum, but its trustless design raises questions.

SEC Chair Paul Atkins said the US is a decade behind on crypto and that building a regulatory framework to attract innovation is “job one” for the agency.

Ripple has partnered with South Africa’s Absa Bank to provide digital asset custody services, expanding its institutional custody network across Africa.

Coinbase Ventures invested in Indian exchange CoinDCX at a $2.45 billion valuation as the US crypto company expands into India and the Middle East.

Researchers have uncovered a new Android vulnerability that allows malicious apps to reconstruct on-screen content, such as recovery phrases and two-factor authentication codes.

Binance’s $200,000 crypto donation to a Maltese cancer charity in 2018 has grown to $37 million but remains unclaimed due to a verification dispute.

Hyperliquid rolled out its HIP-3 upgrade, enabling anyone staking 500,000 HYPE tokens to deploy their own perpetual swap markets permissionlessly.

Hyperliquid CEO Jeff Yan and data platform CoinGlass warned that the liquidation reporting method used by centralized exchanges, such as Binance, may undercount actual liquidations.

Crypto betting platform Shuffle suffered a data breach via its CRM provider Fast Track, exposing most users’ data, founder Noa Dummett said.

HashKey Group, the operator of Hong Kong’s top licensed crypto exchange, has reportedly filed for an IPO in the city, aiming to raise up to $500 million.

ShapeShift reintroduced support for Zcash’s shielded transactions, marking its return to privacy-focused cryptocurrency after transitioning into a DEX aggregator.

Luxembourg’s sovereign wealth fund has allocated 1% of its $900 million portfolio, or about $9 million, into Bitcoin ETFs.

Hackers who breached Discord’s Zendesk support system are reportedly extorting the platform after stealing 2.1 million users’ age-verification photos.

Time2Build will pay developers to add Bitcoin Lightning Network features to existing open-source apps, rewarding only code accepted by project maintainers.

NYSE parent company, Intercontinental Exchange, has invested $2 billion in the crypto prediction market Polymarket at a $9 billion valuation.

Walmart-backed banking app OnePay reportedly plans to add Bitcoin and Ether trading and custody later this year as part of its push to become a WeChat-style US superapp.

The UK has again ordered Apple to open access to encrypted iCloud backups for British users, a move that could expose crypto wallet keys to hacking.

1inch co-founder Sergej Kunz said centralized crypto exchanges will gradually fade and serve only as frontends for decentralized finance.

UK authorities could keep $6.4 billion in seized Bitcoin profits instead of compensating fraud victims at the current value, sparking a debate over asset recovery ethics.

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said stablecoins could thrive in a system that separates money from credit, reducing the UK’s reliance on commercial banks.

Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm asks a US judge to dismiss his conviction, arguing that prosecutors failed to prove his intent to help bad actors.

Republic will tokenize equity in Hong Kong-based Web3 giant Animoca Brands on Solana, opening global investor access to the private company’s shares.

The Bitcoin community is split over Bitcoin Core v30’s plan to drop the 80-byte OP_RETURN limit, a dispute started by Nakamoto’s arbitrary data restrictions.

Polkadot community members are showing strong early support for a proposal to launch pUSD, a native algorithmic stablecoin fully backed by DOT tokens.

Swift is teaming up with Consensys and over 30 unspecified institutions to build a blockchain-based settlement system for 24/7 real-time cross-border payments.

US President Donald Trump’s son Eric told the New York Post that stablecoins could “save the US dollar,” and defended his family’s crypto ventures.

DBS Hong Kong CEO Sebastian Paredes warned that Hong Kong’s new stablecoin KYC and AML rules will largely block their use in onchain derivatives trading.