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Japan’s FSA plans to reclassify crypto as financial products, enforce new disclosure and insider trading rules, and cut the crypto tax rate from 55% to a flat 20%.
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Latest News on Blockchain
Blockchains are the critical infrastructure underlying cryptocurrencies. The common feature of these distributed ledgers is the sequential updating of a cryptographically secure, verifiable transaction record among a network of peers all operating under a certain set of rules enforced through the software itself. This record is owned and operated in common by anyone anywhere.
While research in shared ledger technology goes back decades, the arrival of the Bitcoin blockchain introduced the first distributed ledger technology that was thoroughly decentralized and resistant to censorship, seizure and collusion.
Blockchain technology, in its various manifestations including the Ethereum blockchain and others, is ultimately a global consensus system — i.e., it allows people to coordinate and cooperate around a neutral source of information without trusting each other or a central administrator. The use cases are wide-ranging, from finance and energy trading to supply chain management.
At Cointelegraph, we are chronicling the evolving blockchain industry. Is it revolutionary or overhyped? Or both? Will it become the solution to securing trust in finance and global trade? What will be the rate of blockchain transactions in the coming years?
Stay tuned to find out.
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Crypto treasury companies and blockchain technology are creating alternative pathways to fund early-stage scientific and medical research.
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Explore how Satoshi’s untouched 1 million BTC could become crypto’s biggest quantum target, and what a real quantum breakthrough means for early wallets.
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Bitcoin drops to a six-month low as spot ETF outflows resume despite the US shutdown ending, signaling weak demand and renewed pressure on crypto markets.
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Legal risk, cost and low investor confidence are keeping founders from launching tokens. A new token standard aims to create a path forward for tokenizing startups.
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The “50-year Bitcoin” joke reveals crypto’s split tempo, where the base layer ossifies while L2s and edge systems innovate rapidly.
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Square’s new Bitcoin payments may redefine how merchants accept money online with faster settlement, lower costs and greater financial control.
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Canary Capital’s XRP ETF outperformed all 900 ETF launches of 2025, inspiring a bullish rotation among the industry’s most successful traders, who are now betting on XRP’s price increasing.
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Pig-butchering scams are expanding into a transnational crime model, blending trafficking and crypto laundering on a massive scale.
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Bitcoin ETFs saw $866 million in outflows as the US shutdown ended, pushing BTC to a six-month low and raising concerns over market structure and investor demand.
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During a Cointelegraph AMA, founders explained how THORWallet unifies multi-chain DeFi without bridges or wrapping, and how the newly introduced TITN token supports real usage through fee discounts and USDC rewards.
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Acting FDIC Chair Travis Hill said the agency is also working on a regime for stablecoin issuance and expects to issue a proposal for an application process by the end of year.
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A malicious “Safery: Ethereum Wallet” extension is currently live on the Chrome Web Store, using a crafty backdoor to exfiltrate seed phrases. Here's how it works.
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Analysts at Glassnode argue that the recent wave of Bitcoin whale sales is a typical part of a late-stage crypto cycle when older hands take profits.
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The British pound needs digital rails to remain competitive with the dollar and euro as the world shifts to onchain and internet-native finance.
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