Kraken has quietly closed a long-standing governance gap in digital asset markets by granting xStocks token holders real shareholder voting rights through a Jersey-law custody mechanism and on-chain vote aggregation.
SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci envisions a future where mainstream crypto adoption becomes functionally invisible, operating as underlying settlement rails behind familiar apps, credit cards, and digital wallets.
Driven primarily by a major firmware vulnerability in Coldcard hardware wallets, total cryptocurrency losses from hacks and exploits surged to $247.4 million in July 2026, tripling figures from the previous month.
Non-custodial Web3 wallet provider MetaMask has launched Agent Wallet, a specialized infrastructure enabling AI agents to autonomously manage on-chain transactions within strict user-defined security guardrails and spending limits.
Crypto market maker Wintermute has formally entered regulated US financial markets after its New York affiliate, Wintermute USA LLC, secured broker-dealer registration with the SEC and FINRA membership.
Senate Republican leadership has opted to delay a floor vote on the CLARITY Act until September, leaving critical digital asset market structure legislation unresolved as Congress heads into its summer recess.
Uniswap Labs has officially launched Pools.trade on Robinhood Chain, expanding its footprint from secondary trading to primary token creation through automated Uniswap v4 liquidity pools.
Following a catastrophic hardware wallet exploit affecting Coldcard devices, a volunteer security coalition known as the Bitcoin Red Team executed a massive AI-assisted security audit across 390 open-source Bitcoin repositories.
US-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs extended their positive momentum with a $244.4 million daily inflow on Wednesday, bringing their three-session total to $626 million despite broader market sentiment remaining in extreme fear.
Circle Internet Group has announced a heavyweight cohort of founding validators, including BlackRock, DTCC, Visa, and Mastercard, to secure Arc, an open blockchain network set for public mainnet launch on September 16, 2026.
Ripple is advancing institutional blockchain adoption by unifying tokenized asset issuance, liquidity, continuous 24/7 settlement, and native lending infrastructure directly on the XRP Ledger.
Boerse Stuttgart Digital and institutional trading firm Tradias have finalized their merger, establishing a unified 300-employee European digital asset hub across trading, custody, staking, and tokenization.
Shaw Walters, founder of Eliza Labs, has officially declared the native Eliza token "dead" and announced that the supporting foundation is winding down after transferring its remaining treasury to settle a federal class action…
Cloudflare has launched Cloudflare Wallets, a novel programmable payment and identity infrastructure designed to empower AI agents to frictionlessly buy APIs, MCP tools, and content across the web using x402 micropayments.
Following data showing more Bitcoin lost to self-custody errors than exchange collapses, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao argues that exchange custody may offer lower statistical risk for average users despite non-custodial ideals.