China has renewed its ambitions for a national blockchain network. It's not clear, though, what happens to the infrastructure it has spent years developing.

Tether quickly unfroze THORChain's USDT vaults, while its current blacklist process still leaves a measurable gap between proposing and executing many freezes.

Blast and Abstract are preparing to close, but some surviving rivals collect even less in transaction fees.

Ethereum's security helped sell Starknet, but its upgrade schedule could now push the network away.

OpenAI dropped more than 700 math papers. Now an Ethereum researcher wants crypto holders to prepare for "bunker mode."

TRON's vast USDT market is getting a more direct route into U.S. banking through Polygon's expanding payments stack.

Japanese traders are increasingly pairing stock portfolios with Hyperliquid positions, using crypto perps to hedge the same macro risks they face in TradFi.

On-chain lenders are sitting on $7.3 billion in deposits, but borrowers are using only about a third of that capacity.

BitMart originally put its 2021 hack at about $150 million and promised to make users whole. Its new restructuring plan tells a completely different story.

Vitalik Buterin is floating a new layer between Ethereum and its users, though this one wouldn't be a blockchain.

Users sent roughly 766 ETH into a GIWA mainnet that GIWA says it never launched.

Bitget says it is trying to freeze and recover funds from its $352 million hack, but the biggest chunk has no on-chain freeze button.

Polymarket spent $112 million securing a federally regulated route back into the U.S., but New York is testing whether that federal stamp protects it at all.

HYPE is finally getting Binance spot trading, 664 days after launch and months after a public fight over the exchange Binance couldn't copy.

Blockstream had two proposed fixes for a flaw in Liquid. It chose the one that introduced the bug hackers exploited.

Switchboard is shutting down just weeks after an oracle compromise cost two DeFi protocols hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Just two weeks after Hyperliquid unveiled a way to gate its normally open builder markets behind allowlists, Kraken parent Payward says it wants to use the feature in the U.S.

Robinhood Chain finally has Etherscan support, 75 days after the brokerage giant launched its Ethereum-based blockchain.

A crypto brokerage that raised $15 million is shutting down before establishing a broader public product.

Midnight is winding down the team tasked with attracting developers, betting instead on AI tools.

Coinbase CFO Alesia Haas questioned the value of permissioned blockchains days before Circle, one of Coinbase's closest partners, launches one.

A Zcash wallet has removed claims that its integrated swaps are "trustless" after a user's funds became stuck in a compliance review at its swap provider.

Crypto tax service CoinTracking has been caught in a second third-party email security incident in 10 months.

Bitcoin's apparent decade-low break from U.S. stocks shows up in longer-term price trends, but not in their day-to-day returns, Bitwise told The Coinformer.

Liquid lost nearly all of its BTC in one withdrawal after SideSwap said its peg service supported transactions "of any size."

Polygon CEO Marc Boiron says he wants employees to take breaks. He also says it "pains" him when they do.

A Coldcard hacker appears to have used THORChain's own swap site months after the project pledged to screen wallets for bad actors.

Thailand's new crypto rules could leave incoming crypto unavailable for withdrawal until exchanges obtain information about who sent it.

Zondacrypto's collapse has formally moved into bankruptcy, with its trustee estimating claims could exceed €700 million as thousands of former customers try to recover their money.

Base is celebrating $236 million in tokenized stock volume after roughly a week, though trackers show only about $9 million currently sitting on-chain.

Hyperliquid is getting closer to American traders, but the platform is bringing an old problem with it as wallets linked to DPRK show up on its rails again.

Cronos halted its entire network after a Tectonic exploit, exposing how much control its invitation-only validator set has over a chain.

Robinhood Chain had its biggest-ever day for new tokens just as Uniswap launched its own token factory. Weeks later, only about 1% of the chain's tokens born that week were still trading.

Hyperliquid's push toward USDC is squeezing out another alternative dollar, with $4 billion trading venue HyENA winding down.

Bullish says AI infrastructure financing has grown larger than auto loans, but public debt data suggests the comparison is difficult to reconcile.

AI is increasingly helping crypto attackers break in, but it has yet to meaningfully change how stolen funds are laundered on-chain, according to TRM Labs.

A researcher says the exploit that halted TAC drained nearly 3B TAC tokens and appears to have reused the same Cosmos EVM bug that hit MANTRA days earlier.

NoOnes, once led by Paxful co-founder Ray Youssef, is shutting down after saying EU sanctions made the business unsustainable.

BounceBit is abandoning its blockchain after an attacker exploited a flaw strikingly similar to one its underlying Evmos stack patched in 2024.

One year after Ye pitched YZY Money as a new system built on crypto, the token remains tradable but much of the broader product is difficult to find in working form.

Dune is restricting new free accounts to view-only access after 14 days, months after cutting a quarter of its staff as it pushed deeper into AI.

A crypto startup backed by YouTube stars is closing after five years, saying its fan-token model never recovered and a last-ditch AI pivot failed.

Trump Media is charging traders six figures for milliseconds of advance access to Trump's posts. One crypto founder says he still got Hyperliquid news from X.

Binance supplied Russia with extensive personal data that later became evidence in a terrorism-financing case, documents reviewed by Reuters show.

Chainalysis has taken the U.S. government to court after rival blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs secured a $94.7 million ICE contract.

Three days after Zcash closed its bounty program, a researcher hired by Shielded Labs, used AI to uncover a flaw that put $2.3 billion worth of ZEC at risk.

Riot Platforms sold more than 5,880 BTC after mining roughly 1,590 during the quarter as it tapped its treasury to fund its data center expansion for AI.

The Bank of Russia omitted USDC from a retail crypto whitelist less than two months after a deputy finance minister said the stablecoin would be included.

Upbit, still home to BONK's biggest individual spot market, will stop supporting the Solana memecoin next month.

Only 26% of violent crypto theft attempts succeeded this year, but the average successful haul more than doubled to at least $2.5 million.