Turkey’s largest cryptocurrency trading platform, BTCturk, entered 2026 under heavy scrutiny. A new hack drained about $48 million from its hot wallets. The incident marked the third major security failure at the exchange in less than two years. Many Turkish…
Spot crypto ETF trading volume reaches $2 trillion level
U.S. regulators and asset managers have turned spot crypto ETF trading into a core channel for institutional access to digital assets. In less than two years since the first spot Bitcoin ETFs launched in January 2024, U.S. products have already…
Bitfinex hacker Ilya Lichtenstein credits Trump for release
Bitfinex hacker Ilya Lichtenstein has re-entered public life after announcing that he left prison early, a little over a year into a five-year sentence for his role in the 2016 Bitfinex breach. In a post shared on X, he said…
Did ZachXBT uncover an EVM hack hitting many wallets?
Less than a day into the new year, blockchain investigator ZachXBT warned that a fresh exploit was quietly draining small balances from hundreds of cryptocurrency wallets across Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) networks. His early alert turned scattered user complaints into…
BNB Chain’s 2025 upgrades cut fees 98% as users hit 4.8m
BNB Chain’s 2025 story shows clear changes that touched users, traders and builders each day. The network ran two major hard forks, Lorentz in April and Maxwell in June. Both upgrades aimed at faster execution and lower costs, based on…
SEC Democratic commissioner Caroline Crenshaw to leave role
When SEC Democratic commissioner leaves, the move is more than a quiet staff change in Washington; it comes at a decisive moment for crypto regulation in the United States. Caroline Crenshaw, the sole Democrat on the Securities and Exchange Commission…
Can US Crypto Regulation Move Stablecoins Into Finance?
US Crypto Regulation entered a new phase in 2025, when lawmakers finally moved from vague guidance to a concrete rulebook that targeted stablecoins, market structure, and exchange-traded products. For years, the United States relied on enforcement and speeches, while capital…
Is China Turning Its Digital Yuan Into An Interest Asset?
China’s central bank digital currency entered a new phase on 1 January 2026. On that date, digital yuan wallets started to earn interest at standard demand deposit rates. The shift turned what had once been treated as pure digital cash…
Ethereum posts 4.2B net inflows in 2025 as L2 funds shift
Ethereum closed 2025 with a clear lead in net capital inflows across public blockchains, underlining how strongly it still anchors decentralised finance despite intense competition from newer networks and Layer 2 solutions. During the year, the chain attracted about 64.5…
How did the USDT laundering case move over $1 billion?
The unsealing of a criminal case in the Eastern District of Virginia has drawn attention…
Vitalik Buterin Unveils Kohaku: The Game-Changing Privacy Framework Revolutionizing Ethereum Wallets in 2025-2026
Buenos Aires, Argentina – In a highly anticipated keynote at Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress 2 on…
