Senator Cynthia Lummis took the Nakamoto stage at Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas on Monday, April 27, and delivered the line the U.S. crypto industry has been waiting eight months to hear. The Senate, she told the conference floor, “will…
Kraken Becomes First Crypto Bank to Receive Federal Reserve Master Account
3 Key Takeaways Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan warned that $6 trillion in bank deposits, roughly 30-35% of all U.S. commercial bank deposits, could migrate to stablecoins if Congress allows interest-bearing stablecoin products The banking industry’s fear is simple…
Senator Cynthia Lummis Rebuts Elizabeth Warren: Fiat’s $900M Laundering vs. Crypto’s $900K. Crypto not the problem
US Senator Cynthia Lummis countered Senator Elizabeth Warren’s criticism of cryptocurrency, highlighting a significant disparity in the volume of money laundered through fiat currency compared to cryptocurrency. Senator Lummis emphasized that over $900 million has been laundered using fiat, starkly…
DeFi’s $292M KelpDAO Stress Test: Standard Chartered Says ‘Bent Not Broken,’ JPMorgan Disagrees
At 17:35 UTC on April 18, 2026, an attacker tied to North Korea’s Lazarus Group sent a single forged cross-chain message through KelpDAO’s LayerZero bridge. The bridge accepted it, releasing 116,500 rsETH tokens, roughly 18% of the entire restaked-Ethereum supply,…
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 November 16, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin introduced Kohaku, a bold new privacy framework designed to make private transactions the default experience for Ethereum wallet users.…
