Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Security researcher Joe Grand says he warned Ledger about signs of physically modified devices months before a wider hardware-wallet supply-chain attack came to light. The dispute concerns communications and product distribution, not proof tha...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: HEX and PulseChain founder Richard Heart was reportedly detained in Istanbul in connection with a Finnish tax investigation. The reported legal proceedings are separate from his earlier US securities dispute, and no conviction is established b...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Stablecoin issuer Tether has participated in a funding round for AI infrastructure startup AIsa, bringing the startup’s cumulative fundraising above $9 million. The company is working on payment and access systems for autonomous software...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Taiwanese authorities have reportedly restricted access to Coinbase and Kalshi sites over concerns involving election betting. The measures arrive ahead of local elections and underscore differing national approaches to prediction markets. Tai...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Ripple Prime is offering eligible institutional clients exposure to perpetual derivatives referencing traditional assets through infrastructure connected to Hyperliquid. The service extends Ripple’s reach beyond cryptocurrency payments....
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Pirate Chain developers disclosed a vulnerability linked to roughly 39.8 million unauthorized ARRR tokens. The incident raised urgent questions about network supply and how an attack can be investigated when transactions use strong privacy pro...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: A Canadian court has heard evidence that self-described Crypto King Aiden Pleterski spent about $16.3 million of investor money on personal expenses. He has pleaded not guilty, and the criminal trial remains ongoing. A Canadian court has heard...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Reporting about a consulting arrangement involving Tether and a firm associated with former White House crypto adviser Bo Hines has raised questions about conflicts of interest. Hines’ representatives dispute wrongdoing, and the reportin...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Major public companies have reportedly objected to plans to represent their shares on a tokenized trading platform. The resistance highlights unresolved questions about shareholder protections and the regulation of blockchain-based securities....
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Solana Mobile has announced Ledger as its first external hardware partner, bringing its software to Ledger’s Atom device. The move extends Solana Mobile’s strategy beyond its own Saga and Seeker smartphones. Solana Mobile is expand...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Coinbase and card infrastructure company Marqeta are expanding their work on stablecoin-backed payment cards. The arrangement aims to let businesses build programmes that connect digital-dollar balances to conventional merchant payment network...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: A cryptocurrency scammer reportedly lost roughly 60 BTC, worth around $4.8 million, after depositing proceeds into compromised hardware wallets. The story forms part of a wider supply-chain attack involving modified Ledger devices. Someone acc...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Solana’s Accelerate event in Shanghai was abruptly postponed after organisers said registrations exceeded permitted capacity. The disruption came against the backdrop of China’s restrictive policies toward commercial cryptocurrency...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Coinbase is encouraging the Bitcoin ecosystem to begin planning for quantum-resistant security well before practical attacks become possible. Network upgrades could require years of development and consensus. Bitcoin does not face an imminent...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
Eleven years in crypto is not simply an anniversary. It means navigating multiple boom-and-bust cycles, changing asset narratives, exchange failures, and the growing convergence between traditional finance and onchain markets. At its 11-year mark, LB...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
TL;DR: Sui and Alibaba Cloud are working on an integration that would let AI agents pay for cloud services per request using stablecoins within budgets set by their owners. The collaboration was unveiled at Sui Basecamp and remains under development,...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
TL;DR: Moscow Exchange plans to begin offering cryptocurrency trading from December 1 and says testing with professional market participants is already underway. Under Russia’s new framework, unqualified investors are expected to face limits on...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
TL;DR: NextBlock has invested $3 million in Soda Labs, funding the company’s entire seed round. Soda is building privacy infrastructure based on garbled circuits and multiparty computation so financial applications can process confidential data...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
TL;DR: The XRP Ledger’s BatchV1_1 amendment remains in its activation window and is expected to enable around October 9 if validator support stays above the required threshold. The upgrade allows multiple transactions to be bundled into an atom...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
TL;DR: Binance has launched a P2P merchant referral campaign across around 20 African markets. Referrers and qualifying new merchants can each earn 50 USDT if the new merchant completes the required number of trades and reaches at least 10,000 USDT o...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
TL;DR: Hyperscale Data says Ault Markets is now providing invite-only access to a decentralized exchange running in beta on the Ault Blockchain. The publicly listed company plans to expand the platform with additional assets, including tokenized prec...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 weeks ago
TL;DR: October 8 marks the cutoff for production-style staging traffic on The Graph’s centralized Subgraph Studio endpoints for Polygon and BNB Chain. Developers are being pushed onto The Graph Network, where independent indexers serve queries...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 3 weeks ago
TL;DR: Binance has launched a Meteora spot trading competition running through October 15, with 400 BNB in token vouchers allocated to the main prize pool. Eligible users must register and trade at least $500 worth of MET pairs to qualify. Binance is...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 3 weeks ago
TL;DR: KoreInside and Digital Motion have formed a partnership designed to help issuers move regulated tokenized securities onto public blockchains including Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche and Base. The collaboration combines securities compliance infra...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 3 weeks ago
TL;DR: Yapı Kredi Kripto has selected Integral’s digital-asset technology to power pricing, liquidity and risk management for its upcoming regulated crypto trading service in Türkiye. The launch comes as the country builds a formal licensing framewor...
