Ledn’s addition of Tether Gold lending comes as tokenized commodities expand, with the sector accounting for nearly 17% of the $43 billion RWA market. Bitcoin lending platform Ledn has expanded its services to include Tether Gold (XAUt), allowing investors to hold the tokenized asset and borrow against it in much the same way they can...Continue Reading

Capital B shareholders approved up to $120 billion in financing capacity, including equity and credit instruments, to support the company’s Bitcoin accumulation strategy. France-listed Bitcoin treasury company Capital B’s shareholders approved a delegation of new capital-raising instruments that may bring up to 105 billion euros ($120.4 billion) in funding to fuel the company’s Bitcoin acquisitions....Continue Reading

G7 leaders broadened their warning over North Korean crypto theft to include wider cybercrime as researchers link DPRK-affiliated actors to billions of dollars in stolen digital assets. Group of Seven (G7) leaders have renewed their call for joint action against North Korean cryptocurrency thefts and cybercrime. In a statement adopted at this week’s G7 summit...Continue Reading

Security researchers warn that deprecated smart contracts can remain vulnerable long after projects stop maintaining them. Deprecated Aztec infrastructure has suffered a second exploit within days, adding to concerns about the security of abandoned smart contract infrastructure. Aztec’s private rollup bridge was exploited on Thursday for 1,158 Ether (ETH), 150,000 Dai (DAI) and 0.46 renBTC...Continue Reading

Bitcoin could be absent from the world’s top five assets by market cap until 2036, despite an estimate seeing the BTC bear market being nearly 70% complete. Bitcoin (BTC) has dropped ten places by market capitalization in a year as the bear market heavily punishes crypto. Key points: Bitcoin has dropped to 15th place in...Continue Reading

Grayscale and CoinShares are applying traditional valuation techniques to crypto assets as institutions explore revenue-generating DeFi protocols. Aave’s native cryptocurrency could reach $175 under a one-year base-case scenario as asset managers increasingly apply traditional finance valuation models to decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens, according to a new report by Grayscale Research. The digital asset manager said...Continue Reading

Rodney “Bitcoin Rodney” Burton faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison for conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business. A 56-year-old Florida resident has pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business in connection with a $1.8 billion fraudulent crypto platform. According to a statement from...Continue Reading

A federal judge has denied a bid from Michelle Bond, the wife of former FTX executive Ryan Salame, to have campaign finance charges against her dismissed. Michelle Bond, the wife of former FTX executive Ryan Salame, will face illicit campaign finance charges after a judge rejected her argument that prosecutors promised Salame that she would...Continue Reading

Builderbot is the “missing layer between AI coding tools and how engineering actually works at scale,” said Brad Axen, head of AI capabilities at Block. Jack Dorsey’s financial services firm Block rolled out a new suite of AI-native tools on Wednesday, which it says can execute around 15% of all production code changes across the...Continue Reading

France’s cybersecurity agency plans to block certification of products without quantum-resistant encryption starting in 2027, with full adoption targeted for 2030. France’s national cybersecurity agency ANSSI said Tuesday that it will stop certifying security products that lack quantum-resistant encryption, reflecting growing concern among governments about quantum threats to cryptography. ANSSI chief of staff Samih Souissi...Continue Reading