Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 hours ago
The OCC’s new GENIUS Act rules let exchanges like Coinbase and Robinhood keep paying interest-like stablecoin rewards, despite warnings from banks about deposit flight. TLDR Federal regulators have confirmed that crypto exchanges can keep paying int...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 hours ago
The OCC is encouraging community banks to apply as permitted stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act as federal licensing requirements take effect on Jan. 18, 2027. TLDR The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is urging community banks t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 7 hours ago
Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe has proposed halting the automatic 8% ZEC allocation to Zcash Community Grants, citing a treasury of about $125 million. TLDR Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe has proposed ending the automatic 8% share of newly created ZEC that...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 7 hours ago
Solana’s Firedancer team now requires researchers to burn 1 SOL per bug report to combat AI-generated submissions flooding its security program. TLDR Firedancer, the Solana validator client built by Jump Crypto, now requires researchers to burn 1 SO...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 8 hours ago
Aviva Investors has launched a tokenized share class of its Sterling Liquidity Fund on the XRP Ledger, its second tokenized fund and a major step for real-world asset tokenization. TLDR Aviva Investors has launched a tokenized share class of its Ste...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 8 hours ago
Michael Saylor’s Strategy has temporarily paused its Bitcoin accumulation strategy, choosing to spend approximately $205 million repurchasing its preferred stock instead. The decision marks a shift in the company’s recent capital allocati...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 8 hours ago
Ethereum developers have resolved a potentially serious vulnerability in the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade that could have allowed block builders to withdraw ETH intended for staking validators. The flaw raised concerns about the security of staking d...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 hours ago
Bitcoin and Ethereum could face another wave of selling pressure as prominent cryptocurrency trader Ansem turns bearish on both assets and major technology stocks. The trader believes weakening technical trends, excessive enthusiasm surrounding artif...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 9 hours ago
Ripple has secured final approval from US regulators to establish its national trust bank, marking a significant milestone in the company’s push to expand its institutional financial services. However, the regulatory breakthrough has yet to translate...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 11 hours ago
More than 11.1 million Bitcoin (BTC), representing approximately 55% of all mined coins, cannot be linked to a known owner, according to an October ownership snapshot from Galaxy Research. The findings highlight how Bitcoin ownership remains difficul...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Institutional appetite faded fast. Spot Bitcoin ETFs in the US saw roughly $228 million of net withdrawals between October 12 and 16, following $681 million the week before, for a two-week total of $909 million. That is the biggest pullback since Apr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Bitcoin had a bumpy stretch. After reaching roughly $83,800 on October 13, the flagship asset slid to a weekly trough near $80,100 two days later, as traders reacted to a hotter-than-forecast inflation reading and a sharp pullback in AI-linked stocks...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin supports Moonshot AI’s choice to leave advanced offensive hacking material out of its Kimi K3.1 Pro model. TL;DR He says restricting what a model can do is far better than restricting who may use it, and fears AI...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Electrum, one of Bitcoin’s oldest software wallets, published a security advisory on Saturday describing a weakness that attackers were already abusing. TL;DR A bug in the Electrum bitcoin wallet let malicious servers slip fake pending payments into...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Tech investor Chamath Palihapitiya, once a loud Bitcoin bull, now says the asset is capped and will eventually be hacked and fall to zero. TL;DR He cites a limited pool of buyers, security risks from leaked ownership data, and AI-driven attacks on c...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Strategy’s common shares returned 77.4% between June 26 and October 23, 2026, outperforming four of the company’s preferred securities, according to a performance chart shared by executive chairman Michael Saylor. The comparison comes as...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 day ago
Elon Musk says SpaceX has secured $40 billion in debt financing for artificial intelligence infrastructure, highlighting the enormous capital requirements of the AI computing race. The announcement came alongside a warning that specialized cloud prov...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 5 days ago
TL;DR: Archax has adopted Chainlink Data Streams to supply pricing information for GOVY, its tokenised US Treasury product, as it develops collateral use cases. Putting Treasury bills on a blockchain is only the beginning. If an institution wants to...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 5 days ago
TL;DR: In a newly published explanation of its European consultation response, the Cardano Foundation argues for regulating activities and intermediaries rather than creating blanket rules for decentralised technology. The Cardano Foundation has spel...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 5 days ago
TL;DR: Fhenix says CoFHE is available on Ethereum and Arbitrum mainnets, giving approved applications a way to perform computations involving encrypted data. A major weakness of public blockchain applications is that transparency is often the default...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 5 days ago
TL;DR: PancakeSwap’s ‘The Flip’ vote would boost liquidity providers‘ share of certain trading fees to 88% while cutting daily CAKE emissions to 7,000. PancakeSwap holders are being asked to decide how much value should go to...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 5 days ago
Exchange Tokens Are Being Redesigned Around One Question: How Do You Stop People Leaving? The airdrop cycle of 2024 and 2025 produced a repeatable pattern, and everyone in the market can recite it. A protocol announces a points programme. Volume clim...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 5 days ago
TL;DR: Zcash’s NU7 upgrade is targeted for early November, promising 25-second blocks, while final activation parameters still require implementation work. Zcash developers are moving closer to a substantial change in the network’s basic...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 5 days ago
How a Verified Smart Contract is Changing DeFi Yield Generation A revolutionary smart contract called NOX FUND has just launched on BNB Smart Chain, and it’s already paying users guaranteed 1.5% daily returns on USDT deposits with complete tran...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 5 days ago
TL;DR: NGRAVE says attackers hijacked a notification provider used by LIQUID, directing users to a fake recovery-page and stealing at least $2.56 million. A convincing security notification became the entry point for a costly crypto phishing campaign...
