Roman Storm’s Early Passion for Code Led to Tornado Cash — and a Guilty Verdict
Roman Storm, the Tornado Cash co-founder and developer, found an interest in computer software at a young age after his...
Blockchain News
Base Incident Report Reveals Infrastructure Weakness Behind Outage
Base has confirmed it experienced a 33-minute disruption on August 5, halting block production on its mainnet. The disruption occurred...
China Warns Iris-Scanning Crypto Projects Pose National Security Risk
China warned of the increasing use of biometric data by crypto-linked projects, cautioning that iris-scanning programs operating under the guise...
Hester Peirce Defends Crypto Privacy Amid Tornado Cash Trial
US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hester Peirce told an audience of blockchain researchers and practitioners on Monday that...
How Blockchain can Drive AI Innovation And Bolster the Energy Grid
Blockchain technology can help modernize the US electrical grid by marshaling human labor and stranded resources to create decentralized energy...
$3.5 Billion Bitcoin Heist, Biggest Crypto Hack Ever, Retroactively Uncovered
Chinese mining pool LuBian was hacked in 2020 for 127,426 Bitcoin (BTC), valued at about $3.5 billion at the time,...
DeFi Education Fund Gives Advice To Senate On Crypto Market Bill
Crypto lobby group DeFi Education Fund has called on the US Senate Banking Committee to rethink how it plans to...
Crypto Hacks in July Top $142 Million, Crypto Exchanges Hit
Bad actors and scammers stole at least $142 million from the crypto space in July across 17 separate attacks, with...
Ripple: Tokenized Assets to Approach $19T by 2033—90% of Finance Leaders See Massive Blockchain Impact
A new Ripple report reveals global banks are rapidly shifting to blockchain, forecasting a $19 trillion tokenized asset explosion as...
Key Player In $13M Crypto Ponzi Pleads Guilty
A major player in a crypto Ponzi scheme that duped victims out of $13 million with claims of using artificial...
US Seeks $2.4M in Bitcoin, Which Could Help Grow Treasury
The United States has filed a civil complaint seeking the forfeiture of $2.4 million in Bitcoin seized by the Dallas...
BNB High Boosts CZ’s Holdings to $75.8 Billion
Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao’s reported BNB holdings have rocketed past an estimated value of $75.8 billion as the token...
Solo Bitcoin Miner Successfully Mines Block
A solo Bitcoin (BTC) miner successfully mined a block on Saturday, collecting the 3.125 BTC block reward, valued at $372,773. The...
Dragonfly Capital Faces DOJ Threat Over Tornado Cash Ties
Dragonfly Capital could be the target of federal charges stemming from its early investment in Tornado Cash developer PepperSec, Inc.,...
New Hulk and Ozzy Memecoins Soar in Value After Celeb Deaths
Memecoins inspired by the late wrestling legend Hulk Hogan and Black Sabbath rocker Ozzy Osbourne skyrocketed as tributes flooded over...
XRP Ledger at Core of VERT’s Strategy for $500M in Tokenized Private Credit Pipeline
XRP Ledger is powering a $130 million breakthrough in Brazil’s private credit markets, with over $500 million more queued as...
US Files Forfeiture For $7.1M In Crypto From Investment Scam
The US is looking to nab $7.1 million worth of crypto seized by Homeland Security in December tied to an...
Bit Origin Buys 40 Million Dogecoin As Part of Crypto Pivot
China-based pork processing company and Bitcoin miner Bit Origin has officially kicked off its crypto treasury initiative with its first...
Ethereum Hard Fork Fusaka To Launch In November
Ethereum core developers have tentatively chosen November to release the protocol’s next major hard fork, called Fusaka, aimed at making...
GENIUS Act Blocks Big Tech From Dominating Stablecoins: Circle Exec
The GENIUS Act contains a little-noticed clause that prevents technology giants and Wall Street behemoths from dominating the stablecoin market,...
How to Use Google Gemini to Turn Crypto News Into Trade Signals
Key takeawaysGoogle Gemini can break down complex crypto news, like new US legislation, by pulling clear summaries from trusted sources.By...
Satoshi-Era Bitcoin Whale Shifts Last Of Stack To Galaxy Digital
A Satoshi-era Bitcoin whale with 80,201 Bitcoin has shifted the other 40,192 Bitcoin, worth $4.77 billion, to Galaxy Digital, joining...
