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Chair Kevin Warsh kept the federal funds rate at 3.5% - 3.75% and offered no new signals on when cuts - or hikes - might come.

Rather than competing directly with faster chains, some builders argue Ethereum's strength lies in supporting the layer-2 networks where trading is taking place.

For the first time in several years, markets were somewhat split on whether the U.S. central bank would hike rates.

Despite being down today, ETH has clawed back from the worst levels of the year. Now it's waiting on the Fed.

New commodity options let traders gain exposure to gold and silver prices through Binance’s Abu Dhabi-regulated exchange.

Bitcoin traders weathered an oil-price surge and ongoing Asia chip-stock sell-off into the Federal Reserve interest-rate decision.

Zcash is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that enables users to hide key details of transactions by leveraging zk-SNARKs.

AI developers are quietly buying physical books by the millions, slicing them apart, scanning every page into AI training datasets, and discarding the originals.

MoonPay’s PayBox vault lets ChatGPT and Claude users authorize crypto purchases, token swaps and crosschain transactions while retaining custody of their assets.

OpenAI quietly updated its breach disclosure to confirm its agent accessed four external services beyond Hugging Face. Only one has been named so far.

Passed by the House a year ago, the bill cleared Senate Banking in May and still awaits a floor vote.

Tokenization and 24/7 markets are reshaping finance, making always-on banking a reality.

Seoul’s historic two-day crash and widening hyperscaler credit spreads suggest the AI trade’s leverage is starting to bite, in equities and in bonds.

Today's bridge model won't scale as hundreds of companies issue their own stablecoins, fragmenting liquidity, Brale CEO Ben Milne said in an interview.

Wall Street expects a sluggish second quarter from Coinbase as crypto trading activity cools, putting all eyes on and pending U.S. crypto legislation.

In this week's Crypto Long & Short, Immunefi's Mitchell Amador writes that most of 2026's stolen crypto is leaving through keys, signers and governance, not contract bugs, and explains why “we were audited” was never the same as “we are safe.”

pcaversaccio (known as "pc"), is a prominent security researcher in the Ethereum ecosystem. His addition brings the foundation's board to four members.

"We were a scrappy startup," Delo said of BitMEX back in 2016, when it launched the first perpetual future. "We thought, ‘Just get it out there. If it was any good, the market would show us.’"

Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, Web3 and crypto regulation.

BNY is launching a blockchain-based transfer agency platform as the bank expands its digital asset infrastructure and moves core financial records onchain.

Roughly 5% of the funds in the retired Orchard pool have gone through the turnstile. The rest sit in a pool that can no longer take deposits.

Crypto’s fundamentals have never been stronger, yet degens keep chasing hot new narratives. Behavioral finance may explain why get rich quick stories continue to beat substance.

As perpetuals enter regulated markets, critics warn they import systemic risk. But the risk comes from venue design, leverage limits, margin rules, index construction, and default handling, not the contract itself, argues Chris Tyrer, President of Bullish Exchange.

The world’s largest custodian will keep its existing system while adding a digital ownership record for tokenized funds.

Plus markets are mixed ahead of FOMC; new Wall St. giants are backing the Clarity Act; and Zcash officially launched its Ironwood upgrade

The service is limited to eligible UAE residents and bookings are priced and settled in dirhams.

The figure is seven times that of the $11.4 billion in reported losses, a rate drawn from a 2017 survey on how rarely fraud is reported.

Russia’s FSB says Telegram founder Pavel Durov faces a terrorism-related charge and an international arrest warrant, while a separate French case remains open.

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The suit claims Apple ranked a fake Sparrow Wallet app and put it in curated crypto collections alongside legitimate ones.

A CoinGecko study points to rising demand for tokenized equities and commodities on centralized exchanges, with perpetual futures driving most of the market’s trading activity.

Durov has previously called Russia’s criminal case against him "a sad spectacle of a state afraid of its own people."

Hungary removed mandatory third-party checks for crypto conversions as CoinCash received authorization to provide digital asset services under MiCA.

Gabriel Perez, who was accused of profiting from Kalshi bets tied to President Donald Trump’s speeches, is no longer employed by the federal government.

The odds that a ceasefire lasts at least 14 consecutive days dropped by 10% today on Polymarket, and traders on Myriad believe peace talks won't happen until next month.

Apple’s supposedly inadequate AI spending suddenly looks less like falling behind and more like avoiding a very expensive bill.