Cold wallets keep private keys offline, largely eliminating remote internet-based attacks that target hot wallets and exchanges. Yet they remain exposed to supply-chain tampering, physical theft, seed-phrase compromise, phishing, and…
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued a first-of-its-kind sectoral determination covering Iran’s digital assets sector, enabling sanctions against any person worldwide who…
Iran and Oman have resumed high-level discussions on managing transit through the Strait of Hormuz, the critical waterway that carries roughly one-fifth of the world’s seaborne oil. The talks focus…
U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States is giving serious consideration to renaming Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” escalating rhetorical tensions in the ongoing trade dispute with Canada. The…
Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited has become the first traditional bank to serve as an authorised distributor of HKDAP (“HKD At Par”), the first regulated Hong Kong dollar-backed stablecoin.…
Canada is set to announce retaliatory tariffs against the United States after relations between the two countries deteriorated sharply. U.S. President Donald Trump warned Canadian leaders on Monday to “fall…
An attacker spent approximately $951 to seize control of Term Labs’ vault governance and drain an estimated $8.5 million from strategy vaults on August 23, 2026. The incident has become…
Ethereum researchers have published a concrete design for a post-quantum public key registry aimed at protecting the network’s validators from future quantum computing threats. The proposal, led by Thomas Coratger…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (NYSE: BABA) shares declined nearly 4% in U.S. trading on August 24, 2026, following a larger drop in Hong Kong after the company announced a major…
A 23-year-old Omaha, Nebraska man who used ChatGPT to help plan an armed bank robbery has been sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison. Deron Lewis-Payne received a…
