Mastercard will sponsor a 36-hour XRP Ledger hackathon in New York scheduled for October 24–25, 2026. XRPL Commons announced the sponsorship on August 26, positioning the payments giant alongside developers…
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…
BlackRock has reduced the minimum value required for eligible investors to convert Bitcoin into shares of its iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) from $25 million to $1 million. The change, implemented…
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.…
Nigeria, long regarded as Africa’s largest cryptocurrency market, faces growing risk of losing its regional leadership as new tax guidelines increase compliance costs and could drive trading activity offshore, according…
PwC Nigeria has warned that Nigeria’s newly issued tax guidelines on virtual assets introduce greater clarity but also create practical and legal uncertainties that could raise compliance costs and operational…
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…
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…
