Botanix Pulls Plug on Bitcoin L2 After 4 Years as Fee Income Falls Short
Key TakeawaysBitcoin L2 network Botanix is winding down all operations after a 4-year effort to build on the blockchain.The team...
Blockchain News
Privacy Push Accelerates as StarkWare and Sui Launch Compliance-Ready Confidential Transfers
StarkWare and Sui launched new privacy features this week that allow users to conceal transaction data without fully sacrificing auditability...
Yuga Labs Developers Rescue 68 NFTs From Flooring Exploit
Yuga Labs-affiliated developers rescued 68 non-fungible tokens from Flooring Protocol after an exploit put NFTs from collections including Bored Apes...
Travala Launches AI Hotel Booking Protocol With USDC on Base
Singapore-based crypto travel platform Travala has launched a protocol it says lets artificial intelligence agents search, reserve and pay for...
Zcash Fixes Privacy Pool Bug After Explorer Confusion
Zcash developers temporarily suspended Orchard transactions after discovering a critical vulnerability in the privacy-focused blockchain’s latest shielded pool, then restored...
Cardano’s TapTools Winds Down After Losing 5 Execs
TapTools, a Cardano-focused real-time analytics platform, has begun winding down after its fifth top-level executive departure, compounding leadership instability and...
Sui Addresses Three Network Outages With Major Upgrade
The Sui Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind the Sui Network, says it has made a “major upgrade” to address issues...
Sui Network Goes Down for Second Day in a Row
The Sui layer-1 blockchain experienced another disruption on Friday, causing a “network stall” that temporarily halted block production, before normal...
Sui Network Restarts After 6 Hour Outage
Sui Network is back online after a nearly six-hour outage on Thursday, which it attributed to a bug introduced by...
Google Software Engineer Faces Charges Over Polymarket Bets
US authorities have charged a Google employee with allegedly using information from the company to make bets on Polymarket and...
Binance Denies WSJ Report Alleging $850M in Iran-Linked Crypto Transactions
Binance CEO Richard Teng has pushed back against a new Wall Street Journal investigation claiming the exchange processed $850 million...
DeFi Hacks Shake Institutional Confidence as Risks Outpace Yields
Security exploits are weighing on institutional appetite for decentralized finance (DeFi), even as broader crypto adoption continues through stablecoins and...
Boerse Stuttgart, Societe Generale, flatexDEGIRO Join Forces for EU Blockchain Securities Settlement
Boerse Stuttgart Group’s tokenized securities settlement platform Seturion has partnered with Societe Generale, its crypto subsidiary SG-Forge and online broker...
Bankr Disables Transactions After Hacker Accessed 14 Crypto Wallets
AI-powered crypto trading assistant Bankr said it disabled transactions after identifying an attacker who gained access to at least 14...
SEC Exemption Tokenized Stock Buying and selling: Report
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly making an “innovation exemption” for blockchain-based tokenized trading of public companies, even...
SBI, Rakuten, Nomura Preparing to Launch Crypto Investment Trusts in Japan
Japan’s major brokerages are preparing to bring crypto investment trusts to retail investors, with SBI Securities and Rakuten Securities already...
Kraken Switches from LayerZero to Chainlink after Kelp DAO Hack
Crypto exchange Kraken announced Thursday that it had changed its cross-chain provider from LayerZero to Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol, joining...
Moody’s Rates Fidelity’s Ethereum-Based USD Liquidity Fund at Highest Aaa-mf Level
Key TakeawaysMoody’s assigned an Aaa-mf assessment to Fidelity International’s USD Digital Liquidity Fund on May 13, 2026.The fund, managed by...
JPMorgan Files Tokenized Money Market For Stablecoin Issuers
JPMorgan has filed to launch a tokenized money market fund on Ethereum, allowing stablecoin issuers to hold reserves backing their...
Canton Network Developer Digital Asset Seeks $300M From A16z Crypto
Key TakeawaysA16z crypto leads a ~$300 million round at Digital Asset Holdings, valuing the company at ~$2 billion, per Bloomberg.Canton...
Whitehat Returns $190K to Renegade After Hacking Them
The team behind the Renegade.fi protocol said a whitehat hacker returned about $190,000 after exploiting one of its Arbitrum-based decentralized...
How Iran’s biggest crypto exchange stays off the OFAC blacklist
Iran’s internet formally remained part of global routing, but user activity fell almost to zero. That points to a managed...
