DOJ files to confiscate alleged North Korea IT worker crypto
The US Department of Justice has moved to seize $7.74 million in crypto allegedly earned by North Korean IT workers...
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Blackrock’s Tokenized Money Market Fund BUIDL Tops $10M in May Dividends
BUIDL paid more than $10 million in dividends in May, marking its highest monthly payout to date. BUIDL Tops $43.4M...
Trump crypto wallet announcement spirals into confusion
The announcement of a Trump-branded crypto wallet has been labelled “absolute chaos” as a business linked to the Trumps said...
Australia overhauls crypto ATM rules to combat rising scams
Australia’s national financial intelligence agency has rolled out new operating rules and transaction limits for crypto ATM operators, as federal...
TON has brief downtime before being restored
The Open Network (TON), an independent layer-1 blockchain that has a symbiotic relationship with the Telegram messaging platform, experienced a...
BitMEX discovers cybersecurity lapses in North Korea hacker group
The BitMEX crypto exchange’s security team discovered gaps in the operational security of the Lazarus Group, a North Korean (DPRK)...
FTX Bankruptcy Estate distributes $5 billion
The FTX Recovery Trust has initiated a second round of payments to its creditors. On May 30, the Trust started...
Base briefly nears 1,000 TPS, making it speed competitive with Solana
Coinbase’s layer-2 blockchain Base briefly saw the number of transactions it processed per second near 1,000, bringing it closer to...
Bitlayer Teams up With Major Bitcoin Mining Pools to Achieve ‘First’ BitVM Implementation
Bitlayer has formed partnerships with three bitcoin mining pools—Antpool, F2pool, and Spiderpool—to enhance the implementation of the Bitcoin Virtual Machine...
Real-world assets could revitalize dying NFT lending market: DappRadar
Real-world assets linking up with non-fungible tokens (NFTs) is one of a few key catalysts that could reignite the waning...
Dubai launches first licensed tokenized real estate project in MENA region
Dubai has launched the first licensed tokenized real estate project in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, previewing...
Stacks Resumes Block Production Amid Warnings of ‘Occasional Degradation’
Bitcoin Layer 2 blockchain solution Stacks announced on May 24 the resumption of block production after resolving issues related to...
Industry exec sounds alarm on Ledger phishing letter delivered by USPS
Scammers posing as Ledger, a hardware wallet manufacturer, are sending physical letters to crypto users instructing them to "validate" their...
FIFA Launches Multi-Purpose Blockchain on Avalanche
FIFA, the organization governing the world’s football associations, has launched its custom, engagement-oriented Layer 1 blockchain on Avalanche. FIFA Collect,...
‘No questions requested’ Bitcoin launderer gets 6 years in prison
A US man operating what prosecutors called a “no questions asked” cash-to-Bitcoin conversion service has been sentenced to six years...
Synthetix scuttles $27M Derive deal after community concerns
Decentralized finance platform Synthetix has axed its $27 million plan to acquire crypto options platform Derive after negative community feedback.A...
SEC charges Unicoin and executives for alleged $100 million fraud
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has charged crypto platform Unicoin and three of its executives, alleging they made false...
Binance wants arbitration for all members of securities class suit
Crypto exchange Binance has asked a US federal judge to send all members of a class-action lawsuit alleging it sold...
Tornado Cash dev’s attorneys say prosecutors hid exculpatory evidence
Attorneys for Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm filed a motion asking the court to reconsider the motion to dismiss the...
The Public internet is a bottleneck for blockchain — DoubleZero CEO
Public internet infrastructure is the critical speed and performance constraint on high-throughput blockchain networks, according to Austin Federa, co-founder and...
Tokenization makes investing more accessible — Robinhood exec
Tokenization could open new opportunities for retail investors to access traditionally restricted asset classes, according to Johann Kerbrat, senior vice...
Asset tokenization expected to speed capital flows, says Chainlink’s Nazarov
Asset tokenization is set to accelerate the movement of capital across traditional markets, according to Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov. Speaking...
