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Tether’s First Full Audit: KPMG Signs Off, Reserves Exceed Liabilities by $6.8B
By David E | Yesterday
KPMG’s Clean Bill Boosts Credibility For the first time in its history, Tether has completed a comprehensive independent audit of its financial statements, with KPMG U.S.—one of the world’s “Big Four” accounting firms—delivering an...
Kalshi’s Real-Time Data Ambitions Collide With Regulatory Hurdles
By Loic Dos Santos | 4 days ago
High-speed feeds meet legal headwinds Prediction market Kalshi is pushing the boundaries of crypto trading infrastructure by launching a real-time, machine-readable data feed in partnership with Solana-based DoubleZero...
Trump Media Retreats From Crypto.com Deals as Priorities Shift
By Loic Dos Santos | 1 week ago
Trump Media’s Crypto Bet Unravels Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), the company behind Truth Social, is walking back its ambitious foray into crypto...
Revisiting: Circle’s $222M Arc Token Presale, Three Months Later
By David E | 2 weeks ago
What Our Earlier Coverage Reported On May 11, 2026, our earlier coverage reported that Circle Internet Group had raised $222 million in a private presale for its new ARC token, attracting major institutional investors like Standard.....
Bank of Italy Study Finds Stablecoin Remittances Often No Cheaper Than Traditional Methods
By Loic Dos Santos | 2 weeks ago
Conversion Fees Erode Stablecoin Savings A recent study from the Bank of Italy has cast doubt on the assumption that stablecoins offer a consistently cheaper alternative for international remittances...
We checked: Four months after Drift Protocol’s $285M exploit, what did it mean for DeFi and ETH?
By Loic Dos Santos | 2 weeks ago
What our earlier coverage said On April 3, 2026, our earlier coverage reported that Drift Protocol, Solana’s largest decentralized perpetual futures exchange, was hit by a $285 million exploit that drained its vaults in just 12 minutes...
Luno Cuts 20% of Global Staff as Automation and Crypto Downturn Bite
By Loic Dos Santos | 2 weeks ago
Second Round of Cuts This Decade Cryptocurrency exchange Luno is reducing its global workforce by roughly 20%, marking the company's second major round of layoffs in less than four years...
Zcash Ironwood Upgrade: $80M Migrates as Counterfeiting Bug Forces Shielded Pool Overhaul
By David E | 2 weeks ago
$80M Shifts to Ironwood Shielded Pool Zcash users moved approximately 176,000 ZEC—valued at about $81 million—into the newly launched Ironwood shielded pool within just 24 hours of its activation, according to coindesk.com...
1inch’s Aqua Protocol Goes Live Across 13 Chains, Letting Wallets Power Shared DeFi Liquidity
By Loic Dos Santos | 2 weeks ago
Wallets Stay in Control, Not Pools 1inch has opened its Aqua protocol to the public, enabling a new approach to decentralized finance (DeFi) liquidity across 13 Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible blockchains...
BitMart Exchange Shuts Down as Crypto Trading Slump Deepens
By Loic Dos Santos | 2 weeks ago
Withdrawal Delays Rattle BitMart Users BitMart’s announcement that it will permanently wind down its trading platform has triggered a wave of concern among customers, particularly regarding the speed and reliability of withdrawals...
BitMart Exchange to Shut Down: Nine-Year Run Ends With User Uncertainty
By David E | 2 weeks ago
After Nine Years, BitMart Calls It Quits BitMart, a global cryptocurrency exchange that has operated since 2015, will wind down all trading services by August 26, 2024...
