Leading American venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz—a major crypto industry investor that also goes by a16z—announced Friday that it has raised over $15 billion across five separate venture fund

BNY, the world’s largest custodian bank, signaled on Friday that it will begin issuing digital representations of customers’ deposits on the blockchain. In a blog post, the institution co-founded by

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has thrown his public support behind Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm—who was convicted last August of a money transmitting charge—arguing that privacy-preserving

Crypto payments firm Ripple was granted permission from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to scale its payments platform in the country, the firm announced on Friday.  The FCA approved the f

Bitcoin and Ethereum consolidate after a strong start to 2026, while a select group of altcoins is posting significant weekly gains. Experts highlight this performance as a sign of capital rotation in

Australia\\\'s independent online safety regulator issued a warning Thursday about the rising use of Grok to generate sexualized images without consent, revealing her office has seen complaints about the

Three masked men broke into a home in Manosque, France, on Monday evening, tying up a woman at gunpoint and stealing a USB drive containing her partner\\\'s crypto data. The incident occurred at a resid

U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds clocked a three-day streak in outflows on Thursday, as new year optimism fades and traders reprice risk. Bitcoin ETFs recorded $205.5 million in outflows for t

Iran’s internet traffic cratered on Thursday as authorities imposed a nationwide shutdown amid escalating protests calling for regime change, according to data from Cloudflare and independent monitori

President Donald Trump ruled out a pardon for FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried on Thursday, seemingly drawing a line between his crypto-friendly agenda and the industry’s most infamous fraud case. Tr

A group of rival stakeholders met privately Thursday to hash out disagreements over crypto’s market structure bill, as the legislation hurtles towards a potentially make-or-break Senate vote penciled

Publicly traded Ethereum treasury firm SharpLink Gaming has deployed $170 million worth of ETH to Ethereum layer-2 scaling network, Linea, the firm announced on Thursday.  The Minneapolis, MN-based f

Boston Dynamics—whose YouTube videos of robots have both fascinated and terrified users for years—debuted a commercially deployable version of its Atlas humanoid robot at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, markin

The start of a new calendar year initially sent a jolt of optimism through the crypto markets as tokens rebounded, led by Bitcoin eclipsing $94,000 and Ethereum nearing $3,300 earlier this week. But

Researchers just shrank autonomous robots down to the size of a speck of dust. And the robots can think—sort of. A team from the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan built microscopi