A 54-year-old Utah man was sentenced to three years in federal prison for operating an unlicensed cash-to-crypto business and defrauding investors of nearly $3 million. Brian Garry Sewell of Washingt

Elon Musk’s X is taking action against projects that seek to financialize users’ attention on the platform using digital assets, Head of Product Nikita Bier declared on Thursday. “We will no longer a

A viral post featuring a video reportedly made with Kling AI’s 2.6 Motion Control took social media by storm this week as a clip by Brazilian content creator Eder Xavier showed him flawlessly swapping

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), the top Democrat on the U.S. House Financial Services Committee, was among lawmakers who blasted the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday over its handling of enfo

As Iran’s economy reels from deepening unrest and a collapsing currency, cryptocurrency activity tied to the country surged to nearly $7.8 billion in 2025, according to a new report from blockchain an

Chinese tech giant Baidu just updated it’s state-of-the-art AI model—and it’s apparently pretty good. The company\\\'s ERNIE-5.0-0110 scored 1,460 points on LMArena\\\'s Text leaderboard, landing at #8 glo

Lightning struck twice this week for solo Bitcoin miners, with each of them earning roughly $300,000 worth of BTC. Early Thursday morning, a solo miner landed a 3.157 BTC reward (including fees), wor

Less than a day after Coinbase dramatically pulled support for the Senate’s crypto market structure bill, derailing a vote that would have sent the legislation to the Senate floor, the crypto industry

NIP Group Inc., the publicly traded parent company of long-running esports team organization Ninjas in Pyjamas, announced Thursday that it mined approximately 151.4 Bitcoin—about $14.5 million worth—d

CME Group, operator of the world\\\'s largest financial derivatives exchange, will add Cardano, Chainlink, and Stellar futures contracts to its crypto offerings on February 9. The new ADA, LINK, and LXM

BitMine Immersion Technologies, the Ethereum treasury firm chaired by Fundstrat’s Tom Lee, unveiled a $200 million investment on Thursday in Beast Industries, a company founded by YouTube creator Jimm

Elon Musk’s X is taking action against projects that seek to financialize users’ attention on the platform using digital assets, Head of Product Nikita Bier declared on Thursday. “We will no longer a

A newly discovered strain of ransomware is using Polygon smart contracts for proxy server address rotation and distribution to infiltrate devices, cybersecurity firm Group‑IB warned on Thursday. The

MetaMask is continuing its expansion beyond the Ethereum ecosystem, announcing Thursday that it has added native support for the Tron blockchain after previous moves to add in chains like Bitcoin and

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