OP Labs, the core development team behind Ethereum layer-2 network Optimism, is laying off 20 employees as the firm seeks to make quicker decisions and reduce overhead.  The decision “reflects a narr

European and U.S. authorities have announced the dismantling of a major malicious proxy operation tied to malware-infected home and small-business routers, freezing $3.5 million in cryptocurrency and

Bitcoin has seen a modest gain since the start of the Iran conflict, even as bonds and stocks have struggled—and a new note from digital asset manager CoinShares suggests that divergence is meaningful

The biggest bank in the United States has been roped into a lawsuit over a customer’s alleged crypto “Ponzi scheme,” as the Department of Justice recently described it, with one of the operation’s vic

The U.S. Senate passed a bill Thursday containing a ban on the development of an American CBDC, often called a “digital dollar”—but the legislation has some ways to go before it\\\'s signed into law. Th

Decentralized blockchain infrastructure promises to break monopolies, do away with gatekeepers and render opaque processes transparent—and one industry where it’s sorely needed is online advertising,

Shares in publicly traded blockchain and artificial intelligence firm Eightco (ORBS) are up more than 15% Thursday following news that the firm has raised $125 million to continue its expansion into A

BlackRock is launching its iShares Staked Ethereum Trust on Nasdaq Thursday morning, the firm told Decrypt ahead of the debut. The new exchange-traded product, which will trade under the ETHB ticker,

A Singapore court has sentenced Chinese national Zhang Xinghua, 38, to two years in jail after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to misuse a computer system and dealing with benefits of criminal conduct

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Bitcoin recovered above $70,000 on Thursday, even as fresh attacks on cargo vessels in the Gulf sent oil prices surging past $100 a barrel. Three more tankers were struck during the early Asian tradi

VanEck’s head of digital asset research, Matthew Sigel, said Bitcoin miners are uniquely positioned to benefit from a global scramble for electricity and computing power, arguing the sector has undera

Metaplanet is moving to broaden its Bitcoin strategy beyond simply accumulating the crypto, unveiling a new venture arm and investment initiative aimed at supporting Japan’s emerging Bitcoin infrastru

The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have signed a coordination pact to align oversight of financial markets and digital assets. Signed through a memora

Hackers hijacked the domain of the Solana-based token launch platform Bonk.fun on Wednesday, prompting the team to warn users not to interact with the site after attackers deployed a wallet-draining p