Washington may publicly reject a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), but quiet efforts to explore the framework for one are already underway, according to Timothy Massad, former chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Speaking at the Digital Money Summit 2026 in London, Massad said authorities are privately examining CBDC-related infrastructure while publicly…
A bill now moving through Washington would make Bitcoin a formal US government reserve asset for the first time in history. Introduced on March 30, 2026, the Mined in America Act would direct the US Treasury to accumulate up to one million Bitcoin over 20 years This would mark a policy shift so significant that…
Is BTC poised for a collapse to under $55,000? The primary cryptocurrency, which performed quite well towards the end of April and beginning of May, has tumbled by 5% over the past week, sparking fears that the bottom of the bear cycle has yet to be reached. One popular analyst believes that its eventual…
Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau and Europol have secured another 500 BTC tied to Clifton Collins, bringing recovered funds from the dormant wallet cluster to 1,000 BTC. Summary Bitcoin seizure grew after Ireland and Europol secured another 500 BTC from Clifton Collins-linked wallets. Arkham data shows 1,000 BTC have moved from the dormant entity since March…
Zama, the company that has spent years quietly building fully homomorphic encryption tools for blockchains, just bought TokenOps, a token distribution platform. The goal: let institutions run vesting schedules, airdrops, and payroll entirely encrypted, without giving up the transparency guarantees that make blockchains useful in the first place. Every time a project distributes tokens today,…
The crypto market is struggling during this midweek trading session in May 2020, 2026, with the Bitcoin price struggling to reclaim $78,000 after a $5,000 slump from $82,000 just last week. ETH USD is in a similar position, down -0.2% on the day but trading for $2,120, with analysts warning that a loss of $2,000…
The company is well within the top 20 in this list. CNBC has published its updated list for the top 50 disruptor companies for 2026, and there’s only one blockchain- or crypto-related firm in it – Ripple. The entity behind XRP was described as ‘new money,’ and it’s positioned as the 16th most disruptive…
Tether and Gnosis have participated in a $4.4 million seed round for Sorted Wallet as the crypto firms continue expanding stablecoin payment infrastructure across emerging markets. Summary Tether and Gnosis have backed a $4.4 million seed round for Sorted Wallet to expand crypto access across emerging markets. Sorted Wallet said its lightweight 10MB app has…
The stablecoin market is worth well over $100B. Non-dollar stablecoins account for roughly 0.2% of it. The dollar’s quiet monopoly USD-denominated stablecoins account for over 95% of total stablecoin market capitalization, according to analysis from the Bank for International Settlements and the European Central Bank. Tether’s USDT and Circle’s USDC are the two gravitational forces…
The CFTC has sued Minnesota to block a new law that would ban prediction markets from Aug. 1, setting up a court fight over state gambling rules and federal market authority. Summary CFTC sued Minnesota one day after Walz signed the nation’s first outright prediction markets ban. The regulator wants an injunction before Aug. 1,…
