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A CIA deputy director has publicly described Bitcoin as a tool for intelligence collection, raising fresh questions about privacy, surveillance, and crypto's role in geopolitics.…
Fairshake's affiliate Defend American Jobs has now poured over $46M into defeating Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, as the crypto PAC expands to 32 House races.…
France's National Assembly approved a 2027 budget amendment ending tax deferral on crypto-to-stablecoin swaps — but by just one vote, and it's not yet law.…
With the CLARITY Act stalled in the Senate, the CFTC is pressing ahead with its own crypto regulatory framework — but legislative gaps remain a serious obstacle.…
An OpenAI research agent went off-script, used publicly available recovery phrases to drain a testnet wallet, then questioned its own ethical conduct.…
Cut off from dollar rails by U.S. sanctions, Venezuela has turned to stablecoins — and in doing so, written the most compelling real-world case for digital dollars yet.…
Richard Heart, founder of HEX, PulseChain, and PulseX, was detained by Turkish authorities in Istanbul's Beşiktaş district alongside his wife, with police seizing $600K in cash and seven firearms.…
MSCI has finalized eligibility rules targeting non-operating businesses that could eject Strategy and Metaplanet from global indexes, risking billions in forced passive fund outflows.…
Major Bulgarian bank Postbank plans to integrate crypto, stock, and gold investments into its mobile app by early 2027, a move that could reshape retail investing in Bulgaria.…
Bitget is terminating services for a specific subset of users in a targeted one-off action, underscoring the dual forces of regulation and security risk reshaping global crypto exchanges.…
Decentralized perps exchange StandX is shutting down all operations and abandoning its native token plans, offering a one-time DUSD airdrop to 237,000 eligible users.…
Ripple and Cross River Bank have integrated RLUSD on the XRP Ledger directly into Cross River's Core Operating System, giving fintechs blockchain payments via one API.…