Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Tazapay processes $25 billion in annualized volume and offers payout rails across 100-plus markets, extending Circle’s USDC payments reach.[Update 13:30 UTC, Sept. 8: Adds the $400 million purchase price and stock payment terms disclosed in Circle’s...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Humo Digital will test HUMO payments with more than 20 merchants under a sandbox jointly overseen by NAPP and Uzbekistan’s central bank.Uzbekistan has launched a pilot to test payments with a som-pegged stablecoin backed by government securities.&...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Ledger and Trezor said researchers have a responsibility to publish their findings if vendors fail to fix bugs within an agreed disclosure window.Hardware wallet makers Ledger and Trezor called for more responsible disclosure of security vulnerabilit...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Growing demand for tokenized stock trading may drive the Robinhood chain’s annual fees to $160 million by 2028, predicted analysts from Bernstein.Trading platform Robinhood’s blockchain network is expected to generate as much as $160 million in annua...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Unrealized gains by whale speculators hit their highest levels on record last week, per data going back to 2016.Bitcoin (BTC) whales have more reason to sell than at any time in Bitcoin’s recent history as their unrealized profits hit records.Key poi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Cronos’s post-mortem put the Tectonic exploit’s affected borrowing at $120.4 million, with 7.6% transferred off-network before validators intervened.Layer-1 blockchain Cronos said $9.19 million left its blockchain before validators halted the network...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Financial market operator SIX and payment app TWINT have joined numerous banks in the sandbox seeking to develop a Swiss franc-based stablecoin.Nine Swiss companies have begun sandbox tests of CHFD, a Swiss franc stablecoin, for programmable payments...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
AUSTRAC said its yearlong sweep included canceled, suspended and unrenewed registrations, while its action against GetCoins helped disrupt organized investment scams.Australia’s financial intelligence regulator said it canceled, suspended or refused...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
The actors returned 85% of the Bitcoin withdrawn from Liquid’s federation wallet following the security incident.Purported white-hat hackers returned 3,400 Bitcoin worth about $270 million to the Liquid Federation wallet after withdrawing roughly $32...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Companies offering binary options for retail investors have been barred from selling, marketing and distributing products in the UK since 2019 following a directive from the FCA.The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) reportedly has reached out to...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Ethereum’s Hegotá upgrade will center on FOCIL and Frame Transactions as developers weigh dozens of other proposed changes for inclusion.The Ethereum Foundation has identified two “must ship” proposals for the Hegotá upgrade, prioritizing censorship...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Hunter Biden will reportedly distribute 200 million of the LAPTOP token to his substack subscribers, members of a mailing list and investors in President Donald Trump’s memecoin.Hunter Biden, son of former US President Joe Biden, announced that he pl...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Polish prosecutors charged Romana Ż. with organized crime and misappropriation offenses involving $2.1 million in Zondacrypto user funds.Polish prosecutors investigating cryptocurrency exchange Zondacrypto, have formally charged an individual, identi...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Bitcoin’s struggle to break $80,000 comes as markets price in a growing chance of a September rate hike, putting monetary conditions back in focus. Crypto fund flows are becoming increasingly sensitive to changes in the US interest-rate outlook, with...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Capital B’s latest Bitcoin purchase was its largest in nearly a year, pushing the French company ahead of H100 Group among publicly traded BTC holders.French Bitcoin treasury company Capital B has acquired 376 Bitcoin (BTC) for 25.3 million euros ($2...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Bitcoin price fell 2% in low-liquidity conditions as the US Labor Day holiday saw $80,000 once again slip from bulls’ grasp.Bitcoin (BTC) drifted lower on Monday as a low-liquidity environment erased the weekend’s gains above $80,000.Key points:Read...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
ZEC gained 45% over the past week, extending its rally since Grayscale converted its Zcash Trust into an ETF that began trading Aug. 25.Zcash (ZEC) climbed to its highest price since 2016, extending a rally that has pushed the privacy-focused cryptoc...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
This week’s CPI and PPI prints, along with the Fed’s Sept. 16 rate decision, could determine whether Bitcoin can secure $80,000 as a support level. Bitcoin (BTC) sees its first weekly close above $80,000 since early May as clouds gather over the US i...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Citi and DBS completed their first tokenized cross-border transfer over the weekend, using Swift’s blockchain-based ledger to circumvent the constraints of traditional banking hours.Singapore-based financial services group DBS and American financial...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
A central bank proposal would pause new payment operator registrations while requiring enhanced monitoring and transaction limits for arrangements involving virtual asset firms.The Philippines’ central bank has proposed freezing new payment-system op...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Galaxy said 82% of Bitcoin stolen across all Coldcard attacks remains in the original addresses, with 18% moved in apparent laundering.The exploiter behind the third wave of the Coldcard wallet hack has moved about 45% of their Bitcoin (BTC) haul, ro...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Fomo generated $1.76 million on Friday, beating Pump.fun’s $1.1 million, though the memecoin launchpad remains ahead over 30 days.Social trading platform Fomo generated more daily revenue than memecoin launchpad Pump.fun on Friday.Fomo generated $1.7...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
The actors told Blockstream they would return most of the 4,000 BTC after the Elements vulnerability is patched across the network.[Update, Sept. 7, 2026, 7:30 UTC: Added correspondence between the “white hats” and Blockstream.]Bitcoin sidechain Liqu...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Harmony proposed sunsetting its layer-1 blockchain and migrating ONE to Ethereum, weeks after an exploit led to plans to discard 109,000 transactions.Ethereum-compatible layer-1 network Harmony proposed sunsetting its blockchain and migrating its nat...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Purported white hat hackers have taken 4000 Bitcoin from the Liquid sidechain in a major security breach. The Bitcoin ETFs see the best three weeks of inflows in 2026.A shade under 4000 Bitcoin worth $319 million has been taken from Liquid Network —...
