Robinhood’s cryptocurrency trading volume climbed 61% month over month to $17.5 billion in August 2026, yet the total still sat 38% below the same month a year earlier, according to the brokerage’s August monthly operating report published on Thursday. The figures underline a split picture for the company’s crypto business: sequential momentum is improving, but […]
The US Senate returns to session this week with a narrow window to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act, a bill that many in the cryptocurrency industry see as a critical step toward establishing federal rules for digital assets. If the legislation fails to overcome a procedural hurdle, the path to becoming law […]
The German Federal Ministry of Finance has reportedly drafted a proposal to introduce a 25% flat-rate tax on cryptocurrency trading profits, a significant shift from the country’s current policy that exempts crypto gains from taxation after a one-year holding period. The draft, seen by German newspaper Die Welt, suggests the new tax would apply to […]
The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has reportedly opened discussions with prediction market companies about whether to lift a ban that has barred retail investors from accessing platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi since 2019. According to a Friday report from The Times, the regulator is weighing whether to relax the prohibition on binary […]
Bitcoin sidechain Liquid has suspended operations following the withdrawal of approximately 4,000 Bitcoin — valued at roughly $320 million — from its federation wallet by actors claiming to be white-hat hackers. The incident, disclosed on Sunday, prompted Liquid to disable bridge nodes and halt new transactions while exchanges paused or prepared to pause L-BTC deposits […]
Ethereum-compatible layer-1 network Harmony has proposed sunsetting its blockchain and migrating its native ONE token to Ethereum, seven years after launching its mainnet. The proposal, announced on Sunday, comes weeks after an exploit that forced the network to plan a rollback of over 109,000 transactions. Harmony’s migration proposal Under the non-binding proposal, Harmony would take […]
In a saga that has captivated blockchain analysts, an early Bitcoin holder—dormant for nearly 12 years—moved $1 million worth of BTC through a major custodian, received nearly the same amount back, and then deliberately destroyed it. The May 2026 burn of 20 BTC is part of a broader pattern involving five wallets that collectively sent […]
Cronos, the blockchain network associated with Crypto.com, halted its operations on Sunday after an exploit targeting the decentralized lending protocol Tectonic involved an estimated $75 million. The network was paused while investigators assessed the situation, with most of the affected assets still on-chain at the time of writing. In a separate development, Michael Saylor’s latest […]
Tokenized equities recorded a sharp acceleration in onchain activity over the past month, with monthly transfer volume climbing more than 415% to $29.5 billion, according to data from RWA.xyz. The surge reflects growing adoption of tokenized stocks across major crypto platforms and expanding use cases beyond simple trading. Onchain metrics show broad growth Monthly active […]
The native token of synthetic dollar protocol Ethena (ENA) climbed more than 10% after the Ethena Foundation unveiled a governance proposal that would direct the majority of protocol revenue toward token buybacks, alongside a completed buyout of locked tokens from certain early investors. Fee switch and buyback proposal The Ethena Foundation opened a vote on […]
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