Bybit Restricts EEA: Who’s Affected? Urgent Update!
Bybit EEA Restrictions Show Crypto Exchanges Are Running Into Harder EU Rules Bybit says it will gradually restrict some services for users in the European Economic Area. That means users in 29 countries are affected, which makes this more than a quiet policy tweak buried in a help-cent ...
J.P. Morgan Expands Blockchain Network for Cross-Border Payments
J.P. Morgan Expands Blockchain Settlement Network. Crypto People Should Notice. J.P. Morgan is adding five currencies to Kinexys, its blockchain payments platform, including the Chinese renminbi and Japanese yen. On paper, yes, this sounds like another dull bank infrastructure update. I' ...
Wall Street’s BNY Expands Stablecoin Services with Circle’s USDC
BNY Expands USDC Services as Institutions Get More Comfortable With Stablecoins Wall Street's BNY is adding stablecoin services for institutional clients, starting with Circle's USDC. Pay attention here. Crypto has not suddenly "gone mainstream" overnight, and anyone saying that is getti ...
Chainalysis Proposes Blockchain Tracing Standards: A New Era?
Chainalysis Proposes Blockchain Tracing Standards, Raising Regulatory Stakes Chainalysis, the crypto analytics company, wants common standards for tracing blockchain transactions. The proposal, announced Monday, would give investigators a shared way to describe how funds ...
Ukraine Transfers $8.3M Seized Crypto: Strategic Reserve Plans?
Ukraine moves $8.3 million in seized crypto into state control Ukraine has moved $8.3 million in seized crypto into state management for the first time. By crypto-market standards, that is not a shock number. My take: the custody setup is the story. The Prosecutor General's Office says ...
Vitalik Buterin: Crypto’s ‘Most Powerful Idea’ Not Ready Yet
Vitalik Buterin: Obfuscation's "Galactic" Cost Keeps Crypto's Holy Grail Out of Reach Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum's co-founder, is treating obfuscation as one of crypto's strongest unfinished ideas. My take: it is also one of the least usable ones right now. The claim is simple enough. If ...
FundBank Becomes IRACE Digital: Bridging Traditional Finance & Crypto
IRACE Digital rebrand points to more institutional crypto adoption "IRACE Digital's rebrand and Tenet Bank acquisition give institutions another way into crypto without making them bolt five vendors together." ...
Dubai Awards 50th VASP License to RWA Tokenization Platform Tribe
Dubai's 50th VASP License: A Bullish Signal for RWA Tokenization Dubai has issued its 50th Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) license, this time to Tribe Tokenisation FZE. That matters because Tribe works on real world asset (RWA) tokenization, one of the few crypto u ...
BitMEX Shake-Up: CEO, CFO & Head of Growth Removed!
BitMEX executive purge points to crypto winter pressure BitMEX has pushed out its CEO, CFO, and head of growth at the same time. My take: that is not a normal reshuffle with a cleaner title. Peter Wilkinson is now CEO, and the move reads like cost cutting by a company trying to survive a ...
Pump.fun Surges 12%: Record Holders, But 2 Metrics Cap Gains
Pump.fun's 12% Surge: More Holders, Weaker Numbers Pump.fun's token, $PUMP, rose 12% as its holder count reached 122,440 and TVL climbed, even as the platform's usage numbers weakened. $PUMP gained 12% over the pas ...
