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Standard Chartered backs GSR, and bank crypto adoption gets real Standard Chartered just put equity into crypto market maker GSR. Not a partnership badge. Not another "exploring blockchain" press release. It's the first time a global systemically important bank (G-SIB) has taken a direc ...

Sevilla FC Players Crypto Scam Hits €24M as Shirtum Probe Widens The Sevilla FC players crypto scam is a Spanish criminal investigation into six former Sevilla FC footballers accused of promoting Shirtum, a sports-NFT and BNB Chain token venture that allegedly took at least €24 ...

Chainlink Leads Best Privacy Coins 2026 by Developer Activity as Monero Slides to No. 9 Chainlink ranks first among privacy-focused crypto projects by 30-day developer activity in 2026, per Santiment's GitHub commit data, ahead of Monero, Zcash, and Dash. I'll be honest: an oracle proje ...

Trump's "8 or 9 More Years" Remark Reignites Trump Crypto Policy 2028 Bets Amid White House Lockdown Trump floated staying in office "8 or 9 more years" on stage at a White House event while the perimeter was sealed and gunfire was reported a few blocks away. He kept talking. ...

Trump goes after Powell again, and Bitcoin's liquidity trade keeps eating it up Trump is leaning on Jerome Powell again, and that pressure feeds the same rate-cut story that has carried Bitcoin through 2025. The president called the Fed Chair "Too Late" and "a disaster ...

Ondo Finance DTCC Tokenization Push Pulls Wall Street Giants Into RWA Race Ondo Finance just got a seat at a DTCC-led tokenization working group next to BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Franklin Templeton, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Citadel Securities, NYSE Group, Circl ...

TON Network Fees Reduced Six-Fold as Telegram Prepares Validator Takeover TON network fees just dropped six-fold to near-zero, and Telegram is moving to become the chain's largest validator within 2-3 weeks. Pavel Durov calls this step three of seven in the "Make TON Great Again" roadma ...

CME Launches AVAX and SUI Futures, Opening Wall Street's Door to Layer-1 Altcoin Bets CME Group just dropped cash-settled futures on Avalanche (AVAX) and Sui (SUI). It's the first regulated U.S. venue where institutions can hedge or speculate on these two layer-1 tokens. The contracts w ...

Rain Mastercard Crypto Card Deal Signals Stablecoin Push Into Daily Spending The Rain–Mastercard partnership is a deal to issue payment cards that let users spend stablecoins directly at point-of-sale, integrating crypto settlement rails into Mastercard's global merchant network ...

ZachXBT Accuses Tokenlon DEX Scam Ring, Threatens Public Campaign Against imToken Tokenlon is a Taiwan/China-origin decentralized exchange built by the same team behind the imToken self-custody wallet. On-chain investigator ZachXBT just publicly accused it of processing illicit flows ti ...