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BitMart insolvency: OpenGradient funds stuck, raising exchange risk concerns BitMart, a crypto exchange, may be insolvent. Market maker OpenGradient says its funds are trapped on the platform and cannot be withdrawn. The report surfaced about a week after BitMart allegedly asked users t ...

Sui Launches Tessera for B2B Payments, Eyes Corporate Crypto Adoption Sui has launched Tessera, a closed network for business-to-business (B2B) settlements. Companies can make confidential on-chain payments without publishing every detail. My read: the stablecoin angle is interesting, bu ...

BNB Smart Chain Malware Attacks Put Crypto Wallets at Risk "Malware operators are using BNB Smart Chain infrastructure to target crypto wallets and exchange accounts." Microsoft has found malware campaigns that use BNB Smart Chain to send commands to infected computers. ...

Ruble Dollar Euro Exchange Rates Plunge: What It Means for Crypto The Russian ruble took a beating today. Hard. The dollar hit 83 rubles for the first time since March, while the euro climbed above 95. Why does this matter? Because those two exchange rates point to renewed trouble in Rus ...

109 Crypto Project Closures in 2026 Suggest a Tougher Market, Not a Collapse At least 109 crypto projects shut down in 2026. It’s an ugly number—especially for DeFi. Still, it doesn’t prove the whole market is coming apart. Most postmortems blame fading hype. That’s only half right. Exc ...

Wildberries Messenger Launch Speculation: A Russian Adoption Signal? Wildberries may be preparing to launch a messenger. Or it may not. Right now, the case rests on circumstantial evidence: the Russian e-commerce company has reportedly registered dozens of related domains, including wb-m ...

NFT Founder Accused of Defrauding Investors as Regulators Step Up Scrutiny A new NFT fraud case shows just how closely U.S. authorities are watching crypto projects. Taj Tarsha, founder of "Few and Far," could face up to 20 years in prison for allegedly taking more than ...

Nomura Backs ZIGChain as Gulf Lending Attracts Crypto Interest Nomura has invested "several million dollars" in layer-one blockchain ZIGChain through its Laser Digital subsidiary. Wire reports say the money is meant to improve private credit markets in Gulf countries. T ...

ElizaOS Token Dead: Founder Closes Project, Raising Regulatory Eyebrows Eliza Labs founder Shaw Walters has declared the ElizaOS token "dead" and shut down the project's fund. A collective lawsuit emptied what remained of the treasury. That was it. Investors are now stuck with tokens ca ...

Cloudflare Wallets for AI Agents Could Give Stablecoins a New Use Cloudflare's new wallets for AI agents could speed up stablecoin adoption by putting digital payments inside autonomous software. That sounds abstract. It isn't. Picture an AI agent paying for an API or an article without ...