Iran’s crypto mining industry is facing a widespread illegal mining crisis, with authorities estimating that over 95% of the country’s 427,000 active mining devices are operating without authorization.
Akbar Hasan Beklou, CEO of the Tehran Province Electricity Distribution Company, said on Sunday t

Romania’s National Office for Gambling (ONJN) has blacklisted leading prediction market Polymarket, calling it an unlicensed gambling platform operating outside state oversight.
The decision follows what regulators described as a surge in crypto-based betting during Romania’s presidential and

Opinion by: Morgan Krupetsky, vice president of Onchain Finance at Ava Labs
On the heels of the GENIUS Act’s passing, the next era of stablecoin usage is being driven by a growing cohort of fintechs and neobanks — integrating stablecoins into their product and service offerings, going where

A widely used crypto market sentiment indicator has remained in uncertain territory despite improved clarity on trade relations between US and China, following US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a trade deal this week.
However, some crypto analysts suggest the announcement could soon

Bitcoin could be in the middle of an unofficial initial coin offering (ICO) as OG coin holders rotate out and fresh blood scoops up the tokens, distributing the supply across a broader number of people, macro analyst and Wall Street old hand Jordi Visser says
In a Saturday episode of

European Central Bank (ECB) president Christine Lagarde released a statement on Friday touting the digital euro, a central bank digital currency (CBDC), as a unifying force in the European Union (EU) and said the ECB is aiming to launch it “as early as possible.”
“As much as banknotes will

Maximal extractable value (MEV), the process of miners or validators reordering transactions in a block to extract profits, is preventing financial institutions from adopting decentralized finance (DeFi), which hurts retail users, according to Aditya Palepu, CEO of DEX Labs, the lead contributor to

Opinion by: Louise Ivan, co-founder and CEO of Ryder
Step aside, maximalists. Crypto isn’t the domain of early adopters and philosophically driven “hodlers” anymore. The demographics of crypto usage are shifting fast, with stablecoins, in particular, leading the charge.
Forget about newcomers

Spot Solana exchange-traded funds (ETFs) continue to attract investor interest, recording their fourth straight day of inflows amid “capital rotation” from Bitcoin and Ether funds.
According to data from SoSoValue, spot Solana (SOL) ETFs added $44.48 million on Friday, bringing cumulative inflows

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Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest has expanded its bet on Bullish, the digital asset exchange that recently went public on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker BLSH, acquiring over $5 million worth of shares across multiple

Tech entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk is set to launch a standalone messaging app called “X Chat” to compete with Telegram and WhatsApp, with a rollout expected within the next few months
“On X, we just rebuilt the entire messaging stack into what’s called ‘X Chat,’” said Musk during The

A vote from the Senate Commerce Committee on a bill aimed at deregulating crypto mining in New Hampshire was split on Thursday, after senators reported public feedback on the bill had surged since it was last debated.
After being deadlocked twice, once on advancing the bill and again on rejecting i

Although still in its “infancy,” quantum computing could pose a threat to Bitcoin and other proof-of-work algorithms in the near future, according to Amit Mehra, a partner at venture capital firm Borderless Capital.
When asked what trends Borderless Capital was following, Mehra, speaking to

A US appellate court has ruled against Custodia Bank, the crypto-friendly institution founded by Caitlin Long, siding with the Federal Reserve in a lower court decision.
In a Friday judgment in the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, three circuit judges affirmed a lower court ruling in the