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Nine Swiss companies have begun sandbox tests of CHFD, a Swiss franc stablecoin, for programmable payments and digital asset settlement. The pilot will examine whether programmable payments can reduce fraud on online marketplaces, support fair access to event
Australia’s financial intelligence regulator said it canceled, suspended or refused to renew 45 crypto and remittance registrations over the past year as it intensified scrutiny of high-risk payment businesses. On Monday, the Australian Transaction Reports and
Purported white-hat hackers returned 3,400 Bitcoin worth about $270 million to the Liquid Federation wallet after withdrawing roughly $320 million from the Bitcoin sidechain’s reserves. On Monday, JAN3 CEO and former Blockstream executive Samson Mow said the r
Jakub Pachocki is calling for mandatory safety standards as OpenAI finds it harder to monitor advanced AI models’ reasoning.
A Gamers Nexus investigation found LG sets scanning every device on a home network and capturing microphone audio with the screen off, four months after LG promised Texas regulators it had cleaned up its tracking.
The “White hat” party that withdrew nearly 4,000 bitcoin from the Liquid Network federation wallet on Sunday returned 3,400 BTC to the wallet on Monday. About 598 BTC, or 15% of the consolidated pile, stayed at the same holder address as an implied bounty fee
Itaú, Nubank, and Banco do Brasil now sell more than a dozen tokens each to retail clients, even as none of them touch crypto with their own balance sheet.
The Ethereum Foundation has identified two “must ship” proposals for the Hegotá upgrade, prioritizing censorship resistance and more flexible account authentication as it narrows the fork’s scope. The ranking evaluated 62 proposed Ethereum Improvement Proposal
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) reportedly has reached out to prediction market companies as part of discussions over whether the regulator would loosen a ban for retail investors, in place since 2019. According to a Friday report from The Times, th
Nearly 600 BTC remains outstanding after Blockstream told the actors in an on-chain message that Liquid’s bridge nodes had been patched.
Biden's LAPTOP meme coin drops this week. Most crypto traders out there so far don't seem too enthused.
The Iran conflict has increased demand for digital assets to preserve and transfer wealth, while Gulf crypto businesses have kept operating through disruption, the Bitcoin Policy Institute says.