The hackers from North Korea have used a very sophisticated method of deepfake video calls to target professionals in the cryptocurrency space, as was recently reported. In these types of attacks, hackers use malicious Telegram accounts and deepfake video calls on Zoom or Teams to call victims in the guise
January 27, 2026 2 mins read
Grayscale Investments has advanced in launching a Sui Exchange Traded Fund (ETF), amending its S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). As it intends to change the name of the trust to Grayscale Sui Staking ETF, under the ticker GSUI, which aims to be listed and
January 27, 2026 2 mins read
Kalshi, a prediction markets platform that is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), has launched a new office in Washington, D.C. to enhance its government relations and policy initiatives in the United States. The new office is part of Kalshi’s efforts to engage with federal and state policymakers
January 27, 2026 2 mins read
Bitmine Immersion Technologies, a publicly traded digital asset treasury management firm, has greatly improved its Ethereum staking offering by staking a total of 2,009,267 ETH worth approximately $5.9 billion. At the standard 2.81% Composite Ethereum Staking Rate (CESR), the staked Ether of the company is expected to generate annual staking
January 27, 2026 2 mins read
Kansas legislators have submitted Senate Bill 352, a legislative bill that proposes the creation of a Bitcoin and Digital Asset Reserve Fund in the Kansas State Treasury. This is a major move in the way that the U.S. government can potentially deal with cryptocurrencies under government financial laws. Senate Bill
January 23, 2026 2 mins read
The Chief Executive Officer of Circle, Jeremy Allaire, mentioned that USDC, a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar, was meant to operate independently from other traditional payments technology companies like Visa and Mastercard. In his speech on CNBC’s Squawk Box during the recently concluded Economic Forum held in Davos, Allaire
January 23, 2026 2 mins read
The US DOJ has announced its intention to dismiss the case against Nathaniel Chastain, a former official at the online marketplace for digital trading cards known as OpenSea, over an insider trading case against the defendant, whose deferred prosecution plea bargain is set to expire the following month. Charges filed
January 23, 2026 2 mins read
A joint announcement was made between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to host an event titled “SEC–CFTC Harmonization: U.S. Financial Leadership in the Crypto Era,” to be held on January 27, 2026. The joint forum to be hosted at the CFTC headquarters in
January 23, 2026 2 mins read
The Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI), the blockchain payment firm Fedi, along with the Brooks School Tech Policy Institute of Cornell University, has revealed the launch of a two-year empirical research collaboration to understand how Americans perceive financial privacy, the privacy trade-offs that they are willing to make, and how public
January 22, 2026 3 mins read
The co-founder of the cryptocurrency exchange platform Binance, namely Changpeng Zhao, made the announcement at the meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) that took place in Davos, Switzerland, and the announcement was that talks concerning tokenization have taken place with “probably a dozen” countries. Tokenization essentially means the process
January 22, 2026 2 mins read