The Department of Justice has indicted a supervisory special agent of the FBI for theft of nearly $1 million in cryptocurrency during the investigation of a crime. According to court filings, Patrick Steven Yaroch, a counterintelligence agent with a Top Secret clearance, allegedly abused his official position to move cryptocurrencies
Mastercard has finalized its acquisition of the stablecoin payment infrastructure provider BVNK, completing the deal worth $1.8 billion. This deal is another significant milestone on the way to the expansion of digital assets payment capabilities across the globe. Through the integration of Mastercard’s global payments network and BVNK’s blockchain infrastructure,
A new governance proposal from NEAR Protocol will bring a radical change. Especially to the way NEAR manages its treasuries and future economic strategy of tokens. The proposal was brought forth by one of the co-founders of NEAR, Illia Polosukhin, on August 3, 2026, through the NEAR Governance Forum. It
A new Web3 authentication mechanism that enables users to register, sign in, and deposit funds using a cryptocurrency wallet has been introduced by 1win, a cryptocurrency entertainment platform. Passwords, wallet address copying, and email registration are no longer required thanks to the new verification method. The functionality, which supports Trust Wallet,
The company has pushed back its IPO plans in order to concentrate on compliance and corporate governance. According to the South Korean cryptocurrency trading platform, Bithumb now plans to list its shares in 2028, abandoning its earlier plans for listing within either 2025 or 2026. The change in strategy was
OIP-9 (Orbs Improvement Proposal 9), the project’s first official community governance vote to create the Orbs DAO and present its governance architecture, was launched today by Orbs, the decentralized Layer-3 blockchain infrastructure focusing on sophisticated on-chain trade. If the proposal is accepted by the community, it will establish the first
Binance is improving its listing policies further through the deletion of six crypto assets from its spot trading platform in August 2026. The platform announced that ACX, HFT, PIVX, PYR, VANRY, and VIC would be delisted from its spot trading platform on August 17, 2026, after its recent analysis of
The Senate released Monday’s schedule without including the CLARITY Act, pushing the cryptocurrency legislation into a critical week. The focus has moved away from the policy debate to the procedural aspect of the process amid efforts by supporters to beat the clock in the run-up to the August recess period
GoMining, a worldwide Bitcoin ecosystem that assists individuals all over the world in unlocking Bitcoin’s full potential, has integrated Uphold’s Platform as a Service in order to enable future development and provide a better customer experience to its global community of five million members. GoMining’s flagship digital mining solution makes
In order to provide developers with a direct method for developing sovereign onchain applications that maintain user data encrypted while it is being utilized, Fhenix and Canopy are incorporating confidential computation into the Canopy Stack. It is no longer necessary for teams to put together a separate cryptography stack or to
