NEAR, a blockchain platform, has launched the near.com super app, a crypto wallet and consumer app designed to make blockchain as easy to use as a regular financial app. The company states that the product aims to integrate crypto and AI into a user-friendly platform. Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR,
The US Federal Reserve is looking for codifying a rule eliminating “reputation risk” from banking supervision, which some have condemned for a wave of crypto debanking in the past few years. In the beginning, the Fed started making changes in June 2025 and publicised that it had directed its supervisors
Crypto investment funds continued to see withdrawals, extending five weeks of net outflows that have reached nearly $4 billion. According to the latest data from CoinShares, funds registered net outflows of $288 million last week alone. Market data indicate that institutional investors withdrew from crypto products, specifically spot Bitcoin exchange-traded
The Pi Network has rolled out a new utility-oriented token design framework for the Mainnet ecosystem, which highlights structured standards for the launch of future tokens. The move is a breakthrough for the network as it continues to develop its Open Network phase. Through the establishment of token standards, Pi
Arthur Hayes, a crypto investor, has highlighted a varied portfolio extending over commodities, defence stocks and digital assets, indicating a prolonged preference for hard assets with select cryptos. The ex-Chief Executive Officer of BitMEX posted on X some snapshots of his recent holdings, splitting them into traditional “stonks”, crypto assets
CME Group has announced plans to introduce 24-hour, seven-day-a-week trading for its cryptocurrency futures and options contracts starting May 29, 2026, subject to regulatory approval. The move aligns regulated crypto derivatives markets with the nonstop nature of digital asset spot trading. The world’s largest regulated derivatives marketplace will implement the
The President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Neel Kashkari, criticised the cryptocurrency industry on February 19, describing digital assets as utterly useless and defined by word salad marketing instead of functional utility. Kashkari attended the 2026 Midwest Economic Outlook Summit, in which he questioned the fundamental value proposition
An official from Australia who was admitted guilty to selling sensitive cyber tools to a broker from Russia, and the payment was done in crypto under contracts guaranteeing millions more, making crypto the core of a case prosecutors claimed endangered Five Eyes intelligence abilities. Prosecutors claimed Peter Williams, a native
Russia could begin a large-scale blocking of crypto exchange and major digital asset platform websites that are not officially registered in Russia as early as this summer. This move would restrict access for Russian users to foreign crypto services operating without local authorization, because of the tightening digital asset market
Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, said that retail investors are strongly resilient, as they are actively buying Ethereum and Bitcoin despite broader monthly price drops. The crypto market has been struggling, with Bitcoin down around 2% in the last 24 hours and trading at $68,841, bringing its monthly fall to
