Pencil Finance completes a $1 million on-chain student lending cycle in Southeast Asia. The milestone helps link the blockchain-based lending services to students who traditionally do not have access to financing options. Pencil provided the funds as a lender and managed to track the whole lending cycle on-chain. The borrowers
The Pocket Bitcoin has now widened its August security breach scope following its full forensic analysis. According to the Swiss Bitcoin company, there were two data sets in connection to the security issue involving 5,411 users. While the first dataset included bank transactions records for 5,120 users, the second one
The leading hardware wallet company, Ledger SAS, is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York over an alleged $1.9 million cryptocurrency loss. Douglas Kim filed the complaint on August 27, 2026, seeking at least $500 million in damages. According to
Paul Atkins, the chair of the SEC, has framed the Regulation Crypto Assets as an answer to years of ambiguity. The regulation will make the American market more welcoming for crypto-based firms and innovators. According to Atkins, the former administration was too aggressive in its enforcement efforts and thus pushed
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)is seeking a dismissal of the lawsuit filed by CME Group against Kalshi’s Bitcoin perpetual futures in a federal court. The Commission asserts that CME does not have standing because the Commission has failed to demonstrate any actual competitive injury caused by its approval of
Crypto Council for Innovation is advocating for a modernized framework for ETP by the Securities and Exchange Commission. CCI is calling for more clarity and predictability in the process of obtaining approvals for innovative ETPs. The suggestions from CCI were presented on August 31 concerning the framework for novel ETFs
The G20 indicated an increased emphasis on digital asset innovation while remaining cognizant of maintaining financial stability in its approach to policy formulation. Financial ministers and central bank governors saw the opportunity that digital financial innovation provides as a means of achieving broader economic growth. This new emphasis has come
The committed equity facility of Hyperliquid Strategies with Chardan Capital Markets has been increased to $2.5 billion from $1 billion. This development allows the digital asset treasury company to have more flexibility to secure funds by issuing stocks in the future. The information has been revealed by the company in
The company unlocked 1 billion XRP from escrow on September 1st through 3 transactions. These were 500 million XRP, 400 million XRP, and 100 million XRP, respectively. This was revealed by the blockchain monitoring account Whale Alert in relation to the XRP that was unlocked from Ripple-controlled escrow accounts. This
Wallets affiliated with the North Korea-based Lazarus Group have sent over $30 million via Hyperliquid, according to chain analysis from Arkham. This information was revealed on August 31 by Arkham researcher Emmett Gallic. He identified the transactions carried out within about three weeks. These funds went through HyperUnit, where the
