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Augustus, a startup building a federally chartered clearing bank designed around stablecoins and programmable money, has closed a $180 million Series B round that values the company at $1 bil
Institutional investors are moving past smart contract audits as the primary measure of crypto security, after conventional trust signals consistently failed to identify which projects would
US President Donald Trump reportedly agreed on Monday night to an ethics provision for the CLARITY Act, a step that could clear one of the last hurdles standing between the crypto market stru
Telebiz went live today with a Telegram-first CRM designed around a claim most sales tools cannot make: it never touches the messages sitting inside a user's chats. The premise reflects how b
Ripple spent the first half of 2026 building faster than $XRP could keep up with. From January through June, the XRP Ledger set records for network activity, tokenized assets and stablecoin a
Real-world asset infrastructure provider REAL has become a member of Blockchain for Europe (BC4EU), the Brussels industry body that works with EU policymakers and academics on regulatory fram
SBI Holdings is a Tokyo-listed financial conglomerate that has spent 10 years turning itself into one of Japan's largest regulated crypto operators. Its exchange passed 2 million registered a
Every memecoin cycle crowns a favorite, and this July’s coverage keeps circling one: PENGU, the token attached to the Pudgy Penguins brand. The pitch sounds different from the usual dog coin.
The language that decides crypto’s biggest bill finally exists: a ban on federal officials issuing digital assets, enforced only by the Justice Department, with penalties of $250,000 a day, a
Strategy is one of nine founding members of a newly launched Bitcoin Security Consortium, a group of leading financial institutions and Bitcoin companies that has pledged an aggregate $15 mil
Why Did the SEC Settle With Coinbase? The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission agreed to pay $150,000 in legal fees to settle a Coinbase lawsuit seeking internal agency records from the pe
Hester Peirce said crypto vaults require case-by-case review because their structure determines whether securities laws apply. Peirce said onchain lending strategies may trigger SEC oversight
