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Iris Rabaya Au, 37, of Irvine, California, has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for failing to report over $2.6 million in illegal income to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). T
The Zcash Foundation has denied any connection to a new token project called ZRC-20 after a post claimed that Zcash had launched its own token standard. The issue began with a post from the @
Crypto markets delivered a sharp reminder on September 21 of what happens when too many traders lean the same way at the wrong time. A broad price surge across digital assets wiped out $928.8
How Stellar Reaches Agreement Without Mining or Staking @StellarOrg runs its native asset on the Stellar Consensus Protocol (SCP), first introduced in 2015 by David Mazières (@dmazieres). Maz
@circle has launched Digital Asset-Backed Borrowing, a new service that lets institutional clients access dollar liquidity against their Bitcoin holdings without having to sell them. The prod
Hana Bank has signed an agreement with Upbit Global to develop Travel Rule infrastructure for digital asset transfers, extending its work with South Korea’s crypto sector into transaction com
US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) drew nearly $1 billion in net inflows on Monday, their biggest daily haul of 2026. The funds recorded $998.9 million in daily net inflows, surpass
Monad's MIP-12 upgrade cut the network's block time from 400 milliseconds to 300 milliseconds. It activated on mainnet on July 23, 2026, at round 89,758,000, and lowered Monad's deterministic
Key Takeaways Veteran analyst Peter Brandt identifies a technical pattern suggesting XRP could reach $5.40, with this target potentially achievable within the next year. The digital asset is
Bitcoin pushed past $87,000 on Monday before stabilizing a little below it. But the rally has triggered a strong surge in market optimism. In fact, Santiment found that Bitcoin-related FOMO h
Key Highlights ETH surged 4.80% in 24 hours, reaching $2,752.53 and approaching the psychologically important $3,000 level. BitMine acquired an additional 27,562 ETH during the past week, exp
Ripple and Absa Corporate and Investment Banking have launched Absa Digital Asset Custody in South Africa, putting Ripple’s institutional custody technology into a bank-led service nearly a y
