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South Korean police have reportedly referred 18 Polymarket users to prosecutors as part of an illegal gambling investigation that involves 26 suspects and roughly 17.6 billion won (about $12.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has issued what is being described as an innovation exemption to facilitate the trading of tokenized NMS stocks, opening a reported five-year windo
JPMorgan says Bitcoin could receive more support than gold if ETF investors remove bearish hedges while keeping their underlying fund exposure. The idea is about how investors are positioned
DeFi Development Corp. closed an underwritten preferred-stock offering on September 8, 2026, raising approximately $11 million in gross proceeds through a new instrument called CHAD, which th
Curve Finance says it is live on Arc, the stablecoin-focused Layer 1 blockchain built by Circle, marking an early DeFi deployment on a network that has yet to accumulate public liquidity data
Zest Protocol has reported that its levered Bitcoin staking vault on the Stacks network has begun accruing yield, marking an operational milestone for one of the DeFi protocols building Bitco
Anyone who sells a bitcoin position at a loss in order to use that loss for tax purposes, and buys the same quantity back shortly afterwards, triggers two things at once in Germany. The loss
Imagine two public blockchains: One has 10 million users, but most of them rarely use the network again after signing up and claiming rewards. The other has only 1 million users, but they con
Key Points US Treasury's OFAC designated BitBank as a priority Iranian digital asset target today. The action is part of Operation Economic Outcast, targeting Iran's crypto-based sanctions ev
TLDR: BitBank sanctions target the Iranian exchange after Treasury alleged it facilitated hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin transfers to the IRGC. Treasury also designated BitBank de
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has extended its exemption for crypto software brokers, preserving a temporary compliance framework for firms that might otherwise face registration r
In its latest analysis evaluating the outlook for the cryptocurrency market in the coming years, The DeFi Report argued that Bitcoin may be entering the early stages of a new bull cycle. The
