European Central Bank (ECB) president Christine Lagarde released a statement on Friday touting the digital euro, a central bank digital currency (CBDC), as a unifying force in the European Union (EU) and said the ECB is aiming to launch it “as early as possible.”
“As much as banknotes will

Maximal extractable value (MEV), the process of miners or validators reordering transactions in a block to extract profits, is preventing financial institutions from adopting decentralized finance (DeFi), which hurts retail users, according to Aditya Palepu, CEO of DEX Labs, the lead contributor to

Opinion by: Louise Ivan, co-founder and CEO of Ryder
Step aside, maximalists. Crypto isn’t the domain of early adopters and philosophically driven “hodlers” anymore. The demographics of crypto usage are shifting fast, with stablecoins, in particular, leading the charge.
Forget about newcomers

Spot Solana exchange-traded funds (ETFs) continue to attract investor interest, recording their fourth straight day of inflows amid “capital rotation” from Bitcoin and Ether funds.
According to data from SoSoValue, spot Solana (SOL) ETFs added $44.48 million on Friday, bringing cumulative inflows

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Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest has expanded its bet on Bullish, the digital asset exchange that recently went public on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker BLSH, acquiring over $5 million worth of shares across multiple

Tech entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk is set to launch a standalone messaging app called “X Chat” to compete with Telegram and WhatsApp, with a rollout expected within the next few months
“On X, we just rebuilt the entire messaging stack into what’s called ‘X Chat,’” said Musk during The

A vote from the Senate Commerce Committee on a bill aimed at deregulating crypto mining in New Hampshire was split on Thursday, after senators reported public feedback on the bill had surged since it was last debated.
After being deadlocked twice, once on advancing the bill and again on rejecting i

Although still in its “infancy,” quantum computing could pose a threat to Bitcoin and other proof-of-work algorithms in the near future, according to Amit Mehra, a partner at venture capital firm Borderless Capital.
When asked what trends Borderless Capital was following, Mehra, speaking to

A US appellate court has ruled against Custodia Bank, the crypto-friendly institution founded by Caitlin Long, siding with the Federal Reserve in a lower court decision.
In a Friday judgment in the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, three circuit judges affirmed a lower court ruling in the

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent praised Singapore’s leadership in stablecoin and digital asset adoption during a meeting with Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on Friday, according to an official readout from the US Department of the Treasury
The discussion was held at the Asia-Pacific Economic

The number of different stablecoin tickers and token standards is fragmenting liquidity across the crypto ecosystem and burdening users with a poor experience that is costly, technical,and time-consuming, according to onchain sleuth ZachXBT.
Cross-chain bridging restrictions, gas and transaction fe

Mining hardware producer Canaan has won a contract to supply 4.5 megawatts (MW) of Bitcoin mining application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for a project designed to help stabilize Japan’s electric grid.
According to a Thursday announcement, the company will supply an electrical

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AllUnity’s euro-backed stablecoin, EURAU — a joint venture between Deutsche Bank and asset manager DWS — is expanding across multiple blockchains by using Chainlink’s crosschain infrastructure.
According to a Thursday announcement shared with Cointelegraph, EURAU will use Chainlink’s Cross-Chain