The Dallas-based payments company is now the issuer of a U.S. dollar token on a public chain, with Stripe-owned Bridge as the regulated minter, M0 smart contracts handling supply, and Fireblocks holding the float.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposed splitting 1 ETH into two paired option assets that always sum back to 1 ETH, eliminating forced liquidations and letting synthetics rely on slow, prediction-market-style oracles.

A multi-million-dollar Polymarket contract on whether Strategy sold any bitcoin by May 31 has been disputed twice and is now in front of UMA tokenholders, reigniting an analyst argument that prediction-market oracles built on token voting are structurally unfit for high-stakes settlement.

Pavel Durov said in a Telegram channel post that The Open Network's native cryptocurrency will be renamed from Toncoin to Gram over the next three weeks, restoring the 2018 whitepaper name the SEC blocked. The token climbed as high as $2.21.

The OCC-chartered crypto bank is positioning its Atlas network as a coordinated multiparty settlement layer for institutional trading on Hyperliquid, Lighter, and Aave — letting funds touch live DeFi without moving assets offshore or prefunding venues.

The cross-chain lender that once held more than $300M in deposits now has $2.21M in total value locked, a sub-$2M market cap, and no remaining major-exchange listing — the slow end-state of an October 2024 exploit Mandiant traced to North Korea.

The official corporate arm of the Dogecoin Foundation is plugging DOGE into the same OCC-regulated brokerage stack that already powers crypto on PayPal, Venmo, Interactive Brokers and Mercado Libre.

On-chain traces show the DPRK-linked attacker behind April's $292 million bridge exploit has pushed the unfrozen ~$220 million through THORChain, Wasabi, Tornado Cash, and Umbra, leaving roughly $1.7 million still sitting in the original wallet.

A security startup says it disclosed a fund-draining vulnerability to the cross-chain protocol weeks before a $10.7M exploit hit a near-identical flaw. Now it plans to publish exploit code for more.

Five years after pulling synthetic stock tokens under regulatory pressure, the world's largest crypto exchange opened zero-commission trading in 7,000+ US stocks and ETFs for eligible non-US users and lined up an ADGM-issued bStocks tokenization layer on BNB Chain.