The Securities and Exchange Commission spent Tuesday proposing the friendliest set of crypto rules an American regulator has ever put on paper. On Wednesday, the industry that would benefit from them was at the White House, having lunch with the presid…
A crypto venture backed by Donald Trump and his family is helping to bankroll a platform that resells artificial intelligence from Chinese companies the US government has blacklisted, an arrangement that sits awkwardly beside the administration’s own c…
Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent of Truth Social, reported a net loss of $238.1m for the second quarter of 2026, a figure that dwarfs the $20m loss it posted a year earlier and turns the company’s slow drift from social network to crypto …
South Africa has proposed banning corporate cross-border stablecoin transactions, in draft rules released jointly by the Reserve Bank and National Treasury. It is one of the most aggressive attempts by any emerging economy to force borderless digital t…
A security vulnerability in the cryptocurrency hardware wallet Coldcard is allowing hackers to drain the crypto from victims’ wallets. The total losses amount to more than $130 million, according to blockchain monitoring firms.
American Bitcoin lost money again in the second quarter, and kept buying bitcoin anyway. The Trump-family-backed miner reported a net loss of $57.2m for the three months to June, narrower than the $81.8m loss it booked the quarter before. Mining revenu…
Donald Trump earned about $1.4 billion from cryptocurrency ventures in 2025, according to the annual financial disclosure his administration filed with the US Office of Government Ethics on June 30, making digital assets the single largest source of in…
Augustus has raised $180 million at a $1 billion valuation. Tiger Global led the round, the company announced on Tuesday. Hummingbird, QED, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Circle and Deel joined in. The startup has now raised $210 million in total. A…
Prosecutors accused 21-year-old student Zyaire Wilkins of publishing on Steam several fake video games that contained malware, infecting thousands of victims, and stealing crypto from some of them.
Nine years later, Binance serves more than 316 million users across trading, payments, savings, tokenized securities, and traditional asset access. Its evolution from a spot cryptocurrency exchange into an integrated financial platform closely mirrors …