President Donald Trump planned to put special focus on his administration’s efforts against overseas crypto-fueled criminal operations at a Wednesday event on cybercrime, according to a White House official. Crypto-related scams have stolen tens of billions from U.S. citizens, and Trump was set to highlight how much his administration is targeting and disrupting the transnational
Canada’s monthly peer-to-peer crypto activity has fallen from a spring 2024 peak near 650,000 transactions alongside a decline in study permits, a pattern Chainalysis has linked to changes in the country’s international student population. Summary The study describes a population-level correlation, without establishing that international students caused the transaction decline. Government figures show 71% fewer
Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir and Zack Hess for ongoing research and discussions on proof-of-stake algorithms and their own input into Slasher-like proposals One of the hardest problems in cryptocurrency development is that of devising effective consensus algorithms. Certainly, relatively passable default options exist. At the very least it is possible to rely on a
Three companies have notified the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of their plans to operate tokenized securities venues following a new rule, according to the top regulator. Tokenized Stock Venue, Perpetuals.com, and OKX have all submitted plans to operate by allowing trading of tokenized stocks, the SEC said in a Wednesday announcement. Along with the
Dogecoin Labs has launched with three DOGE product teams under one organization, bringing MyDoge, DogeOS, and Such App together through a partnership with the Dogecoin Foundation. Summary House of Doge will exchange selected operations and assets for an equity stake in Labs. The Foundation keeps its stewardship role as Labs becomes its official commercial partner.
Who are you? I’m Gav – together with Jeffrey Wilcke and Vitalik Buterin, I’m one third of the ultimate leadership of Ethereum ÐΞV. ÐΞV is a UK software firm that is under a non-profit-making agreement with the Ethereum Foundation to create version 1.0 of the Web Three software stack. We three directors—who are ultimately responsible
JPMorgan projects Bitcoin at 10% annual returns over 10-15 years, beating stocks and gold. Here’s what the forecast means for BTC J.P. Morgan Asset Management has included Bitcoin in its long-term return forecasts for the first time, projecting a 10% compound annual return over the next 10 to 15 years. The figure, from its 2027
Zebec Network has bought back 40.5 million ZBCN for about $100,000 in Q3 using revenue from its card and payroll services. Summary Card and payroll income financed Zebec’s latest quarterly token purchases. Zebec says the acquired ZBCN will remain outside circulation. The buyback’s dollar value represents roughly 0.04% of ZBCN’s market capitalization. Zebec’s DAO plans
Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir, Chris Barnett and Dominic Williams for ideas and inspiration In a recent blog post I outlined some partial solutions to scalability, all of which fit into the umbrella of Ethereum 1.0 as it stands. Specialized micropayment protocols such as channels and probabilistic payment systems could be used to make small
Bitcoin has continued to defend the range lows despite repeated attempts to break lower. We expect it to trade between $81,300 and $84,400 ahead of the 28 October Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) rate decision. Initial tests of the upper boundary may, however, encounter selling pressure as short-term traders take profits. Recent market metrics highlight
