Thailand’s Bank of Thailand (BOT) has launched a sweeping anti-money laundering offensive targeting USDT stablecoin transactions, cash flows, and gold trading – and the scale of enforcement suggests this is not a routine compliance update. The central bank is working alongside the Thai SEC to conduct deep audits of high-volume stablecoin activity, with Tether’s USDT
Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz has challenged claims that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission focused only on Ripple’s sales of XRP. Summary David Schwartz says the SEC repeatedly portrayed XRP itself as a security during Ripple litigation. Marc Fagel argues the case ultimately tested whether Ripple sold XRP through unregistered securities offerings. The 2023
Community & education BlockchainsForSchools Sponsorship of BlockchainsForHacks, an ideation challenge for high school and college students to create innovative projects using blockchain technology. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs Hubble Continued funding for work on an optimistic rollup hub allowing creation of any rollup chain simply by writing a solidity function. Cryptography & zero knowledge proofs
Bitcoin traded near $62,600 on Tuesday, down 0.3% over 24 hours and roughly flat on the week, per CoinDesk data. The market is steady on the surface but the macro backdrop underneath it has turned. President Trump reinstated the U.S. blockade of Iranian ships through the Strait of Hormuz and demanded a 20% fee on
Stablecoin cross-border payments priced below interbank foreign exchange rates in every month of the second quarter, according to Borderless.xyz’s Q2 2026 benchmark. Summary Stablecoin cross-border payments priced below interbank rates throughout Q2 across Borderless’s global payment network tracked. Single-provider routing cost businesses an extra $2,330 for every $1 million moved during Q2 operations. African corridors
While everyone is staring in amazement on December 1st, 12pm UTC anticipating the Eth 2.0 Beaconchain genesis, within the JavaScript team we quietly prepared our own little genesis release in the shadows. Being very much around the good ol’ Eth 1.0 chain we are nevertheless very much excited on this too. 😀 Some background story:
Bitcoin closed the second quarter of 2026 mired in its deepest and longest downturn since the last bear market, according to Bitwise Asset Management’s newly released Q3 2026 Crypto Market Review. Yet the $9 billion crypto asset manager frames the pain as a setup rather than a collapse, arguing the industry has never been sturdier
Binance has released its 44th proof-of-reserves report, showing that customer Bitcoin holdings increased during June while Ethereum and Tether balances declined. Summary Binance users raised Bitcoin holdings 1.22%, adding 7,715 BTC during June, the latest snapshot showed. Ethereum and Tether balances declined, while Binance continued publishing monthly reserve data for customer verification. Reserve snapshots show
Minimum ETH threshold hit 🎉; genesis on December 1st, 12pm UTC Get your nodes running! and monitor updates through genesis 👀 Eth2 genesis, December 1st. Get ready! This week, the deposit contract hit the minimum threshold of 16384 32-ETH validator deposits, kicking genesis into motion. Genesis time is 1606824023 — that is, December 1, 2020,
Image AI There was a time when betting on football meant checking a few prices before kickoff and waiting for the match to unfold. That feels old now. During the FIFA 2026 World Cup, the screen moves almost like a trading app. Prices shift, live data updates, markets pause, alerts land and fans try to
