While the late-2025 rally in privacy coins like Zcash (ZEC) and Monero (XMR) has since cooled, demand for anonymous, permissionless digital money — the cypherpunk vision that motivated early Bitcoiners — is unlikely to change. What has changed is where privacy innovation is being directed.  Rather than existing primarily as standalone coins and separate networks,

However, the two largest incidents were not simple smart-contract exploits of the type AI could engineer. In one, a North Korea-linked group drained about $285 million from Drift Protocol after a six-month social-engineering campaign that won it admin access. For the other, the attacker exploited a single-verifier flaw that allowed roughly $292 million to be

Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched trading on the Nasdaq today under the ticker SPCX — and it didn’t arrive empty-handed.  The company officially entered the public Bitcoin treasury leaderboard as the 8th largest holder with 18,712 BTC, a position that had been building for years before its historic IPO debut confirmed the full size of the

Bitmine’s Board of Directors declares initial cash dividends on the Company’s 9.50% Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock Series A Preferred Stock approved for listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “BMNP” with trading expected to commence on Tuesday, June 16, 2026 NORWALK, Conn., June 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — (NYSE: BMNR) Bitmine Immersion

Tampa, Florida, June 9th, 2026, Chainwire Pro wrestling legend, international rock star, multi time world champion and lifelong collector Chris Jericho is officially joining Kokopi Koalas ahead of the June 11 mint on LaunchMyNFT: https://launchmynft.io/mint/kokopikoalas Kokopi Koalas, the customizable NFT ecosystem on Solana, today announced a collaboration with global wrestling icon, musician, actor and collector

For most of their existence, prediction markets sat squarely outside mainstream finance: an interesting technological and cultural phenomenon, but too small, too thinly traded and too often associated with online gambling to attract meaningful institutional interest.  That began to change in 2025, as trading volumes rose sharply, media attention intensified and regulatory clarity improved, making

In XRP news today, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse accused JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon on Fox Business of either misrepresenting the CLARITY Act or spreading misinformation to undermine support for it. The article highlights that the real issue isn’t about compliance or AML standards; rather, it’s about JPMorgan’s defense of its $20Bn payments empire against crypto-native

Ripple is trying to put XRP and RLUSD into the market for AI-agent payments in an environment that is still mostly paying in the dollar-pegged USDC stablecoin. The company introduced the XRPL AI Starter Kit earlier this week, a set of developer tools for building AI agents that can send payments on the XRP Ledger,

Blockworks, the New York-based crypto data and investor relations platform, has acquired rival Messari in a deal that underscores the growing consolidation pressure reshaping the digital asset industry — and the steep valuation resets facing once high-flying crypto startups. The acquisition brings together two of the industry’s largest crypto information businesses. Messari, founded in 2018,