The Supreme Court of the United States on Friday struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariff regime, ruling 6-3 that he exceeded his authority by imposing broad import duties under a national emergency law. The decision invalidates tariffs Trump levied in early 2025 under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a statute enacted in
A self-replicating npm worm dubbed SANDWORM_MODE hits 19+ packages, harvesting private keys, BIP39 mnemonics, wallet files and LLM API keys from dev environments. A live npm supply chain attack is sweeping developer environments right now. Socket’s Threat Research Team uncovered what it tracks as SANDWORM_MODE, a self-replicating worm spread across at least 19 malicious npm
Is your Bitcoin safe from the computers of the future? At a recent conference, developer Hunter Beast raised a red flag. He said the network is not ready for quantum machines, the kind of powerful machines that could crack today’s cryptography. That sounds dramatic. Government labs are racing to build super machines. Encryption at risk.
Blue Owl Capital’s (OWL) announcement this week that it would sell $1.4 billion in loans to raise liquidity for investors in a retail-focused private credit fund has triggered alarm bells across financial markets, with more than one prominent analyst drawing direct parallels to two Bear Stearns hedge fund collapses that foreshadowed the 2008 financial crisis
Cluster Mempool1 is a complete reworking of how the mempool handles organizing and sorting transactions, conceptualized and implemented by Suhas Daftuar and Pieter Wuille. The design aims to simplify the overall architecture, better align transaction sorting logic with miner incentives, and improve security for second layer protocols. It was merged into Bitcoin Core in PR
Polymarket shows an 85% chance the CLARITY Act passes in 2026 as talks continue and lawmakers debate stablecoin reward rules. Prediction markets are signaling strong momentum for crypto legislation as Polymarket shows rising confidence that the CLARITY Act will be signed into law in 2026. The outlook comes as policymakers continue negotiations and as industry
19 Dec Astana Financial Services Authority increases Bitfinex Securities platform limit to $310m as tokenisation continues to grow Astana, Kazakhstan 19 December, 2025 – Bitfinex Securities is pleased to announce that the Astana Financial Services Authority (“AFSA”), an independent regulator of financial services and related activities in the Astana International Financial Centre (“AIFC”), has increased
Something interesting is happening with XRP crypto. Roughly 200M tokens have just flowed off Binance, pushing the exchange supply ratio noticeably lower. That kind of movement does not usually come from small retail accounts. When coins leave major exchanges, it often means one thing. They are moving into private wallets, not sitting there ready to
Broker-dealers regulated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) can treat their stablecoin holdings as regulatory capital, according to a tweak this week to a frequently-asked-questions document maintained by the agency. That’s a seismic shift offered in the form of a minor addition to the SEC’s “Broker Dealer Financial Responsibilities” FAQ. It’s on-brand for
Nakamoto Inc. (NASDAQ: NAKA) announced today that it has completed its acquisitions of BTC Inc. and UTXO Management GP, LLC (“UTXO”), finalizing merger agreements previously announced earlier this month. The transaction was structured entirely through the issuance of Nakamoto common stock. BTC Inc. and UTXO securityholders received 364,795,104 shares of Nakamoto stock, at a combined
