Feb 05, 2026

How crypto made and undid the $100M Incognito dark web market

The massive dark web drug marketplace used cryptocurrency, the same technology that ultimately allowed FBI agents to locate and ar...

Feb 05, 2026

Crypto firms offer ideas to break market structure gridlock: Report

Some crypto companies have proposed giving community banks a bigger stablecoin role as Senate negotiations stall over the contenti...

Feb 05, 2026

Bhutan makes second Bitcoin transfer in a week, worth $22M

Bhutan has slipped to the seventh-largest nation-state Bitcoin holder, with its stash falling from 13,295 BTC in October 2024 to 5...

Feb 05, 2026

Bhutan moves $22M in Bitcoin as crypto slumps, mining conditions toughen

Bhutan has slipped to the seventh-largest nation-state Bitcoin holder, with its stash falling from 13,295 BTC in October 2024 to 5...

Feb 05, 2026

Crypto wallet provider Payy launches Ethereum L2 with built-in transaction priva...

Payy says its new layer-2 network routes ERC-20 transfers through privacy pools by default without requiring new wallets or tokens...

Feb 05, 2026

Crypto wallet provider Payy launches privacy-focused Ethereum L2

Payy’s new privacy layer 2 makes every ERC-20 transfer private by default without the need for new wallets or tokens.Crypto projec...

Feb 05, 2026

XRP traders more optimistic as BTC, ETH mood turns sour: Santiment

Social media sentiment has turned “extremely bearish” toward Bitcoin and Ethereum this week, according to analytics platform Santi...

Feb 05, 2026

CFTC pulls Biden-era proposal to ban sports, political prediction markets

CFTC Chair Mike Selig described the proposal as a “frolic into merit regulation” by the Biden administration.The US Commodity Futu...

Feb 05, 2026

Startale, SBI launch blockchain for institutional FX, RWA trading

Strium will begin with synthetic US and Japanese stocks and commodities before expanding to real tokenized shares and asset-backed...

Feb 05, 2026

Kyle Samani leaves Multicoin in ‘bittersweet moment’ to explore new tech

Solana became one of Samani’s favorite crypto projects at Multicoin in 2018 after he initially favored Ethereum but grew dissatisf...