UniCredit is exploring an expansion into digital assets that would add crypto custody and brokerage, and has started selecting a technology provider to hold the assets and handle client transactions, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. As per the report, the discussions are early, and no final decision has been made. Areas under […]
Ethereum developers have tentatively scheduled the Glamsterdam upgrade for Ethereum’s Sepolia testnet on October 6 at 13:53 UTC, even as private devnet testing continues to uncover bugs. The date gives developers a path toward a December mainnet release, but it remains conditional on whether the next testing phase can produce a stable network. Glamsterdam Date […]
XRP Ledger Foundation CTO Denis Angell has suggested that an integration between X Money and XRP could let users move funds from the payments platform into the token and access yield-generating tools on XRPL. His idea goes beyond simply adding crypto payments to X Money, as he sees a possible connection between X’s wallet product […]
Crypto asset manager Bitwise is shutting down its spot Dogecoin exchange-traded fund roughly 10 months after the product launched, as the firm moves to optimize its product range to meet changing investor needs. The fund, BWOW, currently trading on NYSE Arca, is expected to continue trading until October 14, its final trading day. Investor Demand […]
The dispute between Blockstream and the party claiming to be a white-hat hacker has taken a sharper turn, according to Samson Mow’s latest update. The hacker has accused Blockstream of serious security failures, while claiming that the company allocated only $1.5 million, or possibly nothing, to secure $5 billion in assets. Fresh Clash With Blockstream […]
XRP’s weekly Super Trend indicator flipped bullish on August 17, after the token rallied about 70% from $0.98 to $1.70. The catch, according to analyst ChartNerd, is that this exact signal has marked local tops before deep pullbacks in every previous cycle going back to 2019, and XRP is already stalling at the resistance level […]
XRPL has pulled its Permission Delegation amendment after a bug bounty report found a high-risk flaw during testing, with a hardened V1.1 now completing security review and QA checks. The episode shows why delegation at the protocol level needs safeguards that extend beyond the basic feature itself. XRPL Reworks Permission Delegation After Bug Report Permission […]
Consensys has announced it will separate into two independent companies, MetaMask for consumer self-custodial finance and Consensys for Ethereum (ETH) protocols and institutional infrastructure, with the split expected to close by the end of 2026. The reorganization ends a single-company structure that has held for over a decade. MetaMask takes the self-custodial wallet, which the […]
It was less than a month ago when the US Treasury Department announced it would double the maximum size of liquidity-support buybacks for longer-dated government debt. Bitcoin’s price reacted at the time with an immediate leg up. The Treasury now said it would triple it to $6 billion, but BTC remained flat and even dipped. […]
DBS and Citi settled a US dollar cross-border payment between Singapore and New York on September 5 using tokenized deposits on SWIFT’s shared ledger, clearing the transfer in minutes over a weekend when a conventional payment can take up to two business days. The banks used tokenized deposits, commercial-bank money issued on a blockchain, with […]