The Ethereum Foundation doubles down on one of the ecosystem’s most critical needs: security. On Tuesday, the organization unveiled a new initiative aimed at tackling an ongoing challenge in crypto development — the high cost of smart contract security auditing. Through its “Audit Subsidy Program,” the Foundation partners with leading audit providers and ecosystem firms […]
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Japan’s e-commerce giant Rakuten is adding XRP to its Rakuten Pay app, allowing its 44 million users to use Ripple’s cryptocurrency as a payment method with more than 5 million merchant locations across the country. In an announcement via X on Tuesday, Tatsuya Kohrogi, Ripple’s senior ecosystem growth manager, said that Rakuten is also enabling
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Bitcoin BTC$74,381.56 started the day with a promising chance for a breakout, but the rally ran out at a familiar brick wall that has kept a lid on prices for more than two months. After briefly topping $76,000 – a key resistance level – the largest cryptocurrency reversed and fell below $74,000 later in the
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Kevin Warsh, President Trump’s nominee to chair the Federal Reserve, filed his 69-page financial disclosure with the US Office of Government Ethics, clearing the final bureaucratic hurdle before his confirmation hearing, which is now expected next week. The filing reveals combined assets with his wife of at least $192 million — but it’s the crypto-specific
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CoW Swap, a decentralized trading interface, said on Tuesday it temporarily halted its services after discovering a domain name system (DNS) hijack affecting its website, highlighting ongoing security risks at the front-end layer of DeFi platforms. In a post on X, the team said the attack took place at 14:54 UTC and warned users to
Aave (AAVE), up 3.6% from Monday, joined Ethereum as a top performer.
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The decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) behind the Ethereum layer-2 network Scroll said it will propose a plan to dissolve its security council and transfer control of the network to an account managed by an internal team. The proposal’s announcement comes two months after Scroll’s top fee-generating decentralized application (dapp), crypto neobank Ether.fi, moved to Optimism’s
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Bitcoin BTC$75,153.80 touched $75,900 in mid-morning U.S. trading on Tuesday, its highest level since before Feb. 5, when the price crashed to $60,000. Optimism about developments in the Iran war sparks solid gains across risk assets and continued declines in oil prices. The Nasdaq was ahead 1.2% and WTI crude was lower 6% at $93
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Goldman Sachs filed for a Bitcoin Premium Income exchange-traded fund (ETF) on Monday, marking one of the bank’s first direct pushes into the cryptocurrency investment space. The proposed fund will give investors exposure to bitcoin BTC$75,435.73 and at the same time generate income through a premium-based strategy. The structure relies on selling options tied to
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High Roller Technologies Inc. (ROLR) stock more than doubled after the online casino operator said it planned to introduce an event-based prediction market in the US in conjunction with Crypto.com. The Las Vegas-based company said on Tuesday that it will initially offer its clients Crypto.com Derivatives North America (CDNA) event contracts in the US across
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