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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. has "outright grabbed" roughly $1 billion worth of cryptocurrencies from Iran via seizures.

Celsius founder and former CEO Alex Mashinsky hopes to have his prison sentence vacated, claiming a legal conflict tied to Sam Bankman-Fried.

Coinbase can offer U.S. customers access to offshore crypto perpetual futures, a risky form of leveraged crypto trading, the CFTC said Friday.

One of America's most important historical documents will forever be inscribed on a Bitcoin block, thanks to someone's $83 transaction fee.

Intercontinental Exchange CEO Jeffrey Sprecher said his company and Hyperliquid are learning from each other as crypto perps gain ground.

A new study gave five frontier AI models 1,000 real-world claims to fact-check. They disagreed on 67% of them.

The CFTC issued an order allowing Kalshi to offer perpetual futures in the U.S., starting with contracts tied to Bitcoin's price.

The Sui token is among the worst performing top 100 crypto assets of the last week in the wake of back-to-back outages.

Cooling demand for Bitcoin ETFs adds to declining accumulation by whales, underscoring a trying time for the crypto market.

The man who built the modern NYSE just said Hyperliquid is bigger than Nasdaq. JPMorgan says the debasement trade is unwinding.

Prosecutors say two police colonels organized an extortion ring that allegedly tracked, abducted, and held crypto entrepreneurs at gunpoint.

The approval makes Paxos the “only blockchain-native firm” approved by the SEC to operate as a registered clearing agency in the U.S.

Researchers in China built a model that uses an AI’s downtime to prepare for users’ next question before they ask it.

Blockchain network Sui is suffering another period of significant downtime barely five months after the last "network stall."

Prediction market giant Kalshi has asked a federal judge to prevent Minnesota from allowing the ban to go into effect in August.

Anthropic's latest flagship AI model Claude Opus 4.8 arrives with sharper reasoning, tighter alignment, and a price tag that hasn't budged.

Anthropic signaled that broader access to its controversial Claude Mythos AI models may arrive "in the coming weeks" after limited testing.

Current Bitcoin whale activity is similar in nature to the last bear market in 2022 when BTC fell precipitously, according to on-chain data.

The Senate’s crypto bill has supporters excited—and opponents concerned—about the bill’s potential reverberations beyond America’s borders.

Analysts compared Ethereum's current position to Amazon following the dot-com bubble burst.

Prediction market odds are rising for Bitcoin to drop below $70,000 in the next few days following a dip to a six-week low price.

A London startup trained an AI on 4.1 million recipes across seven languages—and the whole thing is smaller than a song file.

Massive ETF outflows just sent crypto sharply lower. Jefferies says the next crypto IPO wave could create a $1T public market.

The near-$1 billion crypto liquidation spree comes amid rising tensions over the U.S.-Iran conflict and ETF outflows.

The regulator filed alongside the crypto exchange to undo a 2025 consent order it now says "should not have been filed."

Researchers warn that prolonged chatbot interactions could distort how some users experience reality and social connection.

If Tesla and SpaceX merged—as is a reported possibility—then Elon Musk's combined entity would hold billions of dollars' worth of Bitcoin.

Predictors on Myriad are losing faith, believing it's more likely that Ethereum dumps to $1,500 before a prospective move up to $3,000.

Music v2 brings genre-shifting and section-by-section composition to ElevenLabs. Stable Audio 3.0 ships open weights and six-minute tracks. Is either good enough to dethrone the category leader?

Cash App has begun supporting stablecoin transactions on networks including Ethereum and Solana, pushing past its Bitcoin-based roots.

SoFi is making its SoFiUSD token available to members, marking a milestone in the convergence of regulated banking and blockchain.

Kraken customers can make use of their Bitcoin holdings and generate BTC yield without ever leaving the exchange.

Claw-Anything simulates a real digital existence and asks AI assistants to handle it. GPT-5.5, the best model available, scored 34.5%.

Mastercard has secured a highly coveted BitLicense in New York, anchoring its compliance-first strategy for stablecoins on Wall Street.

The charges against the CatFi creators mark the first time South Korean prosecutors have applied the new Virtual Asset User Protection Act.

Strategy is paying down its debt instead of buying Bitcoin, and AI tokens are now massively outperforming BTC.

A $1.3 billion off-exchange IBIT block sale shook Bitcoin Tuesday, but experts say the real test is yet to come.

The inaugural games produced a record-breaking swim, but several non-enhanced athletes still beat the enhanced competitors.

Five unknown addresses removed 107 Bitcoin worth $8.2 million from circulation today, sparking intrigue on social media.

Crypto treasury firms Sharplink and Forward Industries will both be included in the Russell 2000 and 3000 indexes at the end of June.