Mastercard has joined the Blockchain Security Standards Council (BSSC) as a Charter-level member. The funds firm will assist form safety frameworks for blockchain networks and tokenized property. The announcement arrived on April 21, 2026, from Wakefield, Massachusetts. Mastercard may also be part of working teams that concentrate on safety and privateness tips. A Payments Giant…
Coinbase has launched Agent.market, an AI agent app retailer constructed on its x402 fee protocol, embedding permissionless stablecoin rails instantly into AI infrastructure throughout seven service classes. As of April 21, 2026, roughly 69,000 energetic AI brokers on x402 have already processed over 165 million transactions totaling $50 million in quantity, figures that body this…
The Ketman Project, working underneath the Ethereum Foundation’s ETH Rangers safety program, has within the newest Ethereum information, recognized roughly 100 North Korea Crypto IT operatives embedded inside Web3 corporations utilizing fabricated identities, the results of a six-month investigation that ended with one of the crucial detailed public tallies of DPRK insider infiltration within the…
Kraken confirmed Monday it’s being extorted by a felony group holding movies of inner techniques containing buyer information, and the crypto change has publicly refused to comply. Chief Security Officer Nick Percoco disclosed the menace via X on April 13, 2026, stating the agency is working with federal regulation enforcement throughout a number of jurisdictions…
Nexo, a digital belongings wealth platform for crypto holders, has been named the Official Regional Digital Asset Partner of the Argentina Football Association (AFA), marking a serious step within the firm’s South American enlargement forward of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The AFA x Nexo partnership positions Nexo alongside one of essentially the most celebrated…
University of California researchers have recognized a new class of infrastructure-level assault able to draining crypto wallets and injecting malicious code into developer environments – and this crypto theft already occurred within the wild. A scientific research revealed on arXiv on April 8, 2026, titled “Measuring Malicious Intermediary Attacks on the LLM Supply Chain,” examined…
Three wallets. Half a million {dollars}. Zero prior on-chain historical past. The sample on Polymarket US-Iran ceasefire market is elevating the insiders questions that don’t have clear solutions, and the blockchain receipts are already public. Crypto markets absorbed the ceasefire news with a sharp Bitcoin spike toward $71K, however the actual story could also be…
U.S. federal prosecutors have firmly rejected Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm’s try to leverage a latest Supreme Court ruling to dismiss his prison prices, calling the cited choice fully irrelevant to his case. In a letter filed Tuesday, the Department of Justice responded to Storm’s authorized staff, who had pointed to the Supreme Court’s ruling…
Circle Arc blockchain launches right into a risk setting, its rivals are solely starting to map: on Thursday, the stablecoin issuer revealed a full-stack, phased post-quantum safety roadmap for Arc, focusing on wallets, signatures, validators, and off-chain infrastructure by a four-phase implementation operating to 2030. The announcement shouldn’t be theoretical. Phase 1 deploys at mainnet…
The 10 largest crypto hacks have drained a mixed $5.68 billion from the business, but a structural protection proposed by a DeFiLlama developer would have utilized to only one among them. Data locations the $285 million Drift Protocol exploit alongside legacy disasters resembling Mt. Gox and FTX. The checklist has renewed debate over whether or…