SEC examination employees is not going to deal with crypto as a standalone danger in its fiscal 2026 priorities, marking a transparent departure from the company’s strategy in 2024 and 2025. The Division of Examinations’ 17-page “2026 Examination Priorities” lays out focus areas for funding advisers, funds, broker-dealers, and market utilities, and reiterates cross-cutting work…
CEO of cryptocurrency alternate OKX, Star, shared on social media platform X that following the market downturn on October eleventh some establishments have skilled losses, sure individuals have exited the market, and a few rivals have quietly scaled again promotion of their novelty tokens. Star famous that whereas it’s unclear whether or not a bear…
Google DeepMind, the AI division of Google, has launched WeatherSubsequent 2, its most superior system so far for producing international climate forecasts with improved accuracy and better decision. WeatherSubsequent 2 can produce forecasts as much as eight instances quicker, with temporal decision as exact as one hour, due to a brand new mannequin able to…
Ethereum Name Service (ENS), probably the most broadly used naming protocol on Ethereum, introduced that it has chosen the Taiko stack as the muse for Namechain, its devoted zero-knowledge (ZK) rollup for decentralized naming companies. Namechain might be deployed as a totally primarily based rollup utilizing Surge, Nethermind’s framework constructed on Taiko expertise. This marks…
Alibaba Cloud, a supplier of cloud computing providers, introduced a partnership with ZetaChain, a blockchain platform. ZetaChain positions itself as a Universal Blockchain with native connectivity to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and different networks, providing a unified liquidity framework and streamlined person expertise. Its Universal EVM permits builders to create purposes that function throughout a number…
Bitcoin-native liquidity protocol Yala launched a press release noting issues about current liquidity disruptions and offered an up to date report addressing a spread of neighborhood questions. The announcement acknowledged that on September 14th, an attacker used momentary deployment keys to arrange an unauthorized cross-chain bridge and withdrew 7.64 million USDC, equal to roughly 1,636…
Donald Trump’s pardon of Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao eliminated his remaining legal publicity whereas leaving intact the greater than $4.3 billion that Binance has already paid to U.S. companies. On X, CZ handled the thought of clawing that cash again as hypothetical. He replied to a submit about a refund with a “delicate query”…
Bitcoin fell round 13% over the previous week as rate-cut expectations weakened and ETF outflows deepened, leaving solely 4 top-50 tokens in constructive territory, as idiosyncratic catalysts outweighed macroeconomic stress. The shift in charge expectations and fund withdrawals was echoed broadly throughout majors, with over $3 billion exiting digital-asset funding merchandise over the last three weeks. The adverse…
Decentralised finance (DeFi) ecosystem 1inch introduced the developer launch of Aqua, described as a brand new liquidity layer designed to vary how capital allocation and yield methods perform inside DeFi. According to the announcement, Aqua introduces a mannequin of shared liquidity supposed to extend capital effectivity by enabling a number of methods to entry a…
According to the brand new report from the Web3 safety agency Kerberus titled “The Human Factor: Real-Time Protection Is the Unsung Layer of Web3 Cybersecurity,” solely 13% of current Web3 safety options present real-time safety for customers. The majority of options stay reactive or provide solely partial transaction monitoring, highlighting a major hole in an…