Category: Web3
Blockchains, DeFi, stablecoins, DAOs and the decentralized internet.
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Revolut handed over customers’ Bitcoin records because an email domain looked official
The bank says its own systems were never touched, but the people now leaking passports and selfies say they will keep going until Revolut…
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MetaMask is splitting from Consensys, and the same executive chairs both halves
The wallet with 100 million users gets a standalone company, but the two questions investors actually want answered, a listing and a token, still…
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Circle is paying $400 million in stock for the last mile of a stablecoin payment
Tazapay already runs most of its volume in stablecoins and has built Circle’s payments network since 2025, so the deal buys licences more than…
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Ethereum set itself a December 2029 deadline to become quantum-resistant
The schedule needs a hard fork roughly every seven months for three years, on a live chain holding hundreds of billions of dollars.
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About 4,000 bitcoin left Blockstream’s Liquid sidechain, and the taker called it a favour
Someone minted L-BTC out of a software bug, walked it through the normal exit, and then offered to return most of it once the…
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Coinbase brought crypto derivatives to Canada, for people with $5m to trade
A regulated venue for leveraged crypto futures, open only to institutions and the wealthy, run through a US entity on an exemption.
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Felix Pago raised $200m for stablecoin remittances, and more than half is debt
The equity cheque that sets the company’s value is $87m; the rest is a credit line it has to repay.
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Twenty-one banks are forming one company to issue a dollar stablecoin
The group has a currency, a market and a compliance plan, and everything else, including the company itself, is still subject to formation and…
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An MSCI rule change could force $2.8 billion in Strategy sales by December
MSCI is deciding whether a company that mostly holds bitcoin still counts as an operating business, and a deletion would trigger selling no fund…
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Cronos halted its entire blockchain to contain a $75 million exploit
An attacker pumped a thinly traded token roughly a hundredfold in twenty minutes, borrowed against it, and the network’s response was to stop producing…