Category: Web3
Blockchains, DeFi, stablecoins, DAOs and the decentralized internet.
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New York wants $1.37 billion from the NovaTech founders, who have left the country, and the sum is only a request
The default judgment is more than a year old, and collecting from two people abroad is a different problem.
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A Senate investigator is asking Tether about payments to Bo Hines’ firm, and no payment figure has been published
Tether says its own counsel found no wrongdoing, which is not the same as an outside party agreeing.
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India’s biggest exchange denies a hack after $16 million left old addresses, and an investigator disputes its account
CoinDCX says the wallets were retired after its July 2025 breach, while ZachXBT says one was still sweeping user deposits this spring.
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Ethereum has called off a Glamsterdam test four days before it was due, and set no new date
A security firm says a gas rule meant to limit state growth could change how existing contracts handle failure.
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An Argentine judge has dismissed the LIBRA case against Milei and ten others, after a token that lost 95 percent in hours
The ruling finds no criminal deception, while a congressional report a year earlier found Milei gave the project essential help.
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Strategy bought no bitcoin last week and spent $205 million buying back its own preferred shares instead
The pause ends a five-week buying run, and the filing does not say why.
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Aviva has put £50 million into a tokenised share class of its £22 billion sterling fund on the XRP Ledger
The fund is two decades old and very large, the tokenised slice is new and small, and the regulatory approval is not stated.
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Canada has published draft stablecoin rules that keep the ban on yield, with comments open until 23 December
Banks want the prohibition kept, while Coinbase Canada already has permission to pay yield on some tokens.
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A flaw in Electrum let rogue servers steal bitcoin when users sped up a payment, and nobody has said how much was lost
At least one user lost funds, and the fix arrived about a week after the first report.
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Coinbase Ireland has been fined €3.25 million for mixing customer money, and says nobody lost any
The Central Bank of Ireland found daily shortfalls in the funds Coinbase had to protect, and the sanction still needs High Court confirmation.