A large-scale address-poisoning spam campaign has contaminated more than 1.5 million Ethereum wallets and resulted in roughly $740,000 in losses, including a single $510,000 theft.
A wallet tied to the pump.fun memecoin turned $285 into roughly $627,000 in a single day on Monday, reigniting concerns about insider trading and market manipulation during the latest memecoin rally.
The NYSE has revealed plans for a 24/7 blockchain trading platform for tokenized stocks and ETFs, though the project remains pending regulatory approval. The exchange describes the initiative as a measured step toward onchain markets.
Ripple and UC Berkeley today unveiled UDAX, an accelerator for projects building on the XRP Ledger; nine startups completed the pilot and received technical mentorship and VC introductions. The program aims to deepen developer activity and drive real-world use cases for XRP Ledger technology.
State Street is focused on rebuilding traditional assets to run on faster, modern financial rails using blockchain technology, CEO Ronald O'Hanley said, emphasizing the effort is about infrastructure — not bitcoin.
South Korea approved legislation on Jan. 16, 2026 to integrate tokenized securities into its capital markets, enabling blockchain-based trading and settlement. The move is intended to modernize infrastructure and could attract fintech firms and new issuers to local markets.
Sui's mainnet halted new transaction submissions for about six hours after validators experienced a consensus split, while nodes continued to serve the last certified state. The interruption paused transaction finality and temporarily limited on-chain activity.
A crypto infrastructure firm announced a $250 million initiative to expand stablecoin payment rails, aiming to let projects operate like digital banks on blockchain. The move underscores growing industry emphasis on payments built on crypto rails as an alternative to traditional banking.
SEC Chair said it remains unclear whether Venezuela actually controls $60 billion in Bitcoin, while several blockchain analysts said they could not verify the claim. The uncertainty leaves regulators and markets without clear evidence on provenance and enforcement options.
On January 12, 2009 Satoshi Nakamoto executed the first peer‑to‑peer Bitcoin transaction; the crypto community marks its 17th anniversary today. The transfer, widely recorded as being sent to developer Hal Finney, proved Bitcoin could move value without intermediaries.