One cold February morning in 2014, Kolin Burges stood outside Mt. Gox’s Tokyo office, clutching a handwritten cardboard sign and demanding answers from the bitcoin exchange’s CEO, Mark Karpeles, about his missing tokens. Eleven years later, the …

The U.K.’s crypto industry has just over 12 months to prepare for an even stricter regulatory regime, a senior official with the country’s finance regulator said. Matthew Long, director of payments and digital assets at the U.K.’s Financial Conduct …

Dogecoin (DOGE), ether (ETH) and xrp (XRP) sank more than 5% in early Asian hours as traders took profits on a relief rally earlier in the week, with eyes on the U.S. personal consumption expenditure (PCE) figures scheduled for release later Friday …

The market capitalization of tokenized gold climbed to a record $1.4 billion in March with trading volumes soaring to yearly highs, CoinDesk Data’s monthly stablecoin report shows. The growth in market value and activity happened alongside the …

In the beginning, there were only CPUs, then GPUs, for bitcoin mining. Then came the mighty ASIC in 2013, and with it, the “shoebox” form factor that has become emblematic of the bitcoin mining industry. What comes next? Will the shoebox design …

Paul Atkins, the former member of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that President Donald Trump has tapped to run the agency, assured a different direction for the agency on crypto from the last four years, though he wasn’t pressed with big …

Market-making on-chain trades is mysterious and important — and lucrative, too. The sorun, according to pseudonymous trader Grug, is that crypto protocols with valuable order flow are leaving money on the table. Grug’s company Warlock Labs just …

Ripple today said it was partnering with Chipper Cash, a payments provider serving across Africa, to support cross-border payments into the continent using Ripple Payments. Ripple Payments uses XRP, to enable quicker, cheaper, and more efficient …

TradFi giant Northern Trust (NTRS) will provide custody and cash management services for trade finance focused stablecoin issuer Haycen, the company said in a press release Thursday. Northern Trust Asset Servicing will be responsible for providing …

A bizarre twist of AI tech and nostalgia is seeing memecoin enthusiasts issue, pump, and dump tokens themed after Studio Ghibli movies as a new AI arka trend went viral in the past 24 hours. That’s coming after OpenAI’s newly released 4o model — its …