EU parliament passes ‘chat control,’ allowing private chat scans until 2028
EU lawmakers have again allowed tech firms to scan chats for abuse material, but exempted end-to-end encrypted messages....
Polymarket odds peg BTC above $52K at 99.95% as July 12 ladder tightens
Bitcoin held above $62,000 as U.S.-Iran tensions flared again, while oil rose a third day and gold fell a fourth, leaving crypto relatively muted. (Read...
Robinhood Chain sees over $70M in ETH bridged during first week
Robinhood’s choice to use Ethereum further solidifies its position as the “ultimate settlement layer and liquidity foundation for tokenized assets,” said HashKey Group’s Tim Sun....
An Iowa It Worker, 69, Won $2 Million in Mega Millions and Retired Immediately
Debra Bickle, a 69-year-old IT worker in Waterloo, Iowa, matched the first five Mega Millions numbers on June 5, earning $2 million while missing the...
Bitdeer Invests $36 Million in First US Sealminer Factory as Bitcoin Mining Margins Stay Tight
Bitdeer has begun construction on a $36 million electronics manufacturing facility in Sparks, Nevada, its first U.S. assembly site for Sealminer machines. Bitdeer Targets 10,000...
Zcash targets July 28 launch for Ironwood network upgrade
Zcash’s next upgrade will replace the once-compromised Orchard pool and may offer clues about whether counterfeit tokens were created via a recent bug....
Polymarket odds for Hormuz traffic normalization slide to 62.5% on Gulf flare-up
The U.S. military said it ended a new round of strikes in Iran after hitting about 90 targets, as Iran responded with attacks affecting U.S.-allied...
Swift Launches a Blockchain Ledger to Bring 24/7 Cross-Border Payments to the Global Banking System
The Brussels-based institution highlighted that the blockchain ledger underneath this project progressed from proof of concept to activation and pilot use in nine months. Seventeen...
Hackers tried to backdoor Injective npm package to steal wallet keys
The incident is significant for developers and applications that handle Injective wallet workflows, Socket researchers said....
DeFi may be ‘quietly re-rating’ given outperformance against Bitcoin: Bitwise
“DeFi usually swings much harder than Bitcoin, so holding up this well is unusual,” says Bitwise, as DeFi tokens have outperformed Bitcoin....