Unchained

RBI says its network banks reach around 18 million customers in the region, and a spokesperson told Cointelegraph the first launches are planned for Albania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia in the first half of 2027.

The derivatives exchange that popularized the perpetual swap closed for good on Wednesday. Customers can still take their money out, and BitMEX says balances left on the platform draw a monthly account fee.

The crypto payments company would take on North Capital’s broker-dealers, trading venue and transfer agent as it moves into tokenized securities, pending regulatory approval.

The plan would give Blockchain.com users access to tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs on the NYSE’s planned digital trading venue.

Validators stopped the network for nearly 25 hours after a governance vote on Neutron gave an attacker control of Astroport and Drop contracts.

Zcash and NEAR are both ripping this week, and Illia Polosukhin and Mert Mumtaz say privacy is the reason why. Is this how the “Bitcoin DeFi” vision comes true?

The protocol’s restart plan converts what its Tron liquidity providers hold into a claim: their balances read zero, and what they are owed moves to a separate on-chain record. Chainflip says it will make them whole but has not publicly said when, or from where.

An attacker drained about $7.8 million in rsETH from an Ethereum Safe through an over-permissioned module. A bot named Yoink beat him to the payout in the same block.

The endowment built from unclaimed 2016 DAO money is asking the companies that benefit from Ethereum security work to help pay for it, in a year whose first half already set a record for the number of crypto hacks.

The teams behind rival plans to build account abstraction into the base layer, Ethereum’s EIP-8141 and Base’s EIP-8130, have given up trying to converge, so wallet developers may end up supporting two transaction formats across the two networks.

The company behind much of Ethereum’s tooling will carry on as MetaMask under Joe Lubin, while its protocol and institutional infrastructure work, including Linea and Besu, moves into a newly formed company that takes the Consensys name.

The EF’s Protocol cluster set a hard date for post-quantum Ethereum and graded 62 proposals for the fork that decides whether it holds.

Owners must stake, post and attest to a permitted country to earn Robinhood Stock Tokens. Anyone can buy the NFT, and the portfolio inside it, with no KYC.

OpenSea postponed its SEA token generation event indefinitely as NFT market capitalization fell 50% since January, even as the platform’s OS2 rebuild shifts most volume to crypto trading.

President Trump’s accounts bought as much as $115,000 of Strategy shares in late July and sold shares of two bitcoin miners, his newest financial disclosure shows.

The regulator is deciding whether to open a case, while Kalshi says the repeating trades came from a market maker being picked off by faster traders.

A new advisory tells exchanges that contracts on what a named person says or does must clear a higher bar, after the agency settled cases with a White House teleprompter operator and George Santos.

The European System of Central Banks told the European Commission that MiCA’s interest ban should follow stablecoins into the products it does not currently regulate.

Zcash and NEAR are both ripping this week, and Illia Polosukhin and Mert Mumtaz say privacy is the reason why. Is this how the “Bitcoin DeFi” vision comes true?

Chainalysis says state-backed operators now account for about half of the malicious code written to public chains, storing command-server addresses in smart contracts and transaction data that no registrar or host can take down.

Nearly 2.4 million ZEC, about two-thirds of the eligible supply, voted to speed up blocks, preserve halvings and ship NU7 as soon as possible.

A crowdsourced challenge of more than 100 researchers and AI agents drove a quantum benchmark down 86% in two months, well below Google’s March figure.