Tether Finally Completes Independent Audit Of Reserves

Stablecoin giant Tether has announced that KPMG U.S. completed the first independent audit of its reserves after years of struggling to get a Big Four accounting firm to do so.…

Ethereum Foundation pivots away from Poseidon in post-quantum plan

Advances in compact proofs have erased Poseidon’s previous performance advantage, according to researcher Justin Drake. Source link

White House To Host Crypto Industry Execs Next Week: Report

Crypto and prediction market bigwigs are set to gather at the White House next week, according to a Thursday report from POLITICO.  The report, citing people with knowledge of the…

City of Baltimore Goes After Prediction Markets for Sports Betting

The City of Baltimore and its mayor, Brendan Scott, filed lawsuits against Kalshi and Polymarket over allegations that the companies violated local gambling laws. In a Thursday notice, the Baltimore…

Bitcoin’s Bear Cycle Looks Familiar — And That Might Be The Bullish Case

Bitcoin has fallen from a record high of roughly $126,080 in October to trade recently in the low-$60,000s — a decline of nearly 50% that has rattled sentiment. But it…

Tether Completes First Full Financial Audit of 2025 Accounts

Tether completed the first full independent audit of its annual financial statements, with KPMG US issuing a clean opinion on the stablecoin issuer’s 2025 accounts. The audit covered Tether’s balance…

UBS Ups Bitcoin Position, Buys More Shares In BlackRock ETF

Switzerland’s largest bank has upped its exposure to Bitcoin, according to regulatory filings.  UBS bought more shares in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust, bringing its total position to over $83 million…

CFTC to Join SEC in Exploring Crypto Regulations without CLARITY Bill

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Data Breach At Trezor Leaks Info On Nearly 14,000 Bitcoin Wallet Users

Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor has announced a data breach exposing customer data.  Writing on X Thursday, the company said that 13,689 customers from the US, UK, Sweden, Colombia, Brazil, Italy,…

Bitcoin Mining Capacity Shifts as AI Data Center Demand Grows

Publicly traded Bitcoin miners are cutting mining capacity faster than the Bitcoin network overall, suggesting that more operators are redirecting electricity and infrastructure toward data centers and high-performance computing (HPC),…