Circle and Tether, the companies behind dollar-linked tokens USDC and USDT, have already frozen about $320,000 in stablecoins connected to the breach. Their tokens contain controls that allow the companies to blacklist addresses. Read More: Circle and Tether step in to freeze hacker wallet after… Read More
“Throughout 2026, Binance has consistently captured the largest share of USDC spot trading activity, processing $5 million-$10 billion in daily volume, roughly 10-20 times more than most other trading venues, which typically stay below $0.5 billion,” said Anastasia Melachrinos, head of research at Kaiko. Other… Read More
Alpenglow changes how validators, the computers that check transactions, agree on the network’s records. They will exchange votes directly instead of recording those votes as transactions inside blocks, the batches of transactions added to the blockchain. Agreement can then take one or two voting rounds.… Read More
The case adds to a growing fight between prediction markets and state gambling regulators over who has the authority to oversee the products. Prediction market companies argue that their event contracts are financial products overseen at the federal level by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission… Read More
Qivalis, the independent euro-pegged stablecoin builder with a growing number of banks as shareholders in the project, has also been undergoing a transformation. Sell notes that one year ago he was the only employee; now Qivalis has grown to about 40 staffers and is close… Read More
The activity had already drawn attention from Beni, a co-founder of research firm Stealth Neolab, who said Kalshi’s ether perpetual recorded about $539 million in 24-hour volume against just $3.1 million in open interest. He later found that trades of exactly $5,500 made up 48%… Read More
