The DeFi Education Fund (DEF) has urged the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority to adopt a narrow, functional definition of “control” as it finalizes new rules for crypto asset activities. The Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group argued that regulatory obligations should hinge on whether an entity has… Read More
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent fired warning shots at crypto insiders who are pushing back in the negotiations over a digital assets market structure bill in the Senate — briefly aligning with Democratic Senator Mark Warner in expressing frustration during a hearing on Thursday. “There… Read More
Ark’s data shows bitcoin has weak price correlations with stocks, bonds, and gold, making it potentially attractive for risk-adjusted portfolio management.
Vanguard’s global head of quantitative equity, John Ameriks, said bitcoin BTC$89,237.53 still resembles a speculative collectible more than an asset meant to build long-term wealth, comparing it to a “digital Labubu,” the plush toy that has become a popular collectible. Ameriks’ words came during Bloomberg’s… Read More
Grayscale is positioning Chainlink as critical infrastructure for the growing market of tokenized assets, according to a new research report. The asset manager’s research arm argues that Chainlink’s suite of services, spanning real-world data feeds, compliance tooling, and blockchain interoperability, solves many of the real-world… Read More
Cloudflare experienced a major outage that cascaded into widespread service disruptions across thousands of websites and applications on Tuesday. Several large centralized crypto services rely on Cloudflare to help with heavy traffic. BitMEX faced an outage while there was also significant downtime for Telegram-linked blockchain… Read More
