Mercado Bitcoin is the latest digital asset company to suffer a hack, Bloomberg reported Monday (Nov. 2). The Brazilian cryptocurrency broker will absorb a $40 million loss from the incident, the report said. No customer losses are expected. The attack targeted “hot wallets” but was...
Circle is encouraging the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to maintain technology neutrality and to clarify the treatment of different permissionless network structures as the regulator finalizes its proposed Regulation Crypto Assets. Circle, a provider of blockchain infrastructure, digital assets and applications, submitted these and...
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Michael Selig is using the theft of more than $6.3 billion from Binance to press his case for bringing offshore cryptocurrency exchanges under federal supervision. In an appearance on CNBC on Friday (Oct. 30), he argued that the attack...
Bitcoin payments tool BTCPay Server reportedly urged users Sunday (Nov. 1) to shut off their servers following word of an attack. That’s according to a report Monday (Nov. 2) from CoinDesk, which says the attackers in question were draining so-called “hot wallets” on some of those servers. BTCPay’s open-source...
October 30, 2026
Binance’s pledge to absorb an estimated $6.3 billion theft leaves the exchange responsible for replacing customers’ assets while investigators pursue a recovery whose timing and outcome remain uncertain. Following the hack, Binance said its emergency reserve, known as the Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU), and corporate funds would cover all losses, CoinDesk reported Friday […]
October 22, 2026
The week in digital assets was dominated by regulation. The net-net of a wild week? Banks face renewed competition for customers’ cash after federal regulators left room for cryptocurrency platforms...
October 22, 2026
Digital money is pushing banks toward making decisions about infrastructure well beyond whether to issue a token. Among the decisions that need to be made: Which forms of digital money...
October 21, 2026
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has finalized rules governing stablecoin issuers under its jurisdiction, establishing standards for reserves, redemption, custody and risk management ahead of a...
November 02, 2026
Mercado Bitcoin is the latest digital asset company to suffer a hack, Bloomberg reported Monday (Nov. 2). The Brazilian cryptocurrency broker will absorb a $40 million loss from the incident, the report said. No customer losses are expected. The attack targeted “hot wallets” but was quickly contained, according to the report. Mercado Bitcoin is investigating […]
November 02, 2026
Circle is encouraging the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to maintain technology neutrality and to clarify the treatment of different permissionless network structures as the regulator finalizes its proposed Regulation...
November 02, 2026
Bitcoin payments tool BTCPay Server reportedly urged users Sunday (Nov. 1) to shut off their servers following word of an attack. That’s according to a report Monday (Nov. 2) from CoinDesk, which says the...
November 02, 2026
The hackers accused of carrying out the largest cryptocurrency theft on record may have had AI-powered assistance. That’s according to a report Monday (Nov. 2) from Bloomberg News, which says these hackers...
