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Zoomex Launches ZWTC 2026 With Record 5M USDT Prize Pool

Ibrahim Rajab2h ago

Julie "Mooncat" Wolf10h ago

Trezor Email Provider Breached; Fake Hardware Flaw Alerts Hit User Inboxes

Hackers compromised a third-party email provider used by Trezor and sent fraudulent security alerts to customers warning of a fabricated hardware flaw. Trezor confirmed the incident and told users to ignore the fake messages. The breach did not affect Trezor's core infrastructure or devices...

Blockchain Academics Newsroom14h ago

Tether and Fasanara Launch $400M Private Credit Fund Targeting $3B From Institutions

Tether and Fasanara Capital have jointly launched a $400 million private credit fund using USDT stablecoin infrastructure to power asset-backed lending across more than 60 countries, with a target of raising up to $3 billion from institutional investors.

Blockchain Academics Newsroom14h ago

SkyAI Board Faces Challenge From Forward Industries Over 7.2% Dilution Plan

Forward Industries and an allied shareholder group are mounting a board challenge against SkyAI over a proposed equity compensation plan that would authorize 5.145 million new shares and dilute existing stockholders by approximately 7.2%.

Regulation

U.S. Treasury Sanctions Xinbi Guarantee Over Billions in Cybercrime Facilitation

The U.S. Treasury Department designated Xinbi Guarantee on September 9, 2026, over allegations that the platform facilitated billions of dollars in illicit financial flows tied to large-scale cybercrime operations. The action marks another escalation in Treasury's campaign against infrastructure...

Hadi Ghadban16h ago

Euro Stablecoins Face a 300-to-1 Deficit Against the Dollar. MiCA and RWA Tokenization May Change That

The onchain stablecoin market shows a stark 300-to-1 imbalance favoring dollar-denominated tokens. Europe's MiCA regulation and growing real-world asset tokenization could narrow this gap, though network effects and banking fragmentation present obstacles.

Hadi Ghadban18h ago

Alejandro Silva Ramírez20h ago

Italy's Central Bank Mandates Sanctions Screening on All Crypto Transfers

Italy's central bank has ordered all crypto service providers to implement sanctions screening on every transfer. The universal mandate, which applies regardless of transaction size, diverges from MiCA's risk-based approach and could consolidate market power among larger firms while pushing...

Silvergate Ex-CEO Alleges Biden Administration Coordinated Attack Forced 2023 Closure

Silvergate Bank's former CEO Alan Lane is publicly blaming the Biden administration for a coordinated regulatory attack that forced the institution's 2023 closure, challenging the narrative that market forces alone drove the collapse.

Hadi Ghadban23h ago

DeFi

Blockchain Academics NewsroomYesterday

Visa Opens VisaNet Settlement Data to Blockchain Lenders as Stablecoin Volume Hits $20B Run Rate

Visa announced it is pairing VisaNet payment settlement data with blockchain lending infrastructure, allowing stablecoin card issuers to access credit backed by their settlement activity. Stablecoin payment volume on Visa's network has grown nearly 200% year-over-year, reaching a $20 billion...

Alejandro Silva RamírezSep 2, 2026

Nomura's Laser Digital Taps Keyring Network for Compliant DeFi Fixed Income on Euler

Nomura's crypto subsidiary Laser Digital has partnered with Keyring Network to launch institutional-grade fixed income markets on Euler Finance, positioning the Japanese banking giant as one of the first major traditional finance names to target DeFi lending infrastructure directly.

Alejandro Silva RamírezAug 28, 2026

Ethena Adds Equities and Commodities to USDe Basis Trade, Closes HIP-3 Market on Hyperliquid

Ethena is broadening the collateral strategy underpinning its USDe stablecoin to include equity perpetuals and commodities, while simultaneously shutting down its HIP-3 market on Hyperliquid and overhauling ENA tokenomics in what the protocol is framing as a push to reignite growth.

Alejandro Silva RamírezAug 28, 2026

Bullish Commits $100M to USD.AI for GPU-Backed Loan Products

Bullish has committed $100 million in financing to USD.AI, a lending platform using GPU hardware as collateral for digital asset loans. The deal marks a major institutional bet on computational assets as a DeFi lending primitive, following broader adoption of real-world asset lending.

Technology

Ibrahim RajabAug 27, 2026

Nvidia Earnings Beat and $12.9B Hugging Face Deal Push Nasdaq Futures Up 1.1%

Nvidia stock jumped 7% in premarket trading Thursday after posting an earnings beat and announcing a $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face. Nasdaq futures climbed 1.1% on the news, arriving ahead of the Federal Reserve's Jackson Hole Economic Symposium.

Technology

Mystery AI Model Ox Alpha Beats Claude Fable on Benchmarks, Creators Unknown

A new AI model called Ox Alpha has surfaced with no identifiable creators, a free price tag, and benchmark scores that outperform Anthropic's Claude Fable. The model ships with a 1 million token context window, accepts video as input, and is available at no cost.

Blockchain Academics NewsroomAug 25, 2026

Technology

Inception Labs' Mercury 2 Outperforms Google's DiffusionGemma in AI Showdown

Inception Labs released Mercury 2, an AI model that outperforms Google's DiffusionGemma while preserving model intelligence during the shift from sequential to parallel processing. The development marks a significant architectural transition in the post-autoregressive era.

Alejandro Silva RamírezJun 21, 2026