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OpenAI's Codex tool enhances AI capabilities in coding, assisting developers by suggesting code snippets and completing code blocks.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is pivoting. The agency's dropping its aggressive crypto enforcement strategy.

World Liberty Financial faces backlash over a vesting plan that locks early investors out of 80% of their WLFI tokens for two more years.

CoreWeave secured a $6 billion deal with Jane Street to power AI-driven trading and research operations. Jane Street also invested $1 billion in stock.

Deutsche Börse is buying into Kraken, investing $200 million for a stake in Payward Inc. The deal values Kraken at $13.3 billion, pending regulatory approval.

Kraken has refused to pay criminals who attempted to extort the cryptocurrency exchange, threatening to leak videos showing internal systems.

StarkWare is restructuring, cutting jobs, and splitting into two units to focus on products that rely on their technology stack and have clear monetization paths.

European banks and corporations are done talking about stablecoins. They're launching them. Major financial institutions are selecting infrastructure partners.

CoreWeave has secured an $8.5 billion loan to expand its AI data-center infrastructure. It's one of the largest financings in the emerging GPU cloud services sector.

Stablecoin transaction volume could surge to $1.5 quadrillion annually by 2035. That's according to blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis.

Anthropic has restricted access to its AI model Claude Mythos due to safety concerns. The model excels at finding software vulnerabilities.

Americans lost more than $11 billion to cryptocurrency and AI-enabled scams in 2025. That's according to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center report.

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon acknowledges blockchain's impact on finance. Blockchain-based competitors are reshaping the financial landscape.

Drift Protocol faces potential legal liability for negligence. A North Korea-aligned hacking group exploited poor security practices.

A legal fight over prediction markets might reach the U.S. Supreme Court. It's about who gets to regulate these platforms.

Neo co-founder Da Hongfei proposes a $461 million restructuring plan, dismantling the "trust me" governance model. The overhaul would relocate the Neo Foundation.

AllUnity is pushing its euro stablecoin EURAU deeper into DeFi, deploying liquidity pools on major exchanges including Uniswap and Raydium.

Alibaba has ended its free AI coding tool, Qwen Code, slashing daily requests by 90%. Developers must now pay $50 monthly or switch tools.

The U.S. SEC has issued new guidance allowing certain DeFi interfaces to operate without registering as broker-dealers, marking a regulatory shift.

XRP Ledger is integrating privacy technology from Boundless to enable confidential transactions on a public blockchain without exposing sensitive information.

South Korea's financial regulator is cracking down on automated crypto trading as API-based activity now accounts for 30% of the trading volume.

Bitcoin and Ethereum futures open interest surged by $2.1 billion and $2.2 billion respectively over 24 hours, signaling renewed speculative appetite.

The DOJ and CFTC filed a motion to block Arizona from enforcing gambling laws on Kalshi, highlighting a state vs. federal clash over prediction markets.

The US Treasury is moving forward with the GENIUS Act. It's a 2025 law that establishes rules for payment stablecoins.

BitMEX commodity perpetual swaps exploded by 65,463% in Q1 2026. Weekly trading surged from $38.1 million to $25 billion due to geopolitical tensions.

A major cryptocurrency exchange is partnering with a blockchain protocol to boost security and transaction speeds. The launch is set for next quarter.

Major altcoins are showing surprising strength despite market turbulence. Grayscale notes resilience in Ethereum, Solana, and Chainlink.

Flow Capital Partners is tokenizing its $150 million private credit fund on blockchain, planning to raise an additional $30 million by the end of 2026.

Ramp Network has launched a multichain self-custodial wallet integrating on-ramp, off-ramp, and cross-chain functions directly into a single app.

Bitwise Asset Management launched a spot Avalanche ETP on the NYSE, offering direct exposure to AVAX with an annual yield of about 5.4%.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies purchased 71,524 ETH, pushing its total to 4.87 million tokens—about 4.04% of Ethereum's supply, per CoinGecko data.

X's head of product Nikita Bier just hinted at something. The platform's working on a crypto feature. That's sparked speculation about Bitcoin.

The European Central Bank wants tokenization in EU capital markets. But it's setting strict terms, requiring central bank money and strong regulation.

A hacker exploited Hyperbridge, minting 1 billion bridged DOT tokens on Ethereum and draining $237,000 in crypto.

Three U.S. senators are raising concerns about a memecoin event at Mar-a-Lago. They're questioning whether access to President Trump is being sold.

YouTube is launching an AI-powered avatar feature allowing creators to generate videos using a digital version of their own face and voice.

Joe Schiarizzi, a 30-year-old Ethereum developer, runs for Congress in Virginia's 7th District. He aims to use crypto to build public goods.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation proposed new rules for stablecoin issuers. Stablecoin holders won't get pass-through deposit insurance.

U.S. cryptocurrency fraud losses surged to $11.366 billion in 2025, a 22% jump from the previous year, according to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center.

A major crypto market structure bill could clear the Senate Banking Committee by April, according to Senator Bill Hagerty during a speech at Vanderbilt.