Checker has raised $8 million to help banks and fintechs launch stablecoin products without building the blockchain mess from scratch, and that’s a far more serious business than most of the crypto circus surrounding it. $8 million raised across pre-seed and seed rounds Over $3 billion in transaction volume processed in the last 12 months […]
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Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini are pressuring U.S. senators to kill a crypto token-listing rule they say would slam the door on smaller assets before they ever reach regulated markets. Exchanges want the listing ban removed Senate bill targets tokens “not readily susceptible to manipulation” Fight pits market access against anti-fraud safeguards The fight centers on […]
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Checker has raised $8 million to do the unglamorous but increasingly valuable work of making stablecoins usable for institutions that need payments, liquidity, treasury, and credit without duct-taping a dozen vendors together. $8 million raised from Galaxy Ventures, Al Mada Ventures, and Framework Ventures $3 billion in TPV processed in the past 12 months, according […]
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A White House official says an update on a possible U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is coming “soon,” but the market is getting that tease while Treasury yields climb, geopolitical tensions simmer, and stablecoin businesses fight over who keeps the juice from reserve assets. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve: Washington says “soon,” but details are still missing. Macro […]
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Echo Protocol has paused bridge activity after an attacker minted roughly 1,000 unauthorized eBTC on its Monad deployment, creating about $76.7 million in fake synthetic Bitcoin exposure while extracting only a fraction of that value so far. About 1,000 unauthorized eBTC were minted Roughly $76.7 million in synthetic Bitcoin exposure was created The likely cause […]
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Japan’s Financial Services Agency is carving out a qualified path for foreign trust-type stablecoins under new payment rules, a move that could widen access to regulated stablecoin use without turning the market into a compliance-free junk drawer. Japan’s FSA is opening a qualified path for foreign trust-type stablecoins The change sits under new payment rules […]
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ECHO token plunged after Echo Protocol suffered an admin key compromise that let an attacker mint about $76.7 million in unauthorized eBTC, a Bitcoin-linked synthetic asset that was then pushed through DeFi borrowing and bridging flows. Admin key compromise triggered the exploit ~1,000 eBTC minted without collateral ECHO fell over 11% after the breach became […]
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South Korea’s biggest banking group has completed a won-pegged stablecoin pilot that actually did something useful — while the country’s regulators are still stuck in a turf war over who gets to control the rails. KB Financial Group finished a won-denominated stablecoin trial Payments, merchant settlement, and remittances were tested on blockchain infrastructure QR payments […]
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Wall Street’s blockchain pivot just got regulatory rocket fuel, and the SEC’s expected move could push tokenized stocks from niche experiment toward actual market plumbing. SEC innovation exemption could loosen the path for tokenized stocks Nasdaq, NYSE, and DTCC are already building the rails 24/7 trading and faster settlement are the big selling points Infrastructure […]
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An Ohio investment manager has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for running a Bitcoin trading Ponzi scheme that prosecutors say pulled in more than $10 million from investors sold the oldest lie in finance: guaranteed returns with no real risk. 9 years in federal prison More than $10 million raised “Guaranteed” Bitcoin […]
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