BitMEX co-founder pledges $27M to London maths institute after Trump pardon
Ben Delo paid a $10 million fine after pleading guilty to US banking violations in 2022 and was granted a pardon by President Donald Trump in March 2025.
Bank of Japan testing blockchain settlement for bank deposits in new sandbox
BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda said the experiments will examine links between blockchain systems and Japan’s existing settlement infrastructure.
Core Scientific shares move lower as Q4 earnings miss estimates
Core Scientific missed revenue expectations in the fourth quarter as Bitcoin miners were squeezed by lower prices and higher costs.
Bitcoin is forming a bottom as the 4-year cycle ends: VanEck CEO
Jan van Eck suggested that analysts have been overcomplicating recent Bitcoin price action, arguing that the four-year cycle has been the main driver holding prices down.
‘ClickFix’ hackers pose as VCs, hijack QuickLens in latest crypto attacks
The ClickFix technique gained popularity among crypto hackers last year, but security researchers have been tracking it since 2024, with targets spanning several industries.
Bitcoin slide slowing, but bear market still in play: Analysts
Compressed volatility, strengthening ETF flows, and a diminished Coinbase discount “are not characteristics of a market accelerating into a fresh leg lower,” said 10x Research.
OpenZeppelin finds data contamination in OpenAI’s EVMbench
Security auditor OpenZepplin found that EVMbench’s dataset contains training data leaks and at least four invalid high-severity vulnerability classifications.
Nasdaq files for prediction market-style options on Nasdaq-100
The offering could enable traders to bet on the stock performance of Nasdaq-100 companies such as Nvidia, Apple, Google and Tesla.
Senate housing bill amendment proposes to block US CBDC until 2030
The proposed prohibition was slipped into a Senate housing bill, reviving language used in previous standalone bills to block a Fed-issued US digital dollar.
Uniswap beats class action alleging it assisted crypto ‘rug pulls’
A federal judge said Uniswap isn’t responsible for scam tokens traded on the crypto platform, a decision that its founder Hayden Adams said was a “sensible outcome.”