Category: Cryptocurrency
Indonesian Authorities Used Crypto Data to Convict Criminals
Onchain evidence was key to securing the conviction of three individuals for terrorism financing in Indonesia in 2024 and 2025, reflecting a clear shift in the way...
Chaos Labs Leaves Aave Due to Budget, Risk Disagreements
Chaos Labs has parted ways with the Aave ecosystem after serving as the crypto lending protocol’s main risk service provider for three years, citing a budget dispute...
China’s Tax Authority Urges Bank Blockchain Implementations for Lending
China’s tax and financial regulators on Monday urged banks and local authorities to use blockchain and privacy computing to upgrade the “bank-tax interaction”...
Perp DEX Trading Cools as Volumes Slides For Five Straight Months
Onchain perpetual futures trading has cooled for five straight months since peaking in October 2025. Perp volume on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) fell to $699 billion...
Rwanda Warns Against Bybit FRW to Crypto Offering
The National Bank of Rwanda (NBR) has warned the public that crypto payments and trades using the local currency remain illegal in the country after Bybit added support...
Execution Risk In Crypto Is The New Custody Risk
Opinion by: Ido Sofer, founder and CEO at Sodot. The crypto industry is normally well ahead of its game when it comes to pure innovation and functionality, but security...
Dmail Network To Shut Down Decentralized Email Service
Decentralized email platform Dmail Network is shutting down after five years of operations, citing high infrastructure costs, weak monetization, failed funding efforts...
Ethereum L2s Need Responsive Pricing to Scale, Says Offchain Labs
Ethereum layer-2 networks need “responsive pricing” to scale to billions of users and reduce the fee swings that still accompany congestion, Offchain Labs co-founder...
Aave V3 Avoided Unrecovered Bad Debt From 2023 to 2025: Study
A Bank of Canada staff paper found that Aave V3 reported zero non-performing loans in 2024, with overcollateralization and automated liquidations helping prevent lender...
Effect of Tokenization on Financial Stability Not Clear
The International Monetary Fund said tokenization has the potential to remove friction and boost transparency in finance, but warned that the technology could also...
Frane’s Lise To Host Fully Onchain IPO With ST Group Listing
French blockchain-based stock exchange Lightning Stock Exchange (Lise) is preparing to host what it describes as a fully onchain initial public offering (IPO), listing...
DeFi Is Optimizing For gas, Not For Markets
Opinion by: João Garcia, DevReal lead at Cartesi.Decentralized finance presents itself as a transparent alternative to Wall Street. Yet, what it has largely...
