Ethan Brooks

Citadel Securities invested $400 million in Crypto.com at a $20 billion valuation, according to an announcement on Thursday. The funding will accelerate Crypto.com's expansion into tokenized securities and derivatives as blockchain technology disrupts traditional finance. This marks Crypto.com's

Dutch cryptocurrency platform Knaken has been declared bankrupt by a Rotterdam court after prosecutors said approximately €7 million ($8.1 million) in customer funds could not be accounted for. The ruling issued Thursday also placed Stichting Knaken Payments, the foundation established to

Ricardo Salinas anchored a $40 million raise for ORANGE JUICE on July 15, 2026. Lyn Alden announced the fundraise from the company's headquarters in Westport, Connecticut. The firm targets businesses generating $1 million to $10 million in annual cash flow and plans to hold acquisitions

The dollar-pegged stablecoin market reached approximately $316 billion in total capitalization by June 2026, with Tether USDT at $187 billion and Circle USDC at $75 billion controlling 83% of supply, according to DefiLlama on-chain data. The GENIUS Act, signed into law on July 18, 2025,

Gabriel Perez, President Donald Trump's teleprompter operator for about a decade, is in negotiations with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over allegations that he used insider knowledge to place bets on Kalshi about Trump's speeches, according to ABC News on Thursday. The alleged bets

Three men in the UK were sentenced to prison terms ranging from six years nine months to eleven years after orchestrating a cryptocurrency theft scheme that netted $5.4 million by impersonating police officers and creating fake police websites. Hamza Bashir, Kevin Nwamma, and Anthony Ikenwe

The US Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution on Wednesday declaring that former FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried should not receive executive clemency. The nonbinding resolution, S.Res. 772, was introduced by Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), chair and ranking me

The U.S. Treasury designated four cryptocurrency wallets linked to the Central Bank of Iran, prompting stablecoin issuer Tether to freeze approximately $131 million in USDT held at the sanctioned addresses. The action follows a designation update by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign

Tokenization platform Tradable announced Thursday plans to bring up to $1 billion in private credit assets onto the Stellar blockchain, expanding institutional access to tokenized real-world assets. The company said $500 million in notional value is expected to be available when the initiative