<p>In 2018, when Bitcoin was trading around $4,000 and most Americans, at least, thought cryptocurrency was a fad, Katie Haun found herself on a debate stage in Mexico City opposite Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist. As Krugman focused on Bitcoin&#8217;s wild price swings, Haun steered the conversation toward something else — stablecoins.</p>

<p>It&#8217;s the latest cyberattack on Iran claimed by a pro-Israeli hacking group since the latest flare up in tensions between the two countries.</p>

<p>Own is the latest alternative to TikTok to emerge in the market, featuring blockchain technology and a token economy. </p>

<p>X announced on Friday that it has partnered with Polymarket, naming it the platform’s official prediction market partner. </p>

<p>The USDC stablecoin issuer ended its first trading day at a 167% jump from its $31 IPO price.</p>

<p>GameStop&#8217;s recent interest in bitcoin isn&#8217;t as random as it may seem.</p>

<p>Robinhood revealed Tuesday that it’s acquiring Canadian crypto leader WonderFi for CA$250 million (around $178.56 million) in an all-cash deal as it pushes into Canada&#8217;s growing digital asset market. WonderFi operates two regulated crypto platforms, Bitbuy and Coinsquare, with over CA$2.1 billion in assets under custody. The transaction offers WonderFi shareholders CA$0.36 per share, representing [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Fintech giant Stripe announced Wednesday a slew of new product launches at its annual Stripe Sessions user event. The highlights include a new AI foundation model for payments; stablecoin-powered accounts; a new Orchestration offering, and a recent migration with chip behemoth Nvidia. Stripe’s payments foundation model has been trained on tens of billions of transactions, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>MoviePass, the startup that made its mark with its movie theater subscription service, has always been known for shaking things up, and its latest venture is no exception.  The company announced on Thursday the beta launch of Mogul, a new daily fantasy entertainment platform designed specifically for the Hollywood industry.  To understand what Mogul is, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A new animated kids’ series expected to premiere this year won’t be headed for a TV network. Or a streaming service.&nbsp;Instead, the founders of production studio We Ghosted Media plan to launch on a decentralized web platform that uses blockchain technology. And yes, a crypto wallet will be involved.&nbsp; We Ghosted Media — founded by [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A founder who has carved out a name for himself building products to help restaurants connect better with would-be diners has raised $50 million for his latest startup: a new take on the idea of customer loyalty.&nbsp; Blackbird Labs has built a payments-meets-loyalty-meets-blockchain platform for restaurants to grow repeat business while reducing some of the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>With President Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs coming out today — a day he is calling “Liberation Day” — a web3 startup thinks it could track tariffs automatically on goods coming into and out of the USA using its blockchain platform. The claim may well be bold — and typical of many such bold claims [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Circle, the issuer of USDC, a stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar, filed to go public on Tuesday. The company, which makes money from interest earned on its reserve assets, reported that its 2024 revenue and reserve income was $1.68 billion, up from $1.45 billion the year prior. Circle&#8217;s 2024 net income was $156 million, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>President Trump’s family has been weighing an investment in Binance.US, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The investment would come just a couple of years after Binance’s U.S. arm pleaded guilty to violating anti-money laundering regulation. As part of that guilty plea, Binance’s founder, Changpeng Zhao, better known as CZ, paid a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Telegram&#8217;s crypto wallet, developed by a third-party company called The Open Platform (TOP), has introduced new features for people who don&#8217;t just use Telegram as a messaging app. The updates include multi-asset trading and yield functionalities. Based on the TON blockchain, TOP launched the wallet in 2023. The company reported that over 100 million users [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Garantex co-founder Aleksej Besciokov was arrested in India&#8217;s Kerala on Tuesday, U.S. and Indian officials tell TechCrunch.</p>

<p>Russian crypto exchange Garantex has yet to directly address the international law enforcement operation that resulted in the seizure of its domains, and criminal charges against two of its administrators. </p>

<p>The administrators of Garantex, Aleksej Besciokov and Aleksandr Mira Serda, allegedly knew their crypto exchange was used to launder money, according to U.S. prosecutors.</p>

<p>An international coalition of law enforcement agencies seized the official website of Garantex, which has previously been sanctioned by the U.S. and E.U. governments.</p>

<p>Experts note that this is just the first step for the alleged North Korean hackers to profit from the historic heist. </p>