Ripple Eyes $20B Circle Takeover
Ripple’s M&A appetite is ballooning almost as fast as the stablecoin market it hopes to dominate. Bloomberg sources say the San Francisco‑based payments company has quietly upped its offer for Circle…
Ripple’s M&A appetite is ballooning almost as fast as the stablecoin market it hopes to dominate. Bloomberg sources say the San Francisco‑based payments company has quietly upped its offer for Circle…
Google just too a decisive step toward mainstreaming privacy‑preserving cryptography. In a Wednesday update, the tech giant revealed that Google Wallet now supports zero‑knowledge proofs (ZKPs) for age verification, letting users…
For years, Kuwait’s ultralow power prices—about $0.029 per kWh—made the desert state a sleeper paradise for proof‑of‑work miners. What began as hobby rigs humming in hot apartments soon grew into warehouse‑scale farms,…
Kazakhstan’s government is drafting legislation that could turn the country’s fledgling digital-asset hub into a full-scale banking laboratory for crypto. Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov told lawmakers on Apr. 25 that…
When Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Ukraine’s First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko put pen to paper in Washington this week, they did more than sign another bilateral memorandum. They…
Base, the Ethereum layer-2 chain incubated by Coinbase, has crossed a symbolic but concrete threshold in its march toward trust-minimized scaling. In a blog post on April 29, the team…
Mastercard has taken its most decisive step yet into digital assets, announcing it will let merchants settle card payments in regulated stablecoins such as Circle’s USDC and Paxos’s USDP. The…
The organization that funds and coordinates the second-largest blockchain just rewired its chain of command. In a move designed to sharpen execution and restore the network’s competitive edge, the Ethereum…