African payments company Flutterwave has received a new investment from blockchain firm Ripple during its Series E funding round. This deal values Flutterwave at $3.25 billion and makes Ripple an official shareholder in the company.  As part of...

DeFi lending platforms have hit an on-chain leverage ratio of roughly 38%, matching the peak of the 2021 bull market.  Data from Binance Research shows this spike is not due to a surge in new borrowing. Instead, it...

Imagine that Bitcoin is set to crash by 20% within the next two hours. You’re an experienced trader, and correctly anticipating the drop, open a heavily leveraged short position at the very top. As the market plummets, your...

North Africa’s economy is changing. For quite a while, Morocco did not allow “digital money”. In November 2017, the Office des Changes and Bank Al-Maghrib made all bitcoin and virtual currency transactions illegal. Anyone caught was to face...

Haedal Protocol has paused several deposit vaults after reporting a sudden drop in liquidity. The Sui-based liquid staking platform, supported by Hashed and OKX Ventures, announced the move on June 9, 2026.  According to the team, the disruption...

Yuga Labs CEO Michael Figge confirmed the team completed a whitehat operation to rescue dozens of at-risk NFTs from an exploit discovered in Flooring Protocol. The intervention successfully secured 68 high-value digital assets, preventing their liquidation in vulnerable...

BitGo MENA has launched an institutional electronic trading platform for digital assets in the Middle East and North Africa. The new service operates under a Broker-Dealer license from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority and combines automated trade execution...

U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis urged lawmakers to back the CLARITY Act, calling it an important move to help the United States keep its lead in global finance as digital assets change the market. Lummis wrote on X that...

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has asked a federal judge to cancel a $5 million penalty and injunction against Gemini Trust Company. The agency now says its 2022 lawsuit, which accused Gemini of making false statements...

Phishing scammers have stolen more than $400,000 by placing fake sponsored ads on Google that look like the real Uniswap website. These ads appeared at the top of search results and sent users to phishing sites that emptied...