If you were hoping the US would finally get proper crypto rules this year, this week was a letdown. The CLARITY Act, the bill meant to spell out who regulates what in crypto, is as good as dead...
Real-world asset (RWA) tokenization has grown into a global market worth roughly $40 billion in distributed, on-chain value as of Q3 2026, up from around $29 billion just a year earlier. Africa is often mentioned in discussions about...
Germany is scrapping its crypto tax exemption law. The country has one of the most generous crypto tax exemptions anywhere in the developed world. Under the current law, Bitcoin and other digital assets held for more than a...
The US used its turn as G20 president to do something ambitious this week. It got the world's largest economies to agree to back off AI regulation and stop piling on new rules. It got this done through...
Most people don’t question how decentralized DeFi is until something goes wrong. When things run smoothly, it seems open, borderless, and run by code alone. But when issues arise, users often discover limits they hadn’t noticed. This is...
Within the first six months of 2026, France recorded more crypto-related kidnappings than it did in all of 2025. No longer sticking to online hacks, attackers are now physically targeting people with large cryptoasset holdings. One victim was...
One of the persistent pain points in Web3 today is scalability. As more users flock to decentralized applications (dApps), blockchain networks often strain under the load, congestion, high gas fees, and slow performance, particularly during high-traffic events like...
In traditional payment systems, where cards or bank transfers are used, refunds and chargebacks are a normal part of the process. If you buy something online and it goes wrong, you can often dispute the transaction with your...
Canada had enough of Trump’s tariff slams this week and didn’t keep quiet. “We will match US tariffs dollar-for-dollar”, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced after trade talks with Washington fell apart. Trump had earlier announced a 50%...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu signed the Presidential Executive Order on Virtual Assets Coordination, 2026, on July 17, 2026, establishing Nigeria's most comprehensive attempt yet to coordinate oversight of its digital asset sector. The Order creates a Virtual Asset...
