Lending out crypto for interest is one of the established ways to earn passive income in the space, but the terminology around it gets muddled often enough that it's worth sorting out first. True peer-to-peer lending means one...
Web3 and the metaverse get mentioned together so often that it's easy to assume they're the same thing. They aren't. Web3 is a way of building the internet's underlying infrastructure. The metaverse is a category of experience, shared,...
Every blockchain has to solve one basic problem. See it this way: Thousands of computers around the world are keeping a copy of the same ledger, and none of them reports to a boss who can settle disputes....
OpenAI said on Tuesday that an unreleased internal model, running roughly 10,000 AI agents over 88 hours, produced a proof tied to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems the Clay Mathematics Institute...
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...
DeFi wallets are used to manage digital assets and interact with different DeFi protocols such as lending platforms, decentralized exchanges, and staking services. They allow users to safely access the tools shaping the future of finance. The DeFi...
In November 2025, the Bank of England opened a consultation on how it would regulate systemic pound-backed stablecoins, and the proposed terms were strict. Individuals would have been capped at holding £20,000 in stablecoins, businesses at £10 million....
When Bitget announced Cash Plus, a lot of people saw it as another crypto earn product that allows users to convert USDT or USDC into a yield-generating balance while keeping their funds liquid for future trading. The product...
Three new rehabilitation courts were opened in South Korea (Daejeon, Daegu, and Gwangju) in March 2026, and one of their first moves was to make crypto losses easier to walk away from. Under new guidelines, debts tied to...
Trezor has confirmed that a data breach at ShipMonk, the third-party fulfillment provider that ships Trezor Shop orders in several markets, exposed personal information belonging to roughly 13,689 customers. The hardware wallet maker told DeFi Planet its own...
