Technology
Sending ETH to a new address is about to cost more, and some wallets will quote you the old price
Ethereum's next upgrade ends the flat fee that every simple ETH transfer has carried since day one. Wallets built around the old number will get your sum wrong, so check before you send.
CoinDesk, with additional reporting from Decrypt
4 weeks ago · 5 min read
Policy
The SEC has finally written crypto rules down. They aren’t rules yet.
Regulation Crypto is the first time the SEC has tried to write rules for tokens rather than squeeze them into securities law from 1933. It still has to survive a comment period and a vote, and it changes nothing for UK holders.
CoinDesk and Cointelegraph
4 weeks ago · 5 min read
Business
A Korean bank signed up with Ripple. That doesn’t tell you anything about XRP
Jeonbuk Bank will use Ripple's payments platform for cross-border business transfers. Nobody has said whether XRP is involved, and the difference matters more than the headline does.
Cointelegraph and CoinDesk
4 weeks ago · 4 min read
Policy
Four empty seats could freeze Cardano’s treasury on 1 September
Four of the seven seats on Cardano's Constitutional Committee expire in the first days of September, and the replacements still need an on-chain vote to pass. Here's what actually stops if it doesn't, and what carries on regardless.
CryptoSlate, with warnings published by Intersect
4 weeks ago · 8 min read
Policy
The stablecoin rule isn’t about owning them. It’s about who can sell them.
Treasury has proposed rules setting out which platforms may sell stablecoins to US customers from 2027. Nothing in it stops anyone holding one, and that distinction is the whole story.
Decrypt and The Defiant
4 weeks ago · 5 min read
Business
Getting paid in crypto? Bitstamp is reportedly drawing a line at €1,000
A notice circulating among Bitstamp customers says crypto deposits over €1,000 sent from a wallet in someone else's name will be automatically rejected from 18 August. The exchange hasn't confirmed it, and nobody has said which entities or countries it covers.
CryptoSlate
4 weeks ago · 5 min read
Technology
SafePal breach exposed the order details of nearly 40,000 wallet owners
No coins moved and no keys were taken. What leaked was the customer paperwork: order information for nearly 40,000 people, and the fact that each of them owns a device built to hold crypto.
The Block, CoinDesk and Cointelegraph
4 weeks ago · 6 min read
Policy
Fake account migration emails are following the EU’s MiCA deadline
Crypto users across the EU spent months receiving genuine emails telling them their accounts had to move to a newly licensed company. Fraudsters have started sending the same emails, and UK holders on EU platforms are getting them too.
CoinDesk
4 weeks ago · 5 min read
Business
The bitcoin didn’t move. The share count went up 18-fold.
GD Culture Group booked a $211.8m paper loss on its 7,500 bitcoin and didn't sell a coin of the core reserve. Its split-adjusted share count is now more than 18 times where it sat at the end of last year.
CryptoSlate and CoinDesk
4 weeks ago · 5 min read
DeFi
Why banks are fighting to stop your stablecoin paying you 4%
US law already bars stablecoin issuers from paying interest, and the banking lobby wants the remaining gaps closed too. The argument is made on financial stability grounds, but underneath it is a fight over cheap deposits.
CoinDesk, with additional reporting from CryptoSlate
4 weeks ago · 7 min read