Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 5 days ago
A former infrastructure engineer at a New Jersey-based industrial company has been sentenced to 32 months in federal prison after admitting that he sabotaged his employer’s computer systems—and demanded roughly $750,000 in bitcoin to stop the attack....
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 5 days ago
TL;DR: BitGo and HashKey Cloud have expanded an earlier staking relationship into a broader Asia-Pacific partnership covering staking, trading, custody and real-world asset tokenization. HashKey will support validator services for eligible BitGo clie...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 5 days ago
Kalshi’s public data shows its 15-minute gold markets traded more contracts than their ether counterparts in September, their second month of operation. The short-duration markets now bring in most of the exchange’s non-sports fees. ...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 5 days ago
TL;DR: Kraken Pro has launched a trading competition around perpetual futures linked to Oura and Moonshot ahead of their anticipated IPOs. The contracts provide price exposure to the private companies without conferring shares or an allocation in any...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 5 days ago
Europol is pushing back on crypto’s quantum doomsday scenario. In a report published Wednesday, the agency says quantum computers pose a far greater threat to exposed wallet keys than to blockchains themselves, warning that vulnerable keys cannot be...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 5 days ago
TL;DR: Polymarket has begun testing Protocol V2, a major rebuild of the smart contracts behind its prediction markets. The architecture consolidates markets around a unified exchange system and pUSD collateral, with canary testing expected to continu...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 5 days ago
The crypto leaderboard has been anything but sleepy in 2026, with venice token (VVV) up a staggering 1,541% year to date and several others already sitting on triple-digit gains. With less than three months left, Bitcoin.com News asked several leadin...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 5 days ago
TL;DR: Binance is adding four bStocks tokenized securities as eligible collateral across Cross Margin, Portfolio Margin and Portfolio Margin Pro. The assets represent JPMorgan Chase, Eli Lilly, Securitize and StablecoinX, bringing tokenized equity ex...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 5 days ago
Moody’s has given Sky Protocol a B3 rating with a stable outlook, marking the agency’s first rating of a stablecoin protocol. But the report carries a sting: Sky held only about $90 million in tangible common equity against roughly $10 billion in tan...