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Kraken parent Payward partners with GTN to scale xStocks internationally, beyond US equities

Kraken parent Payward partners with GTN to scale xStocks internationally, beyond US equities

Kraken parent company Payward has partnered with fintech infrastructure provider GTN to expand its xStock tokenization offering across the globe, according to an announcement on Wednesday.The collaboration will begin by tokenizing equities from Hong Kong and then expand to the UK, Europe, South Kore…

Coinbase says ‘low-risk’ config change behind 50-minute July 14 outage impacting trading, card transactions

Coinbase says ‘low-risk’ config change behind 50-minute July 14 outage impacting trading, card transactions

Coinbase posted a concise post-mortem on Tuesday explaining the cause behind an approximately 50-minute, platform-wide outage that occurred last week.The disruption, running from 12:37 PM ET to about 1:25 PM ET on July 14, knocked out retail and institutional trading, deposits and withdrawals, Coinb…

Bitget plans US expansion ‘with or without’ Clarity Act, CEO says

Bitget plans US expansion ‘with or without’ Clarity Act, CEO says

Bitget is preparing to enter the United States after years of keeping its distance, according to CEO Gracy Chen, who said the expansion will happen regardless of whether Congress passes sweeping crypto legislation."With or without the Clarity Act, Bitget has already made a decision to enter the U.S.…

Russia passes landmark crypto bill allowing regulated retail trading

Russia passes landmark crypto bill allowing regulated retail trading

Russia's State Duma passed a landmark crypto bill on Tuesday that brings digital asset trading under government oversight while opening the market to retail investors.The legislation primarily establishes rules for crypto exchanges, custodians and brokers, which will need to join a special registry …

Aztec upgrades to V5 in alpha, adding full private execution environment to decentralized Ethereum L2

Aztec upgrades to V5 in alpha, adding full private execution environment to decentralized Ethereum L2

Crypto privacy project Aztec has released its v5 upgrade in alpha, taking a step toward making fully private transactions "the default" in the Ethereum ecosystem, Aztec co-founder Zac Williamson told The Block in an interview.The update, passed by token-holder governance and executed onchain on Tues…

Allbridge Core pauses protocol after $1.65 million flash loan exploit: onchain analysts

Allbridge Core pauses protocol after $1.65 million flash loan exploit: onchain analysts

Cross-chain bridge Allbridge Core has been exploited for roughly $1.65 million, as flagged by multiple blockchain security firms, and the team has paused the protocol for investigation.According to blockchain analysis provider Onchain Lens, the exploiter used a $1.12 million flash loan from Solana-b…

Trezor exec pushes back on ZachXBT claim that hardware wallets are ‘complete garbage’

Trezor exec pushes back on ZachXBT claim that hardware wallets are ‘complete garbage’

Trezor Chief Commercial Officer Danny Sanders pushed back on blockchain investigator ZachXBT's recent criticisms of crypto hardware wallets."All hardware wallets are complete garbage, and I do not advise using them for important tasks like signing transactions or storing funds," ZachXBT wrote in a p…