Category: Peer to Peer

CertiK has warned that attackers are using artificial intelligence to scan ageing smart contracts for exploitable flaws, raising the risk level for decentralised finance projects that still rely on older code, inherited protocol designs and under-maintained deployments.The blockchain security firm’s May 15 alert points to a shift in the economics of crypto attacks. Vulnerability hunting that once required time, specialist knowledge and manual review can now be accelerated by AI systems trained to recognise recurring weaknesses across thousands of contracts.

Kelp DAO has moved rsETH back towards normal operations after a $292 million April exploit exposed weaknesses in cross-chain verification and triggered one of decentralised finance’s largest recovery efforts of the year.The liquid restaking protocol, working with Aave and other ecosystem participants, has completed the burn of exploiter-linked rsETH on Arbitrum and begun restoring the token’s backing through a staged refill into the LayerZero OFT adapter on Ethereum mainnet. The recovery covers 117,132 rsETH, with funds drawn from the Aave

XRP has returned to the centre of speculative crypto trading after market commentator X Finance Bull argued that the token could be nearing a sharp breakout, citing the XRP Ledger’s rising position in real-world asset tokenisation and renewed interest in institutional blockchain settlement.The call has focused attention on a possible move towards $10, a level that would require XRP to rise more than sevenfold from about $1.42, where it has been trading with a market value near $88 billion. Such

Ethereum is entering a critical trading phase as BitMine Immersion Technologies pushes its corporate treasury close to 5 per cent of the network’s total supply, sharpening debate over whether concentrated accumulation can support prices or magnify volatility.The token was trading near $2,227 on Saturday, after slipping during the session from an intraday high above $2,310. The move kept ether above the $2,100 level watched by some market participants as a sign of improving momentum, but it also showed how fragile

Crypto exchange MEXC has closed its first USD1 event series with more than 161,000 participants and $2.4 billion in futures trading volume from new users, underscoring how fee promotions and stablecoin-linked incentives are reshaping competition among digital asset platforms.The campaign, which ended on May 13, centred on USD1, the dollar-pegged stablecoin associated with World Liberty Financial. MEXC positioned the initiative as part of its wider 0-fee strategy, offering users lower-cost access to spot and futures markets while using prize pools

Bitcoin traders are positioning for a possible push towards $90,000 after the CLARITY Act cleared a key Senate committee vote, giving digital asset markets their strongest regulatory signal from Washington this year.The largest cryptocurrency traded near $80,600 on Friday after briefly testing the $82,000 area, with market participants watching whether legislative momentum in the United States can extend a rally that has already lifted sentiment across tokens and crypto-linked equities. A clean break above the $82,000–$83,000 band is being viewed

Circle’s first-quarter results have sharpened investor focus on whether its planned Arc network can turn USDC’s growing scale into a broader valuation story beyond reserve income.The stablecoin issuer reported total revenue and reserve income of $694 million for the first quarter of 2026, up 20 per cent from a year earlier, while USDC in circulation reached $77 billion at quarter-end. The operating picture, however, was more nuanced. Net income fell to $55 million from $65 million a year earlier, showing

Ondo Finance has opened a new route for tokenised US stocks and exchange-traded funds to move onto Hyperliquid, using LayerZero’s interoperability infrastructure to connect assets from Ethereum and BNB Chain to Hyperliquid’s HyperEVM environment.The move gives eligible users a way to transfer Ondo’s tokenised equity products through the Ondo Bridge and deploy them within one of decentralised finance’s most active trading ecosystems. The initial rollout covers 35 tokenised assets, including instruments linked to the SPDR S&P 500 ETF, Invesco QQQ

Dogecoin held near the 11-cent level after a volatile trading stretch, with large holders increasing their exposure even as the wider digital asset market continued to absorb selling pressure and cautious positioning across major tokens.The world’s largest memecoin by market value traded in a tight band after retreating earlier in the week, reflecting a market caught between renewed speculative appetite and resistance from profit-taking. Its latest price action has been shaped by whale accumulation, shifting derivatives activity and renewed comparisons

Washington’s push to regulate digital assets has entered a sharper phase after Senator Bernie Moreno accused major banks of trying to block stablecoin competition as Congress prepares for a decisive test of the CLARITY Act this week.Moreno, a Republican from Ohio and one of the Senate’s most vocal crypto advocates, said the “banking cartel” was “in full panic mode” over legislation that could reshape the relationship between conventional finance and digital money. His intervention followed an intensified lobbying drive by

Binance Bahrain has renewed its ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27701 certifications, strengthening its information security and privacy credentials as regulated crypto platforms face rising scrutiny over user protection, operational resilience and compliance standards across the Gulf.The Manama-based crypto asset platform said the renewed certifications cover its information security management and privacy information management systems. The development places data governance at the centre of its Bahrain operations, where digital asset firms are being pushed to demonstrate stronger internal controls as adoption

ForexCoupons. com has launched from London as a specialist coupon and discount-code platform aimed at forex, cryptocurrency, proprietary trading and wider retail trading users, entering a crowded online market where traders face rising costs, uneven transparency and tougher regulatory scrutiny.The website presents itself as a dedicated savings portal for traders seeking verified promotional codes on broker services, crypto exchanges, prop-firm evaluations, funded-account programmes, trading tools, signal services and related subscriptions. Its launch pitch places proprietary trading firms at the centre

Starknet is moving Bitcoin deeper into decentralised finance with strkBTC, a 1:1 Bitcoin-backed wrapper designed to let holders choose between public transfers and shielded transactions while keeping access to Starknet-based trading, lending, staking and collateral markets. The asset is due to go live on May 12, 2026, after governance approval for proposals defining the wrapper and making it eligible for staking on the network.strkBTC’s central pitch is that Bitcoin can become more useful on-chain without forcing every balance, counterparty

Bitcoin’s April rally lifted the broader digital-asset market, with the Coinbase 50 Index advancing 11.05 per cent for the month as investors moved back into major tokens and higher-risk pockets such as memecoins. The rebound marked a sharp shift from the pressure seen earlier in 2026, though the market remains well below the speculative peaks that defined the previous cycle.COIN50, a benchmark tracking 50 of the largest and most liquid digital assets, remained heavily concentrated in Bitcoin and Ethereum

World Liberty Financial’s leadership has moved to contain a wave of online speculation over the Trump-linked crypto venture, with Donald Trump Jr. and chief executive Zach Witkoff insisting the project remains intact even as its legal dispute with Tron founder Justin Sun deepens.Trump Jr., speaking at the Consensus crypto conference in Miami on Thursday, rejected claims that he and other members of the Trump family had walked away from the company. Witkoff, a co-founder and chief executive, said he had

Perpetual decentralised exchanges are drawing stronger trading volumes but still face a credibility gap with institutional investors, as market participants at Consensus Miami pointed to security risk, identity checks and compliance uncertainty as the main obstacles to wider adoption.The discussion, held under the session title “Perp DEX Explosion: Bullish Volumes & Bear Market Resilience”, reflected a broader divide in digital asset markets. Banks, family offices, hedge funds and asset managers have become more comfortable with exposure to Bitcoin and major

Coinbase users faced prolonged disruption to crypto trading after an Amazon Web Services failure in northern Virginia impaired parts of the exchange’s platform for more than five hours, leaving customers unable to execute some transactions while engineers worked to restore normal access.The outage affected Coinbase’s website, mobile services and Advanced Trade functions, with the exchange reporting degraded performance across key retail and professional trading channels. Coinbase said customer funds remained safe and linked the disruption to a problem at AWS,

Wall Street’s biggest financial groups are expanding digital-asset hiring, signalling that blockchain, tokenisation and crypto-linked trading are moving deeper into mainstream finance after years of caution.BlackRock, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley have advertised a fresh batch of roles tied to digital assets, blockchain engineering, tokenised products, risk controls and wealth-management infrastructure. The openings span senior product posts, software engineering, fraud-risk oversight, programme management and operations strategy, showing that crypto hiring is no longer confined to small innovation labs or speculative

NEAR Protocol rallied sharply on Thursday as traders returned to artificial intelligence-linked digital assets, lifting one of the main layer-1 tokens tied to blockchain-based AI infrastructure and cross-chain automation.The token rose more than 13 per cent over 24 hours, trading near $1.47 after reaching an intraday high of about $1.54. The move placed NEAR among the stronger large-cap altcoins during a session marked by renewed appetite for infrastructure tokens rather than purely speculative meme assets. Bitcoin traded around $80,700, giving

Tether is positioning USDT as a core payments and liquidity layer for the Bitcoin economy, with chief executive Paolo Ardoino framing the stablecoin issuer’s strategy as a long-term infrastructure project rather than a conventional crypto trading business.Ardoino has likened the company’s approach to Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, arguing that durable systems must be built before periods of financial stress expose weaknesses in existing institutions. The comparison reflects Tether’s wider effort to present USDT not merely as a dollar-pegged token for

Ethereum Foundation has sold another 10,000 ETH to BitMine Immersion Technologies through an over-the-counter transaction, extending a series of treasury sales that has drawn scrutiny from the crypto market as staking withdrawals climb and institutional ETH accumulation intensifies.The latest deal was priced at an average of $2,292.15 per ETH, raising about $22.9 million for the non-profit organisation behind Ethereum’s core development ecosystem. It followed a 10,000 ETH sale one week earlier at about $2,387 per token, taking the two back-to-back

 TON has moved to the front of the Layer-1 speed debate after a fresh comparison of blockchain finalisation times placed The Open Network ahead of major rivals on the time required for transactions to become irreversible.The assessment, conducted in April 2026, compared leading Layer-1 networks by finalisation time and put TON’s block finalisation at about 0.6 seconds, with total transaction finality under one second when shardchain confirmation is included. That figure gives TON a narrow technical edge over Avalanche, BNB

Bullish has agreed to acquire Equiniti from Siris Capital in a $4.2 billion transaction that marks one of the largest moves yet by a crypto exchange into mainstream capital markets infrastructure.The deal gives Bullish control of a regulated transfer agent serving nearly 3,000 issuer clients, 15,000 corporate clients and more than 20 million shareholders. Equiniti processes about $500 billion in annual payments, making it a significant back-office platform for public companies, shareholder communications, dividend administration and ownership records.The transaction is

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson’s claim that he has been kept outside crypto’s most powerful policy and industry circles has sharpened a wider argument over influence, visibility and technical delivery in the digital-asset sector.Hoskinson, who co-founded Ethereum before building Cardano through Input Output Global, said in an interview that he had been excluded from key conversations despite Cardano’s sustained engineering output. His remarks landed as development metrics showed Cardano ahead of several larger-profile networks in cumulative code activity, adding weight to