Businesses looking to modernize their payment systems may want to learn what a crypto payment processor is, how it works, and why it matters. Cryptocurrency and the crypto industry at large often appear most prominently in investing circles, but recent advancements in blockchain, the technology that supports crypto, have expanded crypto’s usefulness. Today, businesses across industries […]
Nearly a million people who bought President Donald Trump’s $TRUMP memecoin have collectively lost $3.81 billion, according to an analysis by blockchain analytics firm Nansen. The data, which covers all transactions through the end of June, found that 988,905 of the token’s buyers are underwater. Trump earned $636 million from the same coin. His 927-page financial disclosure, […]
Crypto firms have spent years trying to convince banks that they’re safe to do business with. Even now, with far more regulation in place than a few years ago, plenty of those firms still get turned away at the door. Jelizaveta Paskovskaja, Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) at CryptoProcessing by Coinspaid, has a clear explanation for […]
Polymarket’s $345 million Iran peace bet is stuck because nobody can agree on what “permanent” means
Polymarket, the largest prediction market exchange, has more than $345 million in trading volume stuck in limbo over a question of semantics. Traders bet on whether the United States and Iran would sign a permanent peace deal. Both countries announced an agreement over the weekend, but it is not clear that the announcement meets the […]
Modern derivatives and digital asset markets operate under a persistent drag of operational friction. A recent Nasdaq survey reveals that 70% of global firms experience settlement failures on a daily basis. This structural inefficiency forces institutions to maintain excess overnight collateral buffers, tying up capital that could otherwise generate returns. The inability to mobilize assets […]
The two hacks came a little over two weeks apart. On 1 April, attackers drained roughly $285 million from Drift Protocol, a Solana-based derivatives exchange, after spending months posing as a quantitative trading firm to trick employees into authorising malicious transactions. On 18 April, a separate group exploited a single-verifier flaw in Kelp DAO’s […]
As gig platforms continue to expand globally, one of the biggest operational challenges they face is managing cross-border disbursements to an ever-growing network of freelancers, creators, and partners across multiple regions. While the gig economy thrives on flexibility and rapid growth, traditional banking systems, particularly wire transfers, struggle to keep up. These payment methods are […]
JPMorgan Chase filed paperwork on Tuesday for its second tokenized money market fund, four months after becoming the largest global systemically important bank to put a fund on the Ethereum blockchain. The JPMorgan OnChain Liquidity-Token Money Market Fund, ticker JLTXX, will issue digital tokens on Ethereum representing shares in a portfolio of US Treasuries […]
Coinbase cut 700 jobs on Monday. It reported a 394 million dollar quarterly loss on Thursday. On Friday, a data centre overheated in Virginia and the exchange went dark for seven hours. The company that told its remaining engineers that AI could do weeks of work in days spent the end of the week […]