Crypto law firm loses appeal to force SEC’s hand on Ether classification

Tokenized sport collectibles projects have raised almost $1 billion in funding in the space of a week. On Sept. 22 Dapper Labs — the firm behind the Flow blockchain and the widely popular tokenized basketball collectibles, NBA TopShot — announced a further $250 million in a funding round led by tech-focused hedge fund Coatue. As…

Crypto crime has entered a professionalized era dominated by AI-driven scams, stablecoin laundering and efficient cyber syndicates, the 2025 “Crypto Crime Report” by Chainalysis reveals, with the past year witnessing a staggering $51 billion in illicit transaction volume — shattering previous records and assumptions. Initial estimates suggested a decline in crypto crime for 2024. Deeper

“It’s good at answering Bitcoin and economics-related questions, at least better than GPT-4”, Aleksandar Svetski tells Cointelegraph at a bustling Bitcoin Amsterdam.The entrepreneur, author and founder of Spirit of Satoshi, a novel AI large language model (LLM), begins to unpack the arduous journey his small startup has undertaken to create its Bitcoin-centric AI chatbot.The model is

Ethereum co-founder believes that CBDCs are good for macroeconomics, but there are also certain challenges. 2462 Total views 4 Total shares Central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, will be fairly easy to convert into cryptocurrencies in the future, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin believes.Speaking at the Singapore Fintech Festival 2020 on Dec. 9, Buterin said that…

Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This WeekBinance reveals “Venus” — its own project to rival Facebook’s LibraWith Facebook…

The United States House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services has scheduled a hearing with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton and four other SEC commissioners to discuss, among other topics, crypto.In a memorandum from Sept. 19, the Committee on Financial Services stated that it will hold a hearing on Sept. 24 entitled “Oversight…

Ethereum’s security team is planning a four-week hackathon to test the blockchain’s security and wants to do one for every future hard fork.