Crypto News

Blast, a layer-2 blockchain that will go live in March, has garnered more than $225 million in staked assets since Monday, but many crypto investors remain skeptical.

The Bank of Korea sees a CBDC as a potential answer to problems with existing government-issued grant systems, such as during the COVID-19 pandemic or childcare vouchers.

The bank will start its crypto services to customers in Vienna, in partnership with Bitpanda.

It appears bitcoin holders are not planning on offloading inventory at these price levels or any time soon, one observer said.

Decentralized Exchange had over $80 million in total value locked before the incident.

After a blockchain sleuth reported that the Bitcoin mining pool may have censored a transaction from an address blacklisted by U.S. authorities, critics responded, and so did the project's co-founder.

The crypto exchange Binance's expensive deal with U.S. prosecutors this week bears harsh consequences, but could mean a positive outlook for the company in the long term.

The world's largest crypto exchange agreed to settle U.S. criminal charges and its founder and CEO pled guilty and agreed to step down from the company.

In this week's edition of The Protocol newsletter, we share a few trends stand out to close 2023: the proliferation of Ethereum layer-2 networks, the ascendancy of zero-knowledge cryptography and the appearance of tokens, smart contracts…