Pudgy Penguins will halt development of Pudgy Party and focus on Pudgy World, as another Web3 gaming project shuts down after failing to find a sustainable business model.

Standard Chartered forecasts assets locked in decentralized finance will reach $2.7 trillion by 2030, driven by tokenization and crypto-native growth.

FIFA and the FBI warned of ticket scams as TRM Labs identified World Cup-themed crypto fraud operations tied to multiple wallet addresses.

LG is building a blockchain focused on buying and selling ads, joining a wave of companies launching their own blockchains in recent years.

Executives from Franklin Templeton and BNP Paribas say tokenized assets and stablecoins could improve capital efficiency across Europe as Wall Street expands tokenization efforts.

TRM Labs said onchain gambling reached $51 billion in 2025, with repeat users and stablecoin flows helping the sector remain resilient during a broader crypto market pullback.

Trad.Fi plans to bring up to $650 million in equipment-finance credit onchain, targeting a trillion-dollar US market still dominated by paperwork.

StarkWare and Sui roll out confidential transfer systems as Zama boosts compliance efforts and Zcash’s Orchard bug highlights risks in shielded privacy models.

Humanity Protocol's Terence Kwok said some multisig keys may have been accidentally backed up to a compromised device during setup.

SBI will give out vouchers that can be redeemed for Bitcoin, Ether or XRP through SBI VC Trade, linking bank savings with the group’s crypto exchange arm.

CoinGecko and NFT Price Floor data show NFT market cap has cooled since April, while CryptoPunks and BAYC remain top collections by value.

Ironwood would close the old Orchard pool to new activity and route funds through a turnstile before they enter a new shielded pool.

Travala’s new protocol lets AI agents search and book hotels with USDC on Base, but travelers still approve the final payment.

Zcash developers are weighing a new shielded pool and turnstile accounting after the Orchard bug raised supply verification questions.

Zcash Open Development Lab said the network briefly became unstable as miners upgraded, while the Zcash Foundation said there was no evidence of an exploit.

Russian ruble-backed stablecoin A7A5 processed over $110 billion in transactions despite Western sanctions, according to CertiK.

The payments giant said USDC, PYUSD, RLUSD and other stablecoins will support new settlement options across multiple blockchains.

Despite the planned wind-down, TapTools says it is open to being acquired or taking on external resources to continue maintaining the platform.

MoneyGram launched MGUSD, a dollar stablecoin on Stellar, as the remittance company deepens its push into blockchain-based global payments.

The Sui Network's first two outages were caused by bugs introduced in its 1.72 update, while an interim fix deployed to restore the blockchain triggered the third.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance has proposed letting SMEs use digital assets, virtual assets and intellectual property as loan collateral.

The outage was caused by the same network update software bug that disrupted the protocol on Thursday, which resulted in nearly six hours of downtime.

ICE’s CEO said regulators need to create a “level playing field” for launching 24/7 onchain perps contracts, which are already trading on exchanges such as Hyperliquid.

The Sui mainnet has resumed after a bug in a network update took it offline for 5 hours and 55 minutes.

The Bank for International Settlements' collaboration with seven central banks and more than 40 institutions concludes a two-year project with a prototype settling wholesale payments in seconds.

The Justice Department and the CFTC allege that Google software engineer Michele Spagnuolo profited $1.2 million on Polymarket after accessing non-public information at work.

Payment volume on crypto-linked credit and debit cards has been steadily increasing since 2024, reaching about $7.8 billion in cumulative transactions this month.

Binance CEO Richard Teng denied a new WSJ report alleging $850 million in Iran-linked transactions flowed through the exchange to the IRGC.

Repeated bridge exploits and shrinking yields are making institutions question whether DeFi’s risks still justify the returns, says Symbiotic’s Putiatin.

Stablecoin rules may legitimize crypto dollars enough to compete with banks for payments, savings and customer relationships.