Maczo is highlighting the growing role of digital asset payments in online gaming as more users look for faster, clearer, and more flexible ways to access entertainment platforms. The shift comes as crypto payments continue to move beyond trading and into consumer-facing products where speed, transparency, and usability matter as much as the underlying blockchain
Zapper, one of decentralized finance’s earliest and most recognizable portfolio dashboards, is shutting down for good. Co-founder and CEO Seb Audet announced on X that the platform will wind down completely on August 3, closing its website, mobile apps, and API services after nearly seven years in the market. An Orderly Exit After Years of
Paradigm, one of crypto’s most influential venture capital firms, announced on July 8 that it has closed a $1.2 billion fourth fund. The vehicle marks a deliberate widening of the firm’s investment mandate beyond digital assets into artificial intelligence, robotics, and other frontier technologies, while keeping crypto at the core of its strategy. A Broader
Coinbase has received a UK MiFID investment services license, paving the way for the company to expand its product suite beyond crypto into equities and derivatives. The announcement was made by Coinbase on July 7, after CB Payments, Ltd was recorded as “Authorised” by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) starting July 6, 2026. This move
Vanguard has opened its first-ever search for a Head of Digital Assets, a senior hire that would put a single executive in charge of the roughly $12 trillion asset manager’s strategy for cryptocurrencies and blockchain-based finance. The move signals a gradual but notable shift in Vanguard’s stance on digital assets, following its recent decision to
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has placed cryptocurrency regulation among its top priorities for 2026, releasing a regulatory agenda that lays out plans to rewrite key rules governing exchanges, broker-dealers, and digital asset custody. Agenda Signals Broad Shift in Crypto Oversight The SEC released its 2026 Regulatory Agenda on Tuesday, which spans proposed changes
More than 16 months after President Donald Trump signed the executive order establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, the initiative remains stalled, with two federal departments locked in an unresolved dispute over which one has the legal authority to manage it. A Turf War Over $20 Billion in Bitcoin The Trump administration’s plan to create a
A governance exploit has cost the BonkDAO treasury an estimated $20 million, after an attacker spent roughly $4.4 million acquiring enough BONK tokens to push through a malicious proposal that automatically transferred the funds to a wallet under their control. The incident, which unfolded over the course of a week and culminated early Monday, has
Aave, the largest decentralized lending protocol by total value locked, has notched two significant milestones within the same week. The protocol’s V4 deployment on Ethereum surpassed $250 million in deposits, while its newly launched lending market on the Monad blockchain crossed $100 million in deposits just 48 hours after going live on July 2. The
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has outlined an updated long-term roadmap for the network, describing the multi-year “Lean Ethereum” initiative as the protocol’s biggest overhaul since the 2022 Merge. The update follows a gathering of Ethereum researchers in Berlin in late June and comes alongside a revised draft roadmap, known internally as the “strawmap,” published at