Tag: Cryptocurrency
How Binance’s Yi He became ‘the most powerful woman in crypto’—and steered the company past its biggest ordeal
When Yi He was a girl in the 1980s, she walked to the well for water and relied on kerosene lamps at times to...
Financial firms from Stripe to Circle are building their own blockchain—here’s why
Building blockchains is the newest fad in fintech. The U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase has one. The online brokerage Robinhood announced its plans to launch...
Exclusive: Top crypto VC Matt Huang to lead Stripe blockchain Tempo as CEO, stay at Paradigm
As Stripe pushes further into crypto with its planned blockchain Tempo, the fintech giant is getting a heavyweight to lead the project. Matt Huang,...
Do Kwon pleads guilty to fraud over $40 billion Terra collapse
Terraform Labs Pte. co-founder Do Kwon pleaded guilty to charges in a US fraud prosecution tied to the $40 billion collapse of the TerraUSD...
Trump Family–Backed World Liberty Financial Sets Up $1.5 Billion Crypto Treasury
The Trump family began to tease the launch of World Liberty Financial last August, ahead of the 2024 US presidential election. Initially, it was...
Exclusive: Fintech giant Stripe building ‘Tempo’ blockchain with crypto VC Paradigm
The fintech giant Stripe is developing a new blockchain, according to a recent job posting on a site for the crypto lobby group Blockchain...
Asia’s quiet tokenization revolution shows how the blockchain becomes ‘real’
For years, the crypto economy was a digital wild west: volatile, speculative, and often untethered from the real world. Now, Asia is leading a...
Ethereum surges past $4,000 as crypto market soars to new all-time high
The crypto markets keep roaring. The total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies notched a new all-time high of almost $4.15 trillion early Monday morning,...
Trump family crypto business announces $1.5 billion treasury company for World Liberty Financial token
The Trump family’s crypto business World Liberty Financial is using a publicly-listed company, ALT5 Sigma Corporation, to raise $1.5 billion for the purchase of...
Trump’s regulatory reset leaves crypto privacy tools like Tornado Cash in the lurch
Sometimes, amid the memecoins and pay-for-access scandals, it can be difficult to remember that the crypto industry was built on the principles of privacy...
