MEGA, the organization behind Ethereum layer-2 network MegaETH, has reduced its workforce by 20% following months of restructuring as it expands into artificial intelligence products. On Friday, MegaETH co-founder Shuyao Kong said the organization had reorganized its teams, resulting in the departures of staff who worked on its blockchain, wallet, ecosystem support and communications. Kong … Read more
Breaking news today, November 14, 2026, has sent shockwaves through the cryptocurrency market. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has officially dropped its long-standing investigation into Ripple Labs and its native cryptocurrency, XRP. This development comes after years of legal battles that have cast a long shadow over the digital asset. The immediate aftermath … Read more
Kraken’s parent company Payward nearly doubled its share of global crypto spot trading to 6.5% in September from 3.3% a year earlier, even as weaker trading activity weighed on its earnings. The market-share gain means Payward captured a larger portion of spot trading relative to competitors, rather than an increase in trading activity across its … Read more
Adam Back’s Bitcoin infrastructure company Blockstream has launched a new institutional digital asset custody solution developed with French technology group Thales, as the cryptographer pushes for simpler, offline security systems to protect Bitcoin against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. The solution, announced Friday, combines Thales’ hardware security modules (HSMs) with Blockstream’s Secure Multi-Party Computation (Secure-MPC) technology, allowing … Read more
OpenAI on Friday introduced a new feature allowing AI agents to make purchases on behalf of users directly within ChatGPT through existing payment networks, in collaboration with American Express, Mastercard and Visa. The wallet lets users authorize transactions using biometric verification, such as facial recognition or fingerprints. Payment networks generate tokenized card credentials for each … Read more
Metaplanet swung to a $170 million net loss in the first nine months of 2026, hit by a decline in the value of its Bitcoin holdings and a loss on the sale of 10,000 coins to demonstrate its ability to raise cash. The Japanese company, the world’s second-largest publicly traded corporate Bitcoin (BTC) holder, posted … Read more
Bitcoin (BTC) hovered around $68,700 following Friday’s Wall Street open, rebounding from an earlier dip to roughly $67,500. Key points: Bitcoin failed to reclaim the $70,000 mark after hitting about $67,500 on Friday, its lowest level since mid-August. The US Producer Price Index (PPI) rose 6.5% year over year in October, 0.1 percentage points below … Read more
Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX, said he was “flattered” by Coinbase’s support for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in a US legal dispute over stock perpetual futures. “When we launched the perpetual swap at BitMEX in 2016, Washington’s reaction was less than warm,” Hayes told Cointelegraph. “Ten years later, Coinbase is in federal court … Read more
Indian cryptocurrency exchange Unocoin has kept deposits and withdrawals suspended as it investigates whether suspicious transfers from wallets linked to custodian BitGo were made using a recovery feature. On Friday, the exchange said that BitGo had frozen the exchange’s enterprise account on Nov. 6 at Unocoin’s request and that the freeze worked as intended. The … Read more
Bitcoin fell below $70,000 on Friday, extending its recent decline as investor sentiment deteriorated amid institutional outflows, tightening liquidity and broader macroeconomic pressures. Bitcoin (BTC) is trading at $68,607.23 at the time of writing, down 9.2% in the last week, according to CoinGecko. The decline coincided with a sharp decline in market sentiment. The Crypto … Read more