Bergen County, New Jersey is turning to the Avalanche AVAX network to put its entire property record system on blockchain, claiming to be the largest property deed tokenization project in the U.S. Under a five-year agreement with land record blockchain firm Balcony, the well-to-do county across the Hudson River...

At the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Senator Cynthia Lummis, a staunch advocate for BTC and cryptocurrencies, announced that President Donald Trump supports the upcoming Bitcoin Act, which aims to facilitate the purchase of 1 million BTC and is expected to be introduced to Congress next...

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There has been a notable surge in USD1-paired meme coins on the BNB chain, specifically from the BUILDon meme project. Since May 21st, these tokens have rapidly risen to dominate over 50% of total meme coin trading volume on BNB, and have soared to nearly 90% in subsequent days,...

Trading platform eToro (ETOR) has expanded its crypto offerings in the U.S., adding 12 new digital assets including Dogecoin DOGE, Cardano ADA and XRP XRP, the company said Wednesday. The additions bring the total number of cryptocurrencies available to U.S. users to 15. The new tokens also include Aave...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Cork Protocol has suffered a smart contract exploit, with hackers reportedly stealing $12 million worth of wrapped staked ether (wstETH). Blockchain security monitor Cyvers noticed the exploit, stating that the malicious contract was deployed by a wallet likely funded by a service provider. It added...

TON’s remarkable price action featured extraordinary trading volume – approximately 10x the period’s average during peak hours, with strong support forming at $2.97-$2.98 and new resistance established at $3.27. The most dramatic movement occurred in a two-minute window when TON skyrocketed from $3.18 to $3.29, accompanied by volume exceeding...

The Katana Foundation, a nonprofit focused on decentralized finance (DeFi) development, is launching its private mainnet, aiming to unlock greater crypto asset productivity via deeper liquidity and higher yields for users. The Katana Foundation launched a DeFi-optimized, private blockchain, Katana, on May 28, incubated by GSR Markets and Polygon...

Monero’s XMR has been going up only since early April, and is showing no signs of slowing down. If XMR goes any higher, it could go parabolic, breaking out of a price pattern that’s been forming for a decade. This begs the question of what exactly has been going...

Vietnamese authorities have arrested key figures behind a nationwide cryptocurrency scam that defrauded tens of thousands of investors out of nearly 10 trillion VND (approximately $400 million).  The fraud ring operated under the guise of a fake virtual currency exchange…...