US Stablecoin Yield Ban May See Others Step Up: Ledger Exec

A block on stablecoin yield payments in the US will likely prompt other countries to step up and offer the option, according to Takatoshi Shibayama, Asia-Pacific lead at crypto wallet company Ledger.  Shibayama told Cointelegraph that if a wider ban on stablecoin yields is enacted in the US, it “definitely opens up a conversation” between…

Bitcoin Shows Strength at $67K Amid Oil Surge and Inflation Fears

Bitcoin (BTC) traded above $67,000 on Monday after posting its first bullish weekly close in seven weeks. Meanwhile, oil prices surged as the Middle East conflict prompted fears of a major supply shortage. Key takeaways: Bitcoin holds firm above $67,000 as oil prices surge to the highest level since 2022. Analysts warn that the oil…

Bitcoin Beats US Stocks as Strategy’s STRC Hints at a $776M BTC Purchase

Bitcoin (BTC) is on track for its strongest weekly gain since September 2025, defying a broader risk-off backdrop driven by the escalating US–Israel tensions with Iran. Key takeaways: Strategy raised $776 million this week, which could lead to the purchase of over 11,000 BTC. US Bitcoin ETFs had $767 million in inflows in the same…

Aave to Roll Out Aave Shield After $50M User Loss Incident

Decentralized finance protocol Aave said it is introducing a new feature to block swaps with a price impact above 25% after a user lost $50 million in a trade while interacting with Aave’s interface last week.  “We are soon deploying a new feature, Aave Shield, which provides more protections for users who use the swap…

The SEC and CFTC join hands: State of Crypto

Though we’re still waiting on a lot of the formal rulemaking and proposed rulemaking from the federal securities and commodities regulators, last week’s memo is another sign that the SEC and CFTC are at least serious about signalling these efforts are coming. You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the intersection of…

CLARITY Bill Takes the Decentralization out of Crypto — Crypto Exec

The regulatory provisions outlined in the US Digital Asset Market Structure Clarity Act, otherwise known as the CLARITY Act, threaten to give large financial institutions control over crypto, according to Dr. Friederike Ernst, co-founder of the Gnosis blockchain protocol. Regulations in the CLARITY crypto market structure bill assume that activity must pass through centralized intermediaries,…

Ethereum ‘Ultrasound Money’ Pivot Did Not Help ETH Price Beat Bitcoin

Ether (ETH) has dropped roughly 65% against Bitcoin (BTC) since Ethereum’s 2022 shift to Proof-of-Stake (PoS), casting doubt on the network’s “ultrasound money” thesis. Key takeaways: ETH/BTC three-day performance chart. Source: TradingView Ether’s ultrasound money narrative disappoints The idea behind “ultrasound money” was that Ether would become even scarcer than Bitcoin. Supporters argued that Ethereum’s…

Bitcoin Turns Up the Heat on Lost Support for Its Latest Weekly Close

Bitcoin edged toward an important weekly close above $70,000 that would include a reclaim of an important 200-week trend line. Bitcoin (BTC) inched higher on Sunday as bulls sought to seal a weekly close above $70,000. Key points: Bitcoin eyes its highest daily close in over a week with a fresh weekend push above $70,000….

Venus Protocol Hit by Code Exploit, Causing Over $3.7 Million In Losses

Venus Protocol, a decentralized lending and borrowing platform, said on Sunday it had detected suspicious trading activity in the liquidity pool for the Thena (THE) token, the native cryptocurrency of the Thena decentralized finance platform. The unusual trading activity only affected pools for the Cake (CAKE) token, the native cryptocurrency of the PancakeSwap decentralized exchange,…

Buterin Says Its Time To Revisit Idea Simplifying Ethereum Node Setup

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted a proposal, or a pull request, on Saturday that would merge the backend programs used by nodes to interact with Ethereum’s Beacon Chain, which handles consensus and staking, and the protocol’s execution layer into one unified code structure to simplify node setup. Ethereum node runners, also called validators, currently have…