The FDIC has moved forward with a new GENIUS Act framework outlining how U.S. banks can issue and manage stablecoins, signaling expanded federal oversight of dollar-backed digital assets.

Bitcoin price jumped about 5% late Tuesday to $72,753 after President Donald Trump signaled a pause in escalation with Iran.

Risk assets rose late Tuesday as oil collapsed after Trump and Iran confirmed the two-week ceasefire.

In his new memoir, Changpeng Zhao reveals he signed the FTX letter of intent as a formality and calls Caroline Ellison's $22 floor price offer a "fatal mistake."

Short sellers betting on continued war escalation lost $427 million in 24 hours as bitcoin vaulted past $72,000 on the ceasefire announcement.

Breakout backed by institutional flows and whale buying, though broader downtrend and weak ETF demand cap conviction.

One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star. Another replicates every major "quantum factoring breakthrough" using a 1981 home computer and a dog.

Iran plans to charge ships Bitcoin tolls to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, tying the cryptocurrency to a key global energy chokepoint.

Morgan Stanley officially launched the first U.S. bank-issued spot bitcoin ETF, undercutting rivals on fees and leveraging its massive advisor network to challenge BlackRock’s dominance.

Digital assets spiked as a surprise geopolitical de-escalation triggered $600 million in liquidations, sending Bitcoin toward $73,000 and boosting altcoin demand.

The new rules apply uniform criteria for withdrawal exceptions based on account history and transaction patterns.

Claude Mythos Preview identified thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system and browser, including in cryptography libraries that DeFi infrastructure depends on.

The Swiss franc-pegged stablecoin project aims to connect tokenized money with existing systems while gathering data for a potential full rollout

Bitcoin clears a key technical hurdle and eyes $76,000 as a temporary ceasefire with Iran and Morgan Stanley’s landmark ETF debut restore market confidence.

A ton of BTC was recently traded below $70,000 in a sign of strong dip demand.

While BlackRock’s spot bitcoin ETF currently reigns as the liquidity king of crypto, Morgan Stanley’s MSBT will leverage a market-low 0.14% fee and $7 trillion wealth management engine to possibly challenge that dominance.

Advances in post-quantum cryptography are underway even as current machines remain far from practical threat levels

NEAR Protocol (NEAR) joined Internet Computer (ICP) as a top performer, climbing 8.9% from Tuesday.

Iran plans to collect cryptocurrency and other digital payments as transit fees from fully loaded oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz, an FT report said.

Digital asset inflows totaled $11 billion in Q1, as institutional demand and ETF outflows left corporate buyers and venture capital as the primary sources of funding.

The broker said advances in quantum computing are accelerating the timeline for crypto risk, but argued Bitcoin faces a multi-year upgrade cycle, not an existential crisis.