Law and Ledger is a news segment focusing on crypto legal news, brought to you by Kelman Law – A law firm focused on digital asset commerce. The opinion editorial below was written by Michael Handelsman for Kelman.Law. A startup builds a wallet that lets customers sign transactions on their own devices. The company never […]
A $3 tag-sale find from upstate New York turned into a $2.2 million payday when a roughly 1,000-year-old Northern Song dynasty Ding ware bowl sold at Sotheby’s in New York on March 19, 2013. The five-inch bowl had sat on display in the family’s living room for about five to six years before it was […]
This week’s stories spanned exchange security, prediction markets, bitcoin treasury risk, earnings and tokenization. Binance investigated a potential multibillion-dollar hack, while Kalshi raised another $1 billion at a $40 billion valuation. Datavault AI said it could not access 817.6 BTC, Coinbase returned to profit with $719 million in Q3 net income, and DTCC launched a […]
Not all vintage cast iron is created equal: at the February 2025 Air Works Consignment Auction, a Griswold No. 13 (14-inch) skillet sold for $2,600 to $3,300, squarely in the garage-sale jackpot range. The biggest tell is the branding, with Griswold’s earliest ERIE-era marks and the ultra-rare Erie Spider logo standing out from the far […]
Crypto is confronting a dangerous collision between increasingly valuable digital assets and artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can automate phishing, vulnerability research, and credential theft at machine speed. Recent multibillion-dollar breaches are not all AI-driven, but security researchers say attackers are already using autonomous tools to compress operations that once required teams of hackers. AI […]
Wall Street analysts are telling clients to buy the dip after the $6.3 billion Binance hack, and Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan expects bitcoin’s price to recover fairly soon. Hougan Calls the Hack a Mere ‘Blip’ Hougan, chief investment officer at crypto asset manager Bitwise, played down the damage, stating: This hack has not changed anything […]
Binance has started buying back the tokens lost in its $6.3 billion hack, and onchain data shows wallets associated with Ethena sent 128.63 million ENA worth about $24 million to the exchange. Ethena Tokens Flow Into Binance Blockchain trackers flagged the transfers early on Oct. 31, writing: Binance is buying back the stolen assets through […]
Claims that the $6.3 billion Binance hack was an inside job are spreading across X as the exchange holds back its proof-of-reserves results until Monday, Nov. 2. Skeptics Question the Timing of Monday’s Audit The doubts center on the order of events, as in its Oct. 30 update, Binance said it had covered about 80% […]
Lin Han, founder and CEO of Gate, has called for the formation of a cryptocurrency security alliance to standardize procedures to prevent and eventually deal with the aftermath of security incidents similar to the $6.3 billion hack that Binance faced on Thursday. Gate CEO Calls for Global Security Alliance to Secure The Crypto Industry Following […]
The company behind the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is taking a piece of Hyperliquid’s $650 billion trading phenomenon into America’s regulated markets. ICE’s new partnership with Trade[XYZ] aims to bring around-the-clock perpetual futures to U.S. traders for the first time. ICE and Trade[XYZ] Plan Regulated Hyperliquid Market On Thursday, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent […]
Polygon Labs has expanded its Polygon Open Money Stack to support Solana, allowing enterprises to manage bank funding and payouts via a single technical integration and commercial relationship. Streamlining Cross-Border Money Movement Polygon Labs announced on Oct. 29 the expansion of its Polygon Open Money Stack to Solana, giving businesses a single integration to […]
Google has introduced a multi-party computation platform designed to help banks and financial institutions secure cryptocurrencies and tokenized assets without storing a complete private key in one place. Google MPC Splits Crypto Keys to Reduce Single-Point Failure Google is moving deeper into crypto infrastructure, this time by tackling one of institutional investors’ biggest concerns: who […]
The most recent “not your keys, not your coins” incident involving a small Nasdaq-listed company that lost access to its bitcoin and saw its stock crash 50% serves as a reminder of the risks facing bitcoin treasury investors. On Oct. 26, tech company Datavault AI disclosed that it had been unable to withdraw bitcoin from […]
Google searches for “bitcoin” have dropped to a five-year low, and some traders note that the last two times interest sank this far, the asset’s price found a steady bottom. Retail Has Left the Building Google Trends does not measure raw search volume but rather scores interest on a relative scale from 0 to 100, […]
Bithumb, South Korea’s second-largest crypto exchange, has confirmed that an outside party broke into its internal mobile groupware system and leaked personal data, while two other Korean financial firms reported intrusions as well. What Bithumb Disclosed According to Yonhap News Agency, Bithumb confirmed that an unauthorized external party accessed its internal mobile groupware system, resulting […]
Investor Mike Alfred says bitcoin will hit $100,000 by Thanksgiving, after BTC reclaimed $81,000 with roughly $2.7 billion in leveraged shorts stacked just above at $84,000. The Confidence Is There Mike Alfred, a longtime investor and bitcoin commentator, did not mince his words, stating unequivocally: Ok, that’s it. I’ve seen enough to call it. $100,000 […]
ZODL founder Josh Swihart has opposed a proposal by Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe to disable only the Zcash Community Grants funding stream, calling the move a “half measure” that creates market uncertainty. Zcash Founder Proposes Redirecting ZCG Allocation Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL) founder Josh Swihart has pushed back against fellow Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe’s […]
“I think we will have a lot less retail, and it’ll be more of the institution and more of the business meeting environment,” FactBlock CEO Andrew Park told Bitcoin.com News ahead of KBW2026. By the time the conference closed in Seoul on Oct. 1, there was evidence supporting that prediction. Of the 290 speakers at […]
Strategy shareholders decide on Wednesday whether STRC becomes what the company calls the first security to pay dividends every calendar day, and staying home counts as a vote against. What’s on the Ballot The special meeting starts at 10:00 a.m. ET on Oct. 28, with two key agenda points being listed: Proposal 1 amends the […]
Attackers hijacked Foundation’s email infrastructure and sent fake hardware-wallet recall notices containing customers’ real names, addresses and purchase details. The company says it expelled the intruders within ten minutes of user reports, but the personal information raises troubling questions. Compromised API Keys Turned Official Emails Into Phishing Bait Boston-based hardware-wallet manufacturer Foundation disclosed the incident […]