Samsung SDS to Build South Korea’s Tokenized Securities Platform
Samsung SDS has secured a contract with the Korea Securities Depository to develop and operate a blockchain-based tokenized securities system, marking a shift from pilot…
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UAE Free Zone Launches On-Chain Business Identity System
Innovation City, the UAE free zone in Ras Al Khaimah, launched a blockchain-based digital business identity system, giving every registered company a cryptographically…
NFT Trading Slumps as Blue-Chip Collections Absorb Liquidity
Global NFT trading weakened sharply by late April 2026, even as marquee collections such as Pudgy Penguins and Bored Ape Yacht Club staged powerful rallies.
Mastercard’s Entry Into the BSSC Gives Blockchain Security a More Institutional Shape
Mastercard has joined the Blockchain Security Standards Council as a charter-level member, bringing one of the world’s largest payments networks into a consortium that…
Kelp DAO Exploit Exposes the Hidden Fragility of Cross-Chain DeFi
Kelp DAO’s rsETH restaking system became the center of the largest DeFi exploit reported in 2026 after an attacker manipulated a cross-chain component and minted roughly…
Foundation’s Shutdown Shows How Thin NFT Liquidity Can Break a Marketplace
Foundation’s closure marks more than the end of a well-known Ethereum-based art marketplace.
Phishing accounted for most of $464.5M in Q1 Web3 losses, Hacken says
Web3 projects lost $464.5 million to hacks and scams in the first quarter of 2026, and the damage profile says as much about changing attacker behavior as it does about…
FBI and Indonesian police dismantle W3LL phishing network tied to $20 million in attempted fraud
A joint U.S.-Indonesian operation has dismantled one of the more industrialized phishing services in recent years, cutting off a platform that enabled cybercriminals to…
Crypto exchanges press into TradFi commodities as pricing gaps drive explosive Q1 volumes
Crypto exchanges moved far deeper into tokenized commodities and equities in the first quarter of 2026, with weekly TradFi perpetual swap volume jumping to about $30.7…
Yuga Labs settles two-year trademark fight over alleged copycat BAYC NFTs
Yuga Labs has reached a settlement with Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen over the RR/BAYC collection, closing a two-year legal fight that became one of the most important…
South Korea’s draft Digital Assets Act folded stablecoins and tokenized RWAs into existing finance laws
South Korea’s Democratic Party used its February 23, 2026 unified draft of the Digital Assets Basic Act to do something more consequential than propose another crypto…
Attorney says Drift’s April exploit may amount to civil negligence
Drift Protocol’s $270 million to $285 million exploit on April 1, 2026 is now being viewed through a legal lens that could prove as consequential as the technical…
Circle lays out quantum-resistant roadmap for Arc L1 to protect $32 billion in USDC
Circle has laid out a quantum-resistance roadmap for Arc, its Layer-1 network built for stablecoin finance, setting a phased plan to protect wallets, transactions…