Infrastructure
DeFi

Congress is weighing whether crypto tax relief should stop at stablecoins

A June 9 Ways and Means hearing pushes crypto policy into the tax code, where small payments, stablecoin use, network…
Jun 8, 2026
DeFi

DeFi’s old hack vectors are fading – But the new risk can hit six chains at once

Decentralized finance has gotten a lot safer over the past six years, and a new review of protocol losses from…
Jun 7, 2026
Infrastructure

Wall Street Is Coming for Hyperliquid's Perps Crown, Arthur Hayes Says

Arthur Hayes warned that Hyperliquid’s core value driver—using trading fees to burn tokens—exposes the protocol to market share losses. Read…
Jun 7, 2026
Infrastructure

America’s largest banks are building a new digital currency network to stop a massive deposit drain

America’s biggest banks are launching tokenized deposits to compete with stablecoins, opening a new front in the race to become…
Jun 6, 2026
Infrastructure

Chainlink CCIP Draws $1.1 Billion in Value in One Week as Virtuals Join Migration Wave

Chainlink’s CCIP drew over $1.1 billion in token value this week as Virtuals Protocol, Pleasing Market, and Zest Protocol joined…
Jun 5, 2026
Infrastructure

Cardano founder floats splitting his own blockchain after warning more apps will die

Charles Hoskinson raised the possibility of splitting Cardano after the collapse of one of its best-known ecosystem tools exposed a…
Jun 5, 2026
AI

AI exposed a massive flaw in top crypto network and experts warn banks could be next

After an AI model helped uncover a four-year-old flaw in Zcash, security researchers warn that similar bugs may be hiding…
Jun 5, 2026
Infrastructure

Visa tests private stablecoin settlement with Brale, Canton

Visa is testing private stablecoin settlement on Canton with Brale, exploring whether institutions can use blockchain without exposing sensitive transaction…
Jun 5, 2026
AI

AI-assisted Zcash flaw exposes the supply integrity gap an emergency fork could not fully close

The exploit that nearly broke Zcash originated inside the zero-knowledge proof circuit that powers Orchard, Zcash’s newest shielded pool, and…
Jun 5, 2026
Infrastructure

Morning Minute: Massive ZCash Exploit Found by Claude, Extent Unknown

The ZCash team hired a hacker to find an exploit in the ZCash protocol, and he exposed a glitch that…
Jun 5, 2026