Background

Illegal crypto transactions surged 162 percent in 2025. Bybit hack, North Korea’s Lazarus Group, and Russian sanctions evasion in focus.

Vitalik Buterin announces Ethereum realignment for 2026. Focus on decentralization, privacy, and simpler node operation after centralization.

Ralph and Gas Town: AI developers receive community funding through Solana memecoins instead of venture capital.

US banks and crypto: despite the ETF boom, custody and trading remain rare and are mostly available only to wealthy clients.

The entire development team at Electric Coin Company resigns. A governance conflict shakes Zcash, while Monero benefits.

Crypto Taxes Switzerland 2025: FTA rate list with Bitcoin at 69,571 CHF, wealth tax and practical tips for the 2025 tax return.

Bitcoin celebrates 17 years since the Genesis Block. From 0 to $1.8 trillion market cap: The most important milestones of the cryptocurrency.

Institutional investors have integrated digital assets into their portfolios. The central question for 2026 is how sustainable this trend will be.

The year 2025 marked a turning point in quantum computing development: when will these chips become a real threat to Bitcoin?

Bitcoin is widely regarded by many users as an anonymous cryptocurrency – a common misconception: Bitcoin is pseudonymous, not anonymous.

The largest DeFi lending platform is facing a pivotal decision: the Aave DAO and Aave Labs are publicly disputing brand rights.

According to an investigation by the Financial Times, Binance continued to allow suspicious transactions worth hundreds of millions of dollars even after its 2023 guilty plea.

The Bitcoin mining industry is facing a fundamental transformation, as many of the leading companies are pivoting toward AI infrastructure.

Tether is considering the tokenization of its own equity following the completion of a funding round of up to USD 20 billion.

Crypto outlook 2026: institutional demand, new technologies and clearer regulation are set to drive adoption.

The investors in Ripple’s latest financing round secured protective mechanisms that shield them against the volatility of XRP.