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The European Union’s Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA) transition period is entering its final stretch, forcing smaller crypto firms across the EU to either secure authorization quickly or prepare to shut down regulated services. The transitional period ends across the bloc on July 1, after which any crypto asset service provider operating without a MiCA license must stop serving EU clients. Early movers like United Kingdom-based exchange CoinJar, which said it secured MiCA authorization in Ireland in 2025, call the regime a necessary maturation that rewards compliance-first players, but founders in markets like Poland warn thousands of virtual asset…

As part of efforts to expand user/investor experience in its crypto trading platform, Fedi, a self-custodial Bitcoin wallet, today entered into a strategic collaboration with Exolix, a rapid, non-custodial cryptocurrency exchange. With this partnership, Fedi integrated its Bitcoin wallet into Exolix’s crypto exchange to enable its users to connect with more traders and allow them to execute more cross-chain trades within their Bitcoin wallets. Fedi is a non-custodial Bitcoin wallet that allows users to control their money and collaborate with various Web3 communities while protecting user privacy and autonomy. Since its launch in 2022 and its founding by Nigerian Bitcoin…

Coinbase has rebuilt its anti‑fraud stack by tightly integrating machine learning models with a high‑speed rules engine, slashing response times to new scam patterns from days to hours just as TRM Labs warns crypto fraud is now a tens‑of‑billions‑per‑year, AI‑supercharged industry. Coinbase has upgraded its anti-fraud stack by tightly integrating machine learning models with a rules engine, cutting its response time to new fraud patterns from several days to just a few hours as AI-enabled scams surge across the crypto sector. The company describes a dual-track strategy where “models [are] responsible for long-term defense, rules [are] responsible for rapid response,”…

As part of efforts to bring deep cross-chain DeFi liquidity to RWA investors, Asseto Finance, a real-world asset platform that bridges tradFi with DeFi, today announced a strategic partnership with Pharos Network, an EVM-compatible Layer-1 built for real-world asset and cross-chain liquidity. This integration enabled Asseto to leverage Pharos’ EVM-compatible Layer-1 blockchain to decrease friction for RWA users who want to move real-world assets across various chains, supported by Pharos’s cross-chain settlement layer. Asseto Finance is a blockchain platform that has expertise in transforming traditional financial assets (such as commodities, real estate, and many others) into tradeable digital assets in…

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes has a message for an industry celebrating the CLARITY Act’s progress through Washington: veto it. Asked in his Coinpedia interview for a realistic timeline on the bill passing and whether it is genuinely good for crypto, Hayes gave a one-sentence answer that puts him sharply at odds with the rest of the industry. “The CLARITY Act should be vetoed. We don’t need no regulation.” The response lands at a moment when crypto’s most prominent companies, executives and lobby groups are pushing hard in the opposite direction, treating the bill as the most important piece of legislation…

Gold has taken over retail futures trading on crypto exchanges in 2026, and fresh quarterly data from MEXC shows the flow has only become more concentrated. The Seychelles-based exchange said its tokenized gold product XAUT alone accounted for 71% of combined volume among its top 10 TradFi Futures in the first quarter, with silver adding another 22%. Singapore Summit: Meet the largest APAC brokers you know (and those you still don’t!) Together, the two instruments absorbed 93% of top 10 activity between January and March, according to the company’s Q1 TradFi report published today (Wednesday). MEXC said its gold futures…

Ronin, the gaming-focused blockchain built by Sky Mavis to power titles like Axie Infinity, is migrating to Ethereum on May 12, the team said this week. The move will end a four-year run as an independent sidechain and bring major upgrades to its ecosystem. The migration will cut RON inflation from over 20% to under 1% and expand treasury inflows. Ronin also plans to roll out Proof of Distribution, a system that automatically rewards builders based on their contributions. Proof of Distribution will reward contributors based on a measurable impact, including gas spend, user growth, and trading activity. Meanwhile, treasury…

Flamingo Finance has published an open letter alleging that Neo Global Development and the Neo Foundation failed to deliver promised assets and operational support during the platform’s most challenging stretches to date. The Flamingo maintainers argue that Neo’s flagship DeFi dApp has been left structurally dependent on two entities that have refused to act on calls for help. The article catalogs grievances the team says it raised internally through late 2025 before escalating the dispute publicly. The dependency Flamingo describes Flamingo states that it does not hold the keys to its own smart contracts, and that contract-upgrade authority rests with…

The US Department of Justice has filed fraud charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center, alleging the civil rights organization made secret payments to extremist informants without proper disclosure. The US Department of Justice announced a federal indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center on April 21, with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche alleging the group had been paying informants embedded inside white supremacist and other extremist organizations while concealing those payments from donors. The indictment, returned by a grand jury in Alabama, includes six counts of wire fraud, four counts of making false statements to a federally insured bank,…

An unregistered overseas crypto exchange, KCEX, continues to operate in South Korea despite a government ban, leveraging a loophole through the iOS App Store. This situation reveals significant gaps in the country’s regulatory framework for virtual asset service providers. As of April 22, 2025, the exchange remains accessible to South Korean users, undermining efforts to enforce financial oversight. KCEX Unregistered Exchange: Background and Timeline South Korean financial authorities flagged KCEX for unregistered business activities in August 2024. The exchange, based overseas, never obtained the necessary license from the Financial Services Commission (FSC). Despite this, it continues to attract users through…