South Africa’s central bank has announced that it will be retreat from the retail CBDC race-at least for now. In a paper released on Thursday, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) said that there is currently no immediate need for a central bank digital currency, despite it being technically feasible.

ALT5 Sigma, a crypto treasury company tied to World Liberty Financial (WLFI) — a token project linked to the Trump family — has announced the firing of two of its top executives amid growing scrutiny surrounding both the firm and its political associations.

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon is fighting a legal battle on two fronts as he is begging for U.S. prosecutors to limit his prison term to five years as prosecutors in South Korea are weighing a potential 40-year sentence over his role in the collapse of the Terra ecosystem.

Bitcoin’s (BTC) rebound toward $91,000 marks a decisive recovery from its recent dip to the $82,000 zone, with macro tailwinds — chiefly expectations of an imminent Federal Reserve rate cut — re-energizing market sentiment.

A 21-year-old unemployed Russian man, misguided that cryptocurrency was something that was stored in a safety vault just like any other fiat or valuables, broke into local cryptocurrency exchanges and attempted to steal the digital assets using brute force.

South Korea’s largest crypto exchange, Upbit, has reported a $36 million exploit on the Solana network, a breach that unfolded with unsettling precision on November 27 — the exact date the platform suffered its notorious 2019 hack, when 342,000 ETH were siphoned by North Korea’s Lazarus Group.

South Korea’s KakaoBank has pushed its won-pegged “Kakao Coin” stablecoin into full development, marking one of the most significant blockchain expansions by a major domestic financial institution to date

South Korea’s biggest crypto exchange is set to be folded into one of the nation’s most powerful tech and payments companies, in a multibillion-dollar merger that places stablecoins at the center of Korea’s next major fintech battleground.

Kevin Hassett, the White House economic adviser and director of the National Economic Council, has emerged as the first pick of Donald Trump signalling more than just a personnel change, but Trump's effort to take control over the FED to steer the country's monetary policies closer to the White House preferences.

Spain’s left-wing Sumar party has ignited fresh controversy in the country’s crypto sector after proposing a sweeping set of tax reforms that would dramatically raise the fiscal burden on digital asset investors.