<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>the daily grind</title><description>Crypto news, Web3 hiring trends, and industry insights from Cryptogrind.</description><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>The Weekly Grind (Aug 6–Aug 6): Web3 Salaries Skyrocket to $300k!</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-08-10-weekly-roundup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-08-10-weekly-roundup/</guid><description>Web3 Frontend Engineer salaries hit $90k-$300k in 2026. Discover who&apos;s paying and hiring.</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>weekly-roundup</category><category>web3</category><category>salaries</category><category>crypto-jobs</category><category>engineering</category></item><item><title>Web3 Frontend Engineer Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-08-06-web3-frontend-engineer-salary-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-08-06-web3-frontend-engineer-salary-2026/</guid><description>Discover Web3 Frontend Engineer salaries in 2026: $90k-$300k base. Find out what crypto protocols are paying and who’s hiring.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>careers</category><category>salaries</category><category>jobs</category><category>React</category><category>frontend</category></item><item><title>The Weekly Grind (Jul 30–Jul 30): DeFi Engineers Eye $300k Salaries by 2026</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-08-03-weekly-roundup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-08-03-weekly-roundup/</guid><description>DeFi Protocol Engineers could earn up to $300k by 2026. Here&apos;s what it means for crypto jobs.</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>weekly-roundup</category><category>DeFi</category><category>salaries</category><category>crypto-jobs</category></item><item><title>DeFi Protocol Engineer Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-07-30-defi-protocol-engineer-salary-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-07-30-defi-protocol-engineer-salary-2026/</guid><description>Explore DeFi Protocol Engineer salaries in 2026, ranging from $90,000 to $300,000. Discover what crypto protocols are paying.</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>careers</category><category>salaries</category><category>jobs</category><category>solidity</category><category>DeFi</category></item><item><title>The Weekly Grind (Jul 23–Jul 23): Blockchain Engineer Salaries Soar to $300K</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-07-27-weekly-roundup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-07-27-weekly-roundup/</guid><description>Crypto salaries skyrocket: Blockchain engineers hit $300K in 2026. Discover who&apos;s hiring and what&apos;s driving the paychecks.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>weekly-roundup</category><category>salaries</category><category>blockchain</category><category>jobs</category><category>crypto</category></item><item><title>Blockchain Engineer Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-07-23-blockchain-engineer-salary-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-07-23-blockchain-engineer-salary-2026/</guid><description>Discover Blockchain Engineer salaries in 2026: junior to principal, $90K-$300K. See who&apos;s hiring and what skills boost earnings.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>careers</category><category>salaries</category><category>jobs</category><category>Solidity</category><category>engineering</category></item><item><title>The Weekly Grind (Jul 16–Jul 16): Smart Contract Auditor Salaries Soar to $300k</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-07-20-weekly-roundup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-07-20-weekly-roundup/</guid><description>Smart contract auditor salaries hit $300k in 2026. Explore evolving pay scales and top hiring protocols.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>weekly-roundup</category><category>salaries</category><category>smart-contracts</category><category>hiring</category><category>crypto-jobs</category></item><item><title>Smart Contract Auditor Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-07-16-smart-contract-auditor-salary-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-07-16-smart-contract-auditor-salary-2026/</guid><description>Discover Smart Contract Auditor salaries in 2026: $90k-$300k. Get insights on pay, skills, and top hiring protocols.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>careers</category><category>salaries</category><category>jobs</category><category>Ethereum</category><category>auditing</category></item><item><title>The Weekly Grind (Jul 7–Jul 9): SEC&apos;s $75M Crypto Free Pass &amp; $450M Liquidation Frenzy</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-07-13-weekly-roundup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-07-13-weekly-roundup/</guid><description>SEC drops $75M crypto safe harbor; Trump triggers $450M in liquidations. Rust devs eye $300K in 2026 salaries.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>weekly-roundup</category><category>SEC</category><category>crypto-market</category><category>crypto-jobs</category><category>Bitcoin</category></item><item><title>Rust Developer Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-07-09-rust-developer-salary-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-07-09-rust-developer-salary-2026/</guid><description>Discover Rust Developer salaries in 2026: earn between $90,000 and $300,000 in crypto protocols. See what top companies pay.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>careers</category><category>salaries</category><category>jobs</category><category>Rust</category><category>developer</category></item><item><title>Trump Says Iran Ceasefire Is &apos;Over&apos; — $450M in Crypto Liquidated in Hours</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-iran-ceasefire-over-crypto-crash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-iran-ceasefire-over-crypto-crash/</guid><description>Bitcoin dropped below $62K and $450 million in leveraged positions were liquidated after Trump declared the US-Iran ceasefire dead at the NATO summit, as US jets struck IRGC vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>market</category><category>geopolitics</category><category>liquidations</category></item><item><title>The SEC Just Surrendered: Startups Can Now Raise $75M in Crypto Without Getting Sued</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/sec-surrenders-crypto-safe-harbor-75-million/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/sec-surrenders-crypto-safe-harbor-75-million/</guid><description>SEC Chair Paul Atkins confirmed Regulation Crypto drops this month — a sweeping safe harbor that shields DeFi, tokenized securities, and early-stage builders from SEC enforcement for the first time ever.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>regulation</category><category>sec</category><category>defi</category><category>tokenized-securities</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>fundraising</category></item><item><title>The U.S. Has $20 Billion in Bitcoin and Nobody&apos;s in Charge of It</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/us-bitcoin-reserve-treasury-commerce-turf-war/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/us-bitcoin-reserve-treasury-commerce-turf-war/</guid><description>16 months after Trump signed an executive order creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, two cabinet departments are locked in a turf war — and America hasn&apos;t added a single satoshi to its holdings.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>us-government</category><category>policy</category></item><item><title>Strategy Sold 3,588 Bitcoin at a $15,000-Per-Coin Loss — to Pay Its Own Dividends</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/saylor-strategy-3588-btc-loss-preferred-dividends/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/saylor-strategy-3588-btc-loss-preferred-dividends/</guid><description>Michael Saylor&apos;s Strategy dumped $216M in Bitcoin between June 29 and July 5, selling at $60K a coin against a $75K cost basis. The &apos;never sell&apos; gospel just met preferred stock reality.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>strategy</category><category>microstrategy</category><category>michael-saylor</category><category>institutional</category><category>markets</category></item><item><title>The Weekly Grind (Jun 30–Jul 5): $70B Bug, Trump Coin Losses, &amp; AI Trading</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-07-06-weekly-roundup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-07-06-weekly-roundup/</guid><description>From a $70B Aptos bug to AI trading on Robinhood&apos;s new blockchain, here&apos;s your weekly crypto job market impact.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>weekly-roundup</category><category>security</category><category>regulation</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>AI</category></item><item><title>A Hacker Borrowed $65 Million, Gave It All Back, and Kept $6 Million</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/summer-fi-65-million-flash-loan-6-million-stolen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/summer-fi-65-million-flash-loan-6-million-stolen/</guid><description>Summer.fi&apos;s LazyVault protocol was drained of $6 million in DAI after an attacker exploited a share-accounting flaw — using a $65.4M flash loan to execute the entire heist in a single transaction.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>defi</category><category>exploit</category><category>flash-loan</category><category>security</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>Someone Spent $4M to Vote $20M Out of BonkDAO&apos;s Treasury — And It Was All &apos;Legal&apos;</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bonkdao-20-million-governance-heist/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bonkdao-20-million-governance-heist/</guid><description>A governance attack on BonkDAO drained $20M in BONK tokens from the Solana DAO&apos;s treasury using the project&apos;s own voting system. No smart contract hack required.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>hack</category><category>dao</category><category>solana</category><category>defi</category><category>governance</category><category>security</category></item><item><title>Trump Pocketed $636M. The 988,905 People Who Bought His Meme Coin Lost $3.8 Billion.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-memecoin-988k-wallets-3-8-billion-losses/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-memecoin-988k-wallets-3-8-billion-losses/</guid><description>Blockchain data shows 67% of TRUMP token buyers are underwater with $3.81B in combined losses — while insiders who bought early sit on $4B in gains and the president banked over $636M in royalties.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>memecoins</category><category>trump</category><category>retail-investors</category><category>regulation</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>defi</category><category>on-chain-data</category></item><item><title>White-Hat Hackers Cracked Aptos With a $3,000 Server — $70 Billion Was on the Line</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/aptos-70-billion-hack-3000-server-white-hat/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/aptos-70-billion-hack-3000-server-white-hat/</guid><description>Security firm Hexens found a type-confusion bug in Aptos&apos;s Move VM that let a $3,000 server break a core safety guarantee with 90%+ success rate — putting $70B at systemic risk. The patch dropped within hours. No funds lost. But the close call exposed a fault line under every Move-based chain.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>security</category><category>aptos</category><category>defi</category><category>blockchain</category><category>smart-contracts</category><category>web3</category></item><item><title>California Just Started Fining Unlicensed Crypto Platforms $100,000 a Day</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/california-dfal-100k-daily-fines-crypto-license/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/california-dfal-100k-daily-fines-crypto-license/</guid><description>California&apos;s Digital Financial Assets Law went live July 1. Every exchange, custodian, and Bitcoin ATM serving Californians must now be licensed — or face six-figure daily fines. Your NY BitLicense doesn&apos;t count.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>regulation</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>compliance</category><category>california</category><category>dfal</category></item><item><title>Six Feds Have 14 Days to Write the Rules for a $320 Billion Industry</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/genius-act-14-days-six-agencies-stablecoin-rules/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/genius-act-14-days-six-agencies-stablecoin-rules/</guid><description>The GENIUS Act clock is ticking. Six federal agencies must finalize stablecoin regulations by July 18 — reshaping Circle, Tether, and every bank that wants a piece of the $320B stablecoin market.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>stablecoins</category><category>regulation</category><category>genius-act</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>compliance</category><category>defi</category></item><item><title>10.8 Million Bitcoin Are Now Held at a Loss. Every Time This Happened Before, the Bottom Was In.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-10-million-btc-underwater-bear-market-bottom-signal/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-10-million-btc-underwater-bear-market-bottom-signal/</guid><description>For the first time this cycle, more BTC supply is underwater than in profit. Glassnode data shows 10.83M coins held at a loss versus 9.22M in profit — a crossover that has marked every major bear market bottom in Bitcoin&apos;s history.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>on-chain</category><category>market-analysis</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>bear-market</category></item><item><title>A Privacy Protocol Built to Hide Your Crypto Just Lost 99% of Its Treasury to Hackers</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/hinkal-privacy-protocol-820k-exploit-tornado-cash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/hinkal-privacy-protocol-820k-exploit-tornado-cash/</guid><description>Hinkal, an on-chain privacy protocol, was completely drained of $820K in USDC today via a &apos;proofless deposit&apos; exploit. The attacker laundered the funds through sanctioned mixer Tornado Cash. The irony is staggering.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>defi</category><category>security</category><category>hacks</category><category>privacy</category></item><item><title>Solidity Developer Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-07-02-solidity-developer-salary-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-07-02-solidity-developer-salary-2026/</guid><description>Discover Solidity Developer salaries in 2026: $90k-$300k. See what crypto protocols are paying across all levels.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>careers</category><category>salaries</category><category>jobs</category><category>Solidity</category><category>developer</category></item><item><title>The Ethereum Foundation Imploded. Now Two New Orgs — Backed by $11 Billion in ETH — Are Moving In.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/ethereum-foundation-imploded-ethlabs-ethereum-institutional/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/ethereum-foundation-imploded-ethlabs-ethereum-institutional/</guid><description>Ten days after firing 54 staff and slashing its budget 40%, five of Ethereum&apos;s top researchers quit the Foundation and built a rival. Then Standard Chartered showed up to fund the second one.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>ethereum</category><category>ethereum-foundation</category><category>institutional</category><category>ethlabs</category></item><item><title>Robinhood Just Launched a Blockchain — And AI Agents Can Now Trade Your Money 24/7</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/robinhood-chain-mainnet-ai-agents-tokenized-stocks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/robinhood-chain-mainnet-ai-agents-tokenized-stocks/</guid><description>Robinhood Chain mainnet went live today on Arbitrum, bringing 24/7 tokenized stock trading to 120 countries, a 7% DeFi lending product, and AI agent accounts that execute trades autonomously. HOOD stock jumped 8%.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>robinhood</category><category>layer-2</category><category>tokenized-assets</category><category>defi</category><category>ai-trading</category><category>rwa</category><category>ethereum</category></item><item><title>140 Firms Including Visa, BlackRock, and Google Just Built a Circle Killer</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/140-firms-just-built-a-circle-killer/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/140-firms-just-built-a-circle-killer/</guid><description>Open USD (OUSD) launched June 30 with 140+ backers — Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, Google — and a model that gives 100% of reserve yield to partners instead of the issuer. Circle&apos;s stock crashed 17% overnight.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>defi</category><category>regulation</category><category>wall-street</category><category>hiring</category></item><item><title>He Promised Crypto Liquidity Yields for 3 Years. It Was a Lie. Now He&apos;s Forfeiting 11 Cars.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/goliath-ventures-ceo-400m-crypto-ponzi-guilty/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/goliath-ventures-ceo-400m-crypto-ponzi-guilty/</guid><description>Goliath Ventures CEO Christopher Delgado pleads guilty to a $400M crypto Ponzi scheme, admitting $250M in investor losses. The &apos;liquidity pools&apos; were fake. The Lamborghinis were real.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>fraud</category><category>enforcement</category><category>ponzi</category><category>doj</category><category>defi</category></item><item><title>The UK Just Halved Its Crypto Capital Rules to Poach Firms From Europe</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/uk-fca-crypto-rules-final-undercuts-eu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/uk-fca-crypto-rules-final-undercuts-eu/</guid><description>The FCA dropped its final crypto rulebook today — and deliberately set stablecoin capital requirements 50% lower than the EU&apos;s MiCA to win the post-Brexit race for crypto firms.</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>regulation</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>uk</category><category>mica</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>Saylor Said &apos;Never Sell&apos; for Six Years. His Company Just Authorized Selling $1.25 Billion in Bitcoin</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/strategy-bitcoin-sale-framework-saylor-never-sell/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/strategy-bitcoin-sale-framework-saylor-never-sell/</guid><description>Strategy&apos;s new Digital Credit Capital Framework authorizes up to $1.25B in BTC sales to prop up its preferred stock and fund buybacks — a stunning reversal for the company that built its entire identity on never selling a single satoshi.</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>strategy</category><category>microstrategy</category><category>michael-saylor</category><category>institutional</category><category>markets</category></item><item><title>The Weekly Grind (Jun 25–Jun 28): Polymarket&apos;s $3.1M Hack &amp; Ethereum&apos;s Job Cuts</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-06-29-weekly-roundup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-06-29-weekly-roundup/</guid><description>Polymarket hacked for $3.1M. Ethereum cuts 54 jobs. Crypto roles shift as markets shake.</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>weekly-roundup</category><category>hacks</category><category>job-market</category><category>Ethereum</category><category>regulation</category></item><item><title>In 24 Hours, Binance Goes Dark Across All of Europe — And CZ&apos;s Criminal Record Is Why</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/binance-eu-shutdown-mica-july-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/binance-eu-shutdown-mica-july-1/</guid><description>Starting July 1, Binance suspends trading, deposits, and new sign-ups for millions of EU users across 27 countries after failing to secure a MiCA license. The root cause: Changpeng Zhao&apos;s 2023 U.S. guilty plea.</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>binance</category><category>regulation</category><category>mica</category><category>europe</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>cz</category></item><item><title>The Bank That&apos;s Held Wall Street&apos;s Money Since 1784 Just Opened a Direct Door to Stablecoins</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bny-mellon-usdc-institutional/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bny-mellon-usdc-institutional/</guid><description>BNY Mellon — the world&apos;s largest custodian with $59.3 trillion in assets — just made USDC the first stablecoin on its Digital Asset Custody platform, letting institutions mint and burn dollars into crypto without ever leaving the bank.</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>stablecoins</category><category>institutional</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>circle</category><category>usdc</category><category>tradfi</category><category>custody</category></item><item><title>You Can Now Buy $1 of Saylor&apos;s Bitcoin for 97 Cents — That&apos;s Never Happened Before</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/strategy-mstr-below-bitcoin-nav-saylor-discount/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/strategy-mstr-below-bitcoin-nav-saylor-discount/</guid><description>Strategy&apos;s mNAV just collapsed below 1.0 for the first time in its history. The company Michael Saylor built to be the purest Bitcoin play on earth is now trading at a discount to the Bitcoin it holds. Here&apos;s why the entire corporate treasury model is under pressure.</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>strategy</category><category>microstrategy</category><category>michael-saylor</category><category>institutional</category><category>markets</category></item><item><title>Polymarket Got Hacked 3 Times in 6 Months — Now the CFTC Is Watching</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/polymarket-31m-hack-cftc/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/polymarket-31m-hack-cftc/</guid><description>A supply chain attack on a third-party frontend vendor drained $3.1 million in PUSD from 11 Polymarket wallets. Users never touched a phishing link. They just visited the site. Now the CFTC has opened an investigation into the company for deceptive marketing.</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>hack</category><category>security</category><category>defi</category><category>regulation</category><category>polymarket</category></item><item><title>Ethereum&apos;s Foundation Just Axed 54 Jobs, Killed Its Privacy Research Lab, and Cut the Budget 40% — While ETH Is Down 44%</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/ethereum-foundation-54-jobs-zk-lab-dead/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/ethereum-foundation-54-jobs-zk-lab-dead/</guid><description>The Ethereum Foundation eliminated 54 positions (20% of staff), shut down PSE — its ZK and privacy research lab — and slashed its operating budget by 40%. Former EF researchers are warning of a structural funding gap that could hit Ethereum&apos;s client teams within months.</description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>ethereum</category><category>ethereum-foundation</category><category>layoffs</category><category>defi</category><category>developer</category></item><item><title>The Average BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Investor Is Down 40% — And $1.79 Billion Just Left in One Week</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/ibit-bitcoin-etf-investors-down-40-percent-second-worst-week/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/ibit-bitcoin-etf-investors-down-40-percent-second-worst-week/</guid><description>IBIT investors went from +30% to -40% in under a year. This week marked the second-worst ETF outflow since launch, with 7 straight days of redemptions and $7.2B drained in 2026 alone.</description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>etf</category><category>blackrock</category><category>ibit</category><category>markets</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>The Catholic Church and Every Major Cop Union Just Teamed Up to Kill Crypto&apos;s Biggest Law</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/catholic-bishops-law-enforcement-clarity-act-section-604/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/catholic-bishops-law-enforcement-clarity-act-section-604/</guid><description>82 Catholic bishops and four of the nation&apos;s largest law enforcement organizations sent letters to Senate leadership this week opposing Section 604 of the CLARITY Act — the DeFi developer safe harbor that could decide the future of permissionless finance in America.</description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>defi</category><category>clarity-act</category><category>policy</category></item><item><title>A Hacker Turned $4,000 Into $9.5M in 90 Minutes — And Resupply&apos;s Team Didn&apos;t Even Chase Them</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/resupply-defi-hack-9-5-million/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/resupply-defi-hack-9-5-million/</guid><description>Resupply, a stablecoin lending protocol backed by Convex and Yearn Finance, was drained of $9.5 million via a donation attack on a freshly deployed vault. The attacker started with a $4,000 flash loan and used 1 wei as collateral to borrow 10 million stablecoins.</description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>defi</category><category>hack</category><category>security</category><category>exploit</category></item><item><title>Stablecoin Engineer Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-06-25-stablecoin-engineer-salary-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-06-25-stablecoin-engineer-salary-2026/</guid><description>Explore Stablecoin Engineer salaries in 2026, with base pay ranging from $90K to $300K. Discover what top protocols offer.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>careers</category><category>salaries</category><category>jobs</category><category>Solidity</category><category>Stablecoin Engineer</category></item><item><title>Iran Used a Crypto Exchange You&apos;ve Barely Heard of to Move $3.84 Billion Past US Sanctions</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/coinex-iran-384-billion-sanctions-gateway/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/coinex-iran-384-billion-sanctions-gateway/</guid><description>TRM Labs and the WSJ reveal how CoinEx became Iran&apos;s go-to international crypto gateway — processing $2.7B with Nobitex alone, $6M for IRGC wallets, and even funds from North Korea&apos;s Bybit hack.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>sanctions</category><category>enforcement</category><category>compliance</category><category>regulation</category></item><item><title>The Weekly Grind (Jun 15–Jun 20): $6.75B Stolen, $580M Liquidated, 450M Users at Risk</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-06-22-weekly-roundup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-06-22-weekly-roundup/</guid><description>Crypto chaos: North Korea&apos;s $6.75B crypto heist, $580M liquidations, Binance&apos;s EU ban looms.</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>weekly-roundup</category><category>north-korea</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>binance</category><category>crypto-regulation</category></item><item><title>He Graduated Sunday. By Tuesday He Had $30M and a Crypto Exchange. His Mom Writes the Laws.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/gillibrand-son-apec-30m-perps-exchange/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/gillibrand-son-apec-30m-perps-exchange/</guid><description>Theodore Gillibrand, 22, raised $30 million at a $300M valuation for APEC — a CFTC-licensed perps exchange — days after graduating Stanford. His mother is Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who co-wrote the Genius Act. The crypto industry is very online about it.</description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>fundraising</category><category>derivatives</category><category>defi</category></item><item><title>The G7 Just Declared North Korea&apos;s Crypto Theft Ring a Nuclear Weapons Program — $6.75B Stolen</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/g7-north-korea-crypto-nuclear-6-75-billion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/g7-north-korea-crypto-nuclear-6-75-billion/</guid><description>World leaders at the Évian G7 summit officially classified DPRK crypto heists as a weapons-financing threat. Seven nations. $6.75 billion stolen. Zero arrests.</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>north-korea</category><category>security</category><category>regulation</category><category>enforcement</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>defi</category><category>compliance</category></item><item><title>$580 Million Liquidated in 24 Hours: How Israel&apos;s Lebanon Strikes Blew Up Bitcoin&apos;s Biggest Bullish Catalyst</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/iran-deal-collapses-bitcoin-62k-580m-liquidations/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/iran-deal-collapses-bitcoin-62k-580m-liquidations/</guid><description>The US-Iran peace signing in Switzerland was supposed to be Bitcoin&apos;s green light. Then Israel bombed Lebanon again, Iran walked out, and $580M in crypto positions got wiped in hours.</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>markets</category><category>geopolitics</category><category>liquidations</category></item><item><title>Crypto Treasury Analyst Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-06-18-crypto-treasury-analyst-salary-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-06-18-crypto-treasury-analyst-salary-2026/</guid><description>Explore the 2026 salary range for Crypto Treasury Analysts: $90K-$300K. Discover what top crypto protocols are offering.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>careers</category><category>salaries</category><category>jobs</category><category>blockchain</category><category>analyst</category></item><item><title>America&apos;s Biggest Derivatives Exchange Just Sued Its Own Regulator Over Bitcoin Perps</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/cme-sues-cftc-kalshi-bitcoin-perps/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/cme-sues-cftc-kalshi-bitcoin-perps/</guid><description>CME Group CEO Terrence Duffy announced on CNBC that the $76B exchange will file suit against the CFTC on Thursday — the same agency that regulates it — over its approval of Kalshi&apos;s bitcoin perpetual futures contract.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>cftc</category><category>cme</category><category>kalshi</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>derivatives</category></item><item><title>The ECB President Personally Lobbied to Kill Binance&apos;s EU License — To Clear the Path for the Digital Euro</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/lagarde-kills-binance-eu-digital-euro/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/lagarde-kills-binance-eu-digital-euro/</guid><description>Christine Lagarde allegedly pressured Greece to block Binance&apos;s MiCA application. The motive? Analysts say the ECB is protecting its digital euro from crypto&apos;s biggest exchange.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>binance</category><category>regulation</category><category>mica</category><category>europe</category><category>digital-euro</category><category>ecb</category></item><item><title>In 14 Days, Binance Could Be Banned From 450 Million People</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/binance-eu-ban-mica-greece-july-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/binance-eu-ban-mica-greece-july-1/</guid><description>Greece&apos;s regulator is set to reject Binance&apos;s MiCA license application — and without an EU passport by July 1, the world&apos;s largest crypto exchange faces an existential shutdown across all 27 EU member states.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>binance</category><category>regulation</category><category>mica</category><category>europe</category></item><item><title>The Guy Who Did 4 Months in Prison for No-KYC Just Called a No-KYC DEX &apos;Awesome&apos;</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/cz-hyperliquid-awesome-aster-dex-okx/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/cz-hyperliquid-awesome-aster-dex-okx/</guid><description>CZ praised Hyperliquid&apos;s no-KYC trading model and said he&apos;d &apos;never&apos; run a platform like it. Then OKX&apos;s founder revealed CZ has been quietly backing Aster DEX — a Hyperliquid clone built without KYC.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>binance</category><category>hyperliquid</category><category>defi</category><category>regulation</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>okx</category><category>enforcement</category></item><item><title>The Crypto the SEC Killed Is Back. Telegram Just Became Its Biggest Validator.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/gram-reborn-telegram-largest-validator-ton-rebrand/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/gram-reborn-telegram-largest-validator-ton-rebrand/</guid><description>Toncoin officially rebranded to Gram on June 15, restoring the name Telegram&apos;s SEC-killed 2018 token. Now Telegram is the network&apos;s largest validator — completing one of the wildest second acts in crypto history.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>telegram</category><category>ton</category><category>gram</category><category>regulation</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>defi</category><category>layer1</category></item><item><title>SBF Is in Year 4 of Prison. FTX Is Still Writing Checks — But TODAY Is the Cutoff.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/ftx-deadline-today-fifth-payout-creditors/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/ftx-deadline-today-fifth-payout-creditors/</guid><description>FTX set June 16, 2026 as the record date for its fifth creditor payout round. If you haven&apos;t completed KYC with BitGo, Kraken, or Payoneer, you&apos;re off the list until next time. The exchange has already returned more than $9 billion. It&apos;s not done.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ftx</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>crypto-jobs</category><category>sam-bankman-fried</category><category>creditors</category></item><item><title>The Weekly Grind (Jun 9–Jun 14): SpaceX&apos;s Secret Bitcoin Stash &amp; Crypto Cold War</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-06-15-weekly-roundup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-06-15-weekly-roundup/</guid><description>SpaceX holds 18,712 Bitcoin; EU &amp; Russia escalate crypto tensions. Japan&apos;s tax cut awakens a giant.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>weekly-roundup</category><category>Bitcoin</category><category>crypto-regulation</category><category>NFTs</category><category>DeFi</category></item><item><title>The Strait of Hormuz Reopened and $150M in Bitcoin Shorts Got Liquidated by Morning</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/iran-peace-deal-bitcoin-66k-strait-of-hormuz/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/iran-peace-deal-bitcoin-66k-strait-of-hormuz/</guid><description>Trump declared the US-Iran peace deal &apos;complete&apos; on June 14. Oil crashed 5%. Bitcoin ripped to $66K. Here&apos;s exactly how a Middle East ceasefire became crypto&apos;s biggest macro catalyst of 2026.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>macro</category><category>markets</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>geopolitics</category></item><item><title>Trump&apos;s Crypto Just Paid UFC Champions on the White House Lawn</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/usd1-ufc-white-house-fighter-bonuses/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/usd1-ufc-white-house-fighter-bonuses/</guid><description>World Liberty Financial distributed $250,000 in USD1 stablecoins as fighter bonuses at UFC Freedom 250 — held on the South Lawn of the White House for Trump&apos;s 80th birthday. Real-world crypto payments just got presidential.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>trump</category><category>usd1</category><category>world-liberty-financial</category><category>adoption</category><category>ufc</category></item><item><title>SBF Will Be 59 When He Gets Out. His Last Appeal Just Failed.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/sbf-appeal-denied-25-year-ftx-prison-2044/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/sbf-appeal-denied-25-year-ftx-prison-2044/</guid><description>The Second Circuit unanimously rejected Sam Bankman-Fried&apos;s final appeal on June 12, locking in his 25-year sentence. His projected release date is 2044. Trump already said no to a pardon.</description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ftx</category><category>regulation</category><category>enforcement</category><category>sbf</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>legal</category></item><item><title>The Feds Are Suing 8 States to Let You Bet on Anything Online</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/cftc-sues-8-states-kalshi-prediction-markets-war/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/cftc-sues-8-states-kalshi-prediction-markets-war/</guid><description>The CFTC has filed its 8th lawsuit against a US state — New Mexico — in a sweeping federal campaign to strip states of control over prediction markets. Kalshi, Polymarket, and the entire industry hang in the balance.</description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>prediction-markets</category><category>cftc</category><category>kalshi</category><category>polymarket</category></item><item><title>Japan Has $7.4 Trillion Sitting in Near-Zero Savings Accounts. Metaplanet Just Bought a License to Redirect It Into Bitcoin.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/metaplanet-siiibo-japan-bitcoin-yield-7-trillion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/metaplanet-siiibo-japan-bitcoin-yield-7-trillion/</guid><description>Asia&apos;s MicroStrategy paid $13M for a securities firm so it can sell Bitcoin yield products directly to 126 million Japanese savers — and the deal closes next month.</description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>institutional</category><category>japan</category><category>metaplanet</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>25% of the World&apos;s Most Powerful Tech Companies Now Hold Bitcoin — and Both Are Elon Musk&apos;s</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/saylor-mag8-musk-bitcoin-25-percent/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/saylor-mag8-musk-bitcoin-25-percent/</guid><description>Michael Saylor coins the &apos;Mag8&apos; after SpaceX&apos;s record IPO: two of the eight biggest tech giants on Earth hold Bitcoin on their balance sheets. Elon Musk controls both.</description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>corporate-treasury</category><category>elon-musk</category><category>spacex</category><category>tesla</category><category>strategy</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>You Can&apos;t Use Your Bored Ape as Collateral Anymore: NFTfi Shuts Down After $737M in Loans</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/nftfi-shutdown-nft-lending-dead/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/nftfi-shutdown-nft-lending-dead/</guid><description>NFTfi, the original NFT lending protocol, is calling it quits. After six years and $737 million in peer-to-peer loans, the NFT market has collapsed so hard that even running the servers stopped making sense.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>nft</category><category>defi</category><category>nftfi</category><category>shutdown</category><category>nft-lending</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>SpaceX Just Pulled the Largest IPO in History — and Had 18,712 Bitcoin Nobody Knew About</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/spacex-spcx-ipo-18712-bitcoin-largest-ipo-history/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/spacex-spcx-ipo-18712-bitcoin-largest-ipo-history/</guid><description>SPCX opened 30% above its $135 IPO price today, raising $75 billion in the biggest market debut ever. Hidden in the S-1: SpaceX holds more Bitcoin than Coinbase.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>ipo</category><category>spacex</category><category>corporate-treasury</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>elon-musk</category></item><item><title>GameFi Developer Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-06-11-gamefi-developer-salary-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-06-11-gamefi-developer-salary-2026/</guid><description>GameFi Developer salaries in 2026 range from $90k to $300k. Learn what crypto protocols are offering for top talent.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>careers</category><category>salaries</category><category>jobs</category><category>solidity</category><category>gamefi</category></item><item><title>The EU Just Built a Crypto Kill Switch — Russia Fired Back the Same Day</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/eu-crypto-kill-switch-russia-stablecoin-fees/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/eu-crypto-kill-switch-russia-stablecoin-fees/</guid><description>Europe unveiled a never-before-seen power to ban entire countries from crypto markets. Within hours, Russia slapped 0.5–3% fees on USDT, USDC, and BNB. The crypto cold war just went thermonuclear.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>regulation</category><category>sanctions</category><category>russia</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>Japan Kills Its 55% Crypto Tax: Parliament Passes Bill That Could Awaken the Sleeping Giant</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/japan-crypto-tax-cut-20-percent-etf-parliament/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/japan-crypto-tax-cut-20-percent-etf-parliament/</guid><description>Japan&apos;s Lower House just passed a landmark crypto bill slashing taxes from 55% to 20% and opening the door to spot Bitcoin and XRP ETFs. The crypto world&apos;s most hostile tax regime just became one of its most welcoming.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>regulation</category><category>japan</category><category>etf</category><category>tax</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>Someone Just Bet $290M on Ethereum Hours Before a Secret White House Crypto Meeting</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/clarity-act-white-house-mystery-trader-eth-bet/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/clarity-act-white-house-mystery-trader-eth-bet/</guid><description>A mystery wallet opened a 20x leveraged $14.56M ETH long on Hyperliquid right before the White House hosts law enforcement to decide the fate of the CLARITY Act — and Polymarket just cut the bill&apos;s odds in half.</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>ethereum</category><category>clarity-act</category><category>defi</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>Trump Made $2.3B From Crypto. His Investors Lost $2.3B. Reuters Did the Math.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-family-2-3-billion-crypto-reuters-investigation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-family-2-3-billion-crypto-reuters-investigation/</guid><description>A Reuters investigation tracked four Trump crypto ventures — WLFI, $TRUMP memecoin, ALT5 Sigma, and American Bitcoin — and found a near-perfect transfer of wealth: $2.3 billion to the Trump family, $2.25 billion in losses for retail investors.</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>defi</category><category>trump</category><category>memecoins</category><category>enforcement</category></item><item><title>ZachXBT Says the $32M Humanity Protocol &apos;Hack&apos; Was Possibly Staged — Token Down 90%</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/humanity-protocol-32m-hack-zachxbt-staged/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/humanity-protocol-32m-hack-zachxbt-staged/</guid><description>Worldcoin rival Humanity Protocol lost $32M after a private key compromise tanked $H by 90%. On-chain investigator ZachXBT says the evidence looks like an inside job.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>hacks-exploits</category><category>defi</category><category>security</category><category>zachxbt</category></item><item><title>Paradigm, a16z, and Ribbit Just Co-Signed DeFi&apos;s Biggest Raise Ever — While Everyone Else Is Selling</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/morpho-175m-paradigm-a16z-defi-credit-network/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/morpho-175m-paradigm-a16z-defi-credit-network/</guid><description>Morpho closes a $175M round at a $2B valuation backed by the three heaviest hitters in crypto VC — during one of the worst Bitcoin weeks of the year. Here&apos;s what they see that the market doesn&apos;t.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>defi</category><category>fundraising</category><category>morpho</category><category>a16z</category><category>paradigm</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>crypto-jobs</category></item><item><title>The Weekly Grind (Jun 1–Jun 7): $4.4B Bitcoin ETF Exodus &amp; Arthur Hayes&apos; Dumping Drama</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-06-08-weekly-roundup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-06-08-weekly-roundup/</guid><description>Crypto sees a $4.4B Bitcoin ETF exit while Arthur Hayes faces dumping accusations. Jobs in DeFi surge.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>weekly-roundup</category><category>Bitcoin</category><category>Ethereum</category><category>DeFi</category><category>Crypto-News</category></item><item><title>Trump&apos;s Stablecoin Has a Secret Freeze Button. Justin Sun Just Found Out the Hard Way.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-usd1-wlfi-htx-freeze-justin-sun-delist/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-usd1-wlfi-htx-freeze-justin-sun-delist/</guid><description>World Liberty Financial froze HTX&apos;s on-chain USD1 addresses without warning, citing UK sanctions. Now Justin Sun&apos;s exchange is retaliating by delisting the Trump family&apos;s stablecoin and threatening legal action — exposing a hidden blacklist backdoor baked into WLFI&apos;s smart contract.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>regulation</category><category>defi</category><category>justin-sun</category><category>trump-crypto</category></item><item><title>Bitcoin&apos;s RSI Just Hit 16. The Last Time It Was This Low, the Dip Buyers Cleaned Up</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-rsi-16-worst-week-2026-bottom-signal/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-rsi-16-worst-week-2026-bottom-signal/</guid><description>Bitcoin crashed to $59,100, broke its 200-week moving average for the first time since the FTX collapse, and printed an RSI of 16 — one of the most oversold readings in the asset&apos;s history. Here&apos;s what comes next.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>market-analysis</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>bear-market</category><category>institutional</category></item><item><title>ZachXBT Just Accused Crypto&apos;s Most Famous Trader of Pumping Then Dumping on His Own Followers — 4 Times in 15 Days</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/arthur-hayes-zachxbt-exit-liquidity-wld-hype-near-zec/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/arthur-hayes-zachxbt-exit-liquidity-wld-hype-near-zec/</guid><description>Arthur Hayes publicly hyped HYPE, NEAR, ZEC, and WLD — then sold all four within two weeks. ZachXBT went public with the pattern. WLD crashed 20%. Hayes&apos; response: &apos;I sold to a willing seller.&apos;</description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>arthur-hayes</category><category>worldcoin</category><category>zachxbt</category><category>exit-liquidity</category><category>altcoins</category></item><item><title>The People Who Built Ethereum Are Walking Out the Door — And Joe Lubin Says It&apos;s &apos;Not a Crisis&apos;</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/ethereum-foundation-exodus-8-researchers-quit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/ethereum-foundation-exodus-8-researchers-quit/</guid><description>8 senior Ethereum Foundation researchers quit in 2026 — including Tim Beiko, who ran All Core Devs for years, and Carl Beek, who helped build the Beacon Chain. ETH ETFs just hit 17 straight days of outflows. A former EF researcher now wants a $1B rival org to actually fight for ETH&apos;s price.</description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>ethereum</category><category>ethereum-foundation</category><category>defi</category><category>developer-exodus</category></item><item><title>Bitcoin ETFs Just Went Net Negative for 2026 — And BlackRock Led the Exit</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-etf-record-outflows-4-billion-blackrock-ibit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-etf-record-outflows-4-billion-blackrock-ibit/</guid><description>A record 13-day, $4.4 billion outflow streak just flipped 2026 Bitcoin ETF cumulative flows negative for the first time in history. BlackRock&apos;s IBIT alone shed $3.3 billion. Here&apos;s what happened.</description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>etf</category><category>blackrock</category><category>institutional</category><category>market</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>The Exchange That Tried to Kill Hyperliquid Is Now Studying Its Playbook</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/ice-nyse-hyperliquid-fca-copies-model/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/ice-nyse-hyperliquid-fca-copies-model/</guid><description>Three weeks after the UK FCA warned users to avoid Hyperliquid, ICE CEO Jeffrey Sprecher told Wall Street insiders his company is studying Hyperliquid&apos;s perps model — and talking to regulators about copying it.</description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>hyperliquid</category><category>regulation</category><category>defi</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>wall-street</category></item><item><title>Four of America&apos;s Biggest Banks Are Building a Shared Blockchain to Kill Stablecoins</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/jpmorgan-citi-bofa-wells-fargo-tokenized-deposit-network/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/jpmorgan-citi-bofa-wells-fargo-tokenized-deposit-network/</guid><description>JPMorgan, Citi, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo are teaming up on a tokenized deposit network launching in 2027 — a direct shot at Circle, Tether, and every crypto-native payments player.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>defi</category><category>tradfi</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>An AI Just Proved You Could Print Infinite Zcash — And Nobody Knows If Someone Already Did</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/zcash-orchard-bug-counterfeit-zec-ai-audit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/zcash-orchard-bug-counterfeit-zec-ai-audit/</guid><description>A 4-year-old bug in Zcash&apos;s Orchard privacy pool let anyone mint unlimited counterfeit ZEC undetected. Claude Opus 4.8 found it. An emergency hard fork fixed it. But due to Zcash&apos;s own privacy guarantees, it&apos;s cryptographically impossible to prove it was never exploited.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>security</category><category>zcash</category><category>defi</category><category>privacy</category><category>ai</category></item><item><title>Crypto Data Engineer Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-06-04-crypto-data-engineer-salary-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-06-04-crypto-data-engineer-salary-2026/</guid><description>Discover what Crypto Data Engineers earn in 2026. Salaries range from $120k to $250k. Uncover the highest-paying protocols.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>careers</category><category>salaries</category><category>jobs</category><category>data engineering</category><category>crypto</category></item><item><title>Saylor&apos;s $64B Bitcoin Bet Is $10 Billion Underwater. He&apos;s Blaming AI — And He&apos;s Right.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/saylor-ten-billion-underwater-bitcoin-ai-rotation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/saylor-ten-billion-underwater-bitcoin-ai-rotation/</guid><description>Bitcoin has shed 50% from its $126K ATH while AI stocks set records. $1.5B in longs got liquidated today. Strategy is $10B in the red. And the biggest Bitcoin bull on Earth is pointing at Nvidia.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>michael-saylor</category><category>strategy</category><category>ai</category><category>etf</category><category>markets</category><category>institutional</category></item><item><title>Russia Sanctioned a 17-Year-Old for His Crypto Research Paper — He Was Sitting in Class When He Found Out</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/russia-sanctions-teenager-crypto-research-a7a5/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/russia-sanctions-teenager-crypto-research-a7a5/</guid><description>Alexander Browder, the teenage son of Putin&apos;s most famous enemy, published a report exposing Russia&apos;s A7A5 ruble stablecoin — a $90B-per-year sanctions-evasion machine partly owned by a Russian state bank. Moscow&apos;s response: put him on the list.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>sanctions</category><category>regulation</category><category>enforcement</category><category>russia</category><category>stablecoin</category><category>defi</category></item><item><title>Coinbase Just Plumbed a DeFi Yield Machine Into 100 Million Users&apos; Accounts</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/coinbase-ethena-defi-savings-100-million-users/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/coinbase-ethena-defi-savings-100-million-users/</guid><description>Coinbase Ventures bought ENA tokens on the open market and named itself Ethena&apos;s primary custodian, wallet provider, and perpetuals venue — controlling $5B+ in assets. A savings product for all 100 million Coinbase users drops next week.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>coinbase</category><category>ethena</category><category>defi</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>partnerships</category><category>markets</category></item><item><title>Iran&apos;s $11B Crypto Exchange Was Run by the Supreme Leader&apos;s Inner Circle — Using a Fake Name</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/nobitex-iran-supreme-leader-crypto-exchange-sanctioned/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/nobitex-iran-supreme-leader-crypto-exchange-sanctioned/</guid><description>OFAC just sanctioned Nobitex, Iran&apos;s largest crypto exchange. The founders — members of the Kharrazi dynasty tied to all three supreme leaders — registered the company under a fake surname to hide who they really were.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>enforcement</category><category>sanctions</category><category>iran</category><category>ofac</category><category>irgc</category></item><item><title>Why Build a Canadian Crypto Exchange When You Can Just Buy the Whole Market?</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/robinhood-buys-canada-crypto-wonderfi-bitbuy-coinsquare/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/robinhood-buys-canada-crypto-wonderfi-bitbuy-coinsquare/</guid><description>Robinhood closed its C$250M acquisition of WonderFi today — and with it, absorbed Bitbuy, Coinsquare, 300,000 customers, and a 115-person team. It&apos;s now skipping the regulatory queue in every major market by buying whoever already has the license.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>robinhood</category><category>canada</category><category>exchanges</category><category>mergers-acquisitions</category><category>markets</category><category>regulation</category></item><item><title>The Zombie Exchange That Killed Bitcoin in 2014 Just Moved $739 Million</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/mt-gox-739-million-bitcoin-move-deadline/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/mt-gox-739-million-bitcoin-move-deadline/</guid><description>Mt. Gox transferred 10,422 BTC to a new wallet today — its largest move in months — as the October 31 repayment deadline closes in and Bitcoin breaks below $70,000 for the first time since April.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>mt-gox</category><category>market</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>institutional</category><category>creditors</category></item><item><title>Coinbase Ran From India in 2022. Today It Came Back With a $2.45 Billion Bet.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/coinbase-india-inr-launch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/coinbase-india-inr-launch/</guid><description>Coinbase just launched direct rupee rails in the #1 crypto adoption country on Earth — and quietly took a stake in local giant CoinDCX valued at $2.45 billion. The India land-grab is on.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>coinbase</category><category>india</category><category>markets</category><category>regulation</category><category>exchanges</category><category>adoption</category></item><item><title>The Weekly Grind (May 25–May 31): $1.26B Bitcoin ETF Tsunami &amp; Quantum Threat Looms</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-06-01-weekly-roundup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-06-01-weekly-roundup/</guid><description>Bitcoin ETFs saw $1.26B outflows as quantum hacking fears rise. CFTC&apos;s new perps rule stirs hope.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>weekly-roundup</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>quantum-computing</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>Saylor Said He&apos;d Never Sell. Then He Sold.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/saylor-breaks-promise-strategy-sells-bitcoin/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/saylor-breaks-promise-strategy-sells-bitcoin/</guid><description>Strategy quietly offloaded 32 BTC last week — its first Bitcoin sale in nearly three years — sparking a 5% stock crash and a furious debate about whether the world&apos;s biggest corporate Bitcoin holder just blinked.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>strategy</category><category>microstrategy</category><category>michael-saylor</category><category>institutional</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>Jamie Dimon Called Coinbase&apos;s CEO &apos;Full of Shit&apos; on Live TV — Here&apos;s the $1 Trillion Fight Behind It</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/dimon-armstrong-clarity-act-stablecoin-war/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/dimon-armstrong-clarity-act-stablecoin-war/</guid><description>JPMorgan&apos;s CEO went on Fox Business and called Brian Armstrong &apos;full of shit.&apos; Armstrong replied with a hockey meme. But under the banter is a regulatory war that could decide whether stablecoins become the next savings account — or get killed by banks.</description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>coinbase</category><category>stablecoin</category><category>jpmorgan</category><category>clarity-act</category><category>policy</category></item><item><title>The US Treasury Just Froze $1 Billion in Iranian Crypto — And Some Holders Still Don&apos;t Know</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/us-treasury-operation-economic-fury-1-billion-iran-crypto/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/us-treasury-operation-economic-fury-1-billion-iran-crypto/</guid><description>Operation Economic Fury has seized nearly $1 billion in Iran-linked crypto wallets. Treasury Secretary Bessent says some owners are &apos;typing in right now and not have realized their wallet had been grabbed.&apos;</description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>enforcement</category><category>sanctions</category><category>tether</category><category>iran</category><category>ofac</category></item><item><title>Forget Your Seed Phrase. Quantum Hackers Are Already Stealing Something Worse.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-quantum-harvest-now-decrypt-later/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-quantum-harvest-now-decrypt-later/</guid><description>Security experts warn that nation-states are quietly harvesting encrypted institutional crypto data today — planning to decrypt it once quantum computers arrive. Bitcoin has no plan. Ethereum does. 6.9 million BTC hangs in the balance.</description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>quantum-computing</category><category>security</category><category>ethereum</category><category>regulation</category></item><item><title>Someone Stole the Keys to a $5.4M Bridge — And Laundered It Through Binance Before Anyone Noticed</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/gravity-bridge-exploit-5-4-million-cosmos-ethereum/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/gravity-bridge-exploit-5-4-million-cosmos-ethereum/</guid><description>Gravity Bridge, the cross-chain protocol linking Ethereum to Cosmos, was drained of $5.4 million in a suspected signing key compromise. May 2026 is now the worst month for bridge exploits on record, with $328M stolen.</description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>security</category><category>defi</category><category>hacks</category><category>cosmos</category><category>ethereum</category></item><item><title>Americans Were Locked Out of 80% of Crypto. The CFTC Just Changed That.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/cftc-bitcoin-perpetual-futures-kalshi-coinbase-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/cftc-bitcoin-perpetual-futures-kalshi-coinbase-us/</guid><description>The CFTC approved the first regulated Bitcoin perpetual futures in U.S. history today — at Kalshi and through Coinbase&apos;s Deribit. Perps are a $90 trillion annual market that American traders couldn&apos;t legally touch. Until now.</description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>regulation</category><category>cftc</category><category>coinbase</category><category>derivatives</category><category>markets</category></item><item><title>America Bombed Iran and 167,706 Crypto Traders Got Liquidated in 24 Hours</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-05-29-us-iran-strikes-bitcoin-crash-billion-liquidations/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-05-29-us-iran-strikes-bitcoin-crash-billion-liquidations/</guid><description>U.S. airstrikes on Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz wiped out $958 million in leveraged crypto positions in a single day — 93% of them longs. Bitcoin fell to $72,912. Here&apos;s the full breakdown.</description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>ethereum</category><category>markets</category><category>macro</category><category>geopolitics</category><category>liquidations</category></item><item><title>NFT Engineer Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-05-28-nft-engineer-salary-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-05-28-nft-engineer-salary-2026/</guid><description>NFT Engineers can earn $120k-$400k in 2026. Discover the salary range and top-paying protocols in this comprehensive guide.</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>careers</category><category>salaries</category><category>jobs</category><category>solidity</category><category>NFT Engineer</category></item><item><title>The Guy Guarding Google&apos;s Search Data Used It to Rig Polymarket Bets for 12 Years</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/google-engineer-alphaaraccoon-polymarket-insider-trading/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/google-engineer-alphaaraccoon-polymarket-insider-trading/</guid><description>Michele Spagnuolo, a Google security engineer known as &apos;AlphaRaccoon,&apos; wagered $2.7 million across 25 Polymarket contracts using confidential Year in Search data. He netted $1.2 million — and now faces commodities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering charges in the SDNY.</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>polymarket</category><category>cftc</category><category>regulation</category><category>prediction-markets</category><category>legal</category><category>insider-trading</category><category>web3</category></item><item><title>The &apos;World&apos;s Fastest Blockchain&apos; Just Froze — Again</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/sui-network-outage-second-crash-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/sui-network-outage-second-crash-2026/</guid><description>Sui mainnet stalled for the second time in 2026, halting transactions for nearly an hour and sending SUI tumbling 8%. Three crashes in under three years is a pattern, not bad luck.</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>sui</category><category>layer-1</category><category>outage</category><category>defi</category><category>blockchain</category></item><item><title>Someone Secretly Dumped $1.29 Billion of Bitcoin ETF — And BTC Barely Flinched</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/blackrock-ibit-129-billion-dark-pool-bitcoin-barely-moved/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/blackrock-ibit-129-billion-dark-pool-bitcoin-barely-moved/</guid><description>A single anonymous whale offloaded 29.2 million shares of BlackRock&apos;s IBIT in a dark pool, the largest institutional Bitcoin ETF trade on record. Bitcoin dropped just 1.5%. Here&apos;s what that tells us about the new market.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>etf</category><category>blackrock</category><category>institutional</category><category>markets</category></item><item><title>Jack Dorsey Hates Stablecoins. He Just Gave Them to 60 Million People Anyway.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/jack-dorsey-hates-stablecoins-cash-app-usdc-60-million/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/jack-dorsey-hates-stablecoins-cash-app-usdc-60-million/</guid><description>Block&apos;s Cash App begins rolling out USDC payments to its nearly 60 million users — even as CEO Jack Dorsey publicly admits he doesn&apos;t want to do it.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>cash-app</category><category>jack-dorsey</category><category>solana</category><category>usdc</category><category>payments</category></item><item><title>Polymarket Just Got a Kill Shot: Hyperliquid Lets You Bet on CPI Without Paying a Dime in Fees</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/hyperliquid-hip4-kills-polymarket/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/hyperliquid-hip4-kills-polymarket/</guid><description>Hyperliquid&apos;s HIP-4 launches macro prediction markets — CPI bets, Fed decisions — with zero fees, validator-settled outcomes, and shared margin with your perps. HYPE is up 134% this year and just hit $63.70.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>hyperliquid</category><category>defi</category><category>prediction-markets</category><category>protocol-launch</category></item><item><title>A Hacker Printed $13.5M in Fake Euros and Dollars — and Europe&apos;s Flagship Stablecoin Law Couldn&apos;t Stop It</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/stablr-multisig-hack-eurr-usdr-depeg/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/stablr-multisig-hack-eurr-usdr-depeg/</guid><description>StablR, a MiCA-regulated European stablecoin issuer, was drained by an attacker who exploited a single compromised key to mint 13.5 million in unbacked USDR and EURR tokens. Both stablecoins are now frozen.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>security</category><category>stablecoin</category><category>defi</category><category>regulation</category></item><item><title>Wall Street Just Pulled $1.26 Billion From Bitcoin ETFs in Six Straight Days</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-05-25-bitcoin-etf-outflows-1-26-billion-six-days/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-05-25-bitcoin-etf-outflows-1-26-billion-six-days/</guid><description>U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs hemorrhaged $1.26 billion across six consecutive sessions—the worst outflow week since January—as the Fed&apos;s hawkish pivot spooked institutional holders.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>ETF</category><category>institutional</category><category>macro</category><category>BlackRock</category><category>Fidelity</category></item><item><title>The Weekly Grind (May 19–May 24): $2.4M Iran Bet Scandal Shakes Crypto</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-05-25-weekly-roundup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-05-25-weekly-roundup/</guid><description>Congress targets prediction markets after $2.4M Iran bet. Ethereum talent exodus. Discover the week&apos;s key moves.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>weekly-roundup</category><category>prediction-markets</category><category>Ethereum</category><category>IPO</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>crypto-jobs</category></item><item><title>Index Funds Just Got Forced to Buy Ethereum. They Have No Choice.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/sbet-bmnr-russell-3000-ethereum-treasury-index-funds/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/sbet-bmnr-russell-3000-ethereum-treasury-index-funds/</guid><description>Two Ethereum treasury stocks — BitMine (BMNR) and SharpLink (SBET) — are joining the Russell 3000. $12.2 trillion in benchmarked assets will be forced to hold ETH exposure starting June 29. MicroStrategy&apos;s Bitcoin playbook is officially running on Ethereum.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>ethereum</category><category>institutional</category><category>defi</category><category>hiring</category></item><item><title>9 Traders Hit a 98% Win Rate Betting on Secret Iran Strikes — Congress Just Declared War on Prediction Markets</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/congress-death-bets-act-polymarket-kalshi-iran-insider-trading/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/congress-death-bets-act-polymarket-kalshi-iran-insider-trading/</guid><description>Nine Polymarket accounts made $2.4 million betting on covert U.S. military operations against Iran before any news broke. Now Rep. James Comer is demanding answers from Kalshi and Polymarket CEOs — and the DEATH BETS Act wants to ban war contracts entirely.</description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>polymarket</category><category>regulation</category><category>prediction-markets</category><category>defi</category><category>cftc</category><category>legal</category><category>national-security</category></item><item><title>Vitalik&apos;s Anime Letter Triggered Ethereum&apos;s Biggest Talent Exodus — 8 Senior Researchers Gone</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/ethereum-foundation-anime-letter-brain-drain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/ethereum-foundation-anime-letter-brain-drain/</guid><description>Eight senior Ethereum Foundation researchers quit in 2026, five in May alone. The trigger? A Milady-themed &apos;Mandate&apos; document staff were told to sign or be fired. Now a former EF dev wants $1 billion to replace the whole organization.</description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>ethereum</category><category>protocol</category><category>hiring</category><category>defi</category></item><item><title>The NYSE Just Plugged Oil Markets Into Your Crypto Exchange — And They Never Expire</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/nyse-ice-okx-oil-futures-crypto-tradfi-merger/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/nyse-ice-okx-oil-futures-crypto-tradfi-merger/</guid><description>Intercontinental Exchange, owner of the NYSE, is bringing Brent and WTI perpetual oil futures to OKX&apos;s 120 million users. Wall Street&apos;s energy benchmarks, 24/7, no expiration, no physical delivery. TradFi just moved in.</description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>defi</category><category>markets</category><category>regulation</category><category>hiring</category></item><item><title>The SEC Just Let Wall Street Bet on Bitcoin Without Ever Touching It</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/sec-nasdaq-qbtc-bitcoin-index-options/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/sec-nasdaq-qbtc-bitcoin-index-options/</guid><description>The SEC approved Nasdaq&apos;s cash-settled Bitcoin index options (QBTC) on May 22, giving institutional desks pure BTC price exposure with zero custody headaches. One CFTC sign-off stands between Wall Street and a new derivatives market.</description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>markets</category><category>institutional</category><category>hiring</category></item><item><title>While Kraken and Ledger Blinked, Blockchain.com Just Filed for a $7B IPO</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/blockchain-com-ipo-sec-filing-7-billion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/blockchain-com-ipo-sec-filing-7-billion/</guid><description>Blockchain.com secretly filed a draft S-1 with the SEC as Kraken and Ledger sit on the sidelines. The 15-year-old crypto OG with 95 million wallets is betting it can go public — in one of the coldest IPO markets in years.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>ipo</category><category>regulation</category><category>markets</category><category>hiring</category></item><item><title>Polymarket Left a 6-Year-Old Key Unlocked. Someone Just Took $700K.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/polymarket-700k-private-key-hack-polygon/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/polymarket-700k-private-key-hack-polygon/</guid><description>ZachXBT flagged suspicious drains from Polymarket&apos;s UMA CTF Adapter on Polygon. The culprit: a forgotten six-year-old private key still tied to live operations.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>hacks-exploits</category><category>defi</category><category>polygon</category><category>polymarket</category><category>security</category></item><item><title>The Weekly Grind (May 15–May 21): Web3 Salaries Crash 75%!</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-05-21-weekly-roundup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-05-21-weekly-roundup/</guid><description>Crypto chaos: Web3 salaries plummet 75%, $657M vanished in a tweet, 9,000 ATMs dark.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>weekly-roundup</category><category>Web3</category><category>crypto-jobs</category><category>hackers</category><category>regulation</category></item><item><title>Wallet Engineer Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-05-21-wallet-engineer-salary-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-05-21-wallet-engineer-salary-2026/</guid><description>Discover Wallet Engineer salaries in 2026, ranging from $110K to $250K. See what crypto protocols are paying for this crucial role.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>careers</category><category>salaries</category><category>jobs</category><category>blockchain</category><category>wallet engineer</category></item><item><title>You Can Now Bet on SpaceX&apos;s $2 Trillion IPO on Binance — Without Owning a Single Share</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/binance-spacex-pre-ipo-perpetual-futures/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/binance-spacex-pre-ipo-perpetual-futures/</guid><description>Binance just launched Pre-IPO Perpetual Contracts, letting anyone on earth speculate on SpaceX&apos;s valuation before it goes public. Wall Street just got disintermediated.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>binance</category><category>spacex</category><category>derivatives</category><category>defi</category><category>ipo</category><category>perpetual-futures</category></item><item><title>America Just Gave Stablecoins a Federal ID Card — Senate Passes GENIUS Act 68-30</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/genius-act-senate-passes-stablecoin-law/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/genius-act-senate-passes-stablecoin-law/</guid><description>The US Senate passed the GENIUS Act 68-30, creating America&apos;s first federal stablecoin regulatory framework. 68 senators just decided the future of USDC, Tether, and every dollar-pegged token in crypto.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>stablecoin</category><category>defi</category><category>policy</category></item><item><title>The &apos;Crypto President&apos;s&apos; Own Media Company Just Quit the Bitcoin ETF Market Before Selling a Single Share</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/truth-social-bitcoin-etf-dead-york-ville-withdrawal/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/truth-social-bitcoin-etf-dead-york-ville-withdrawal/</guid><description>Trump Media&apos;s Truth Social quietly withdrew all three of its spot crypto ETF filings from the SEC — the Bitcoin ETF, the BTC/ETH ETF, and the Crypto Blue Chip ETF — before a single share was ever sold. Here&apos;s why the market murdered them before launch.</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>etf</category><category>regulation</category><category>trump</category><category>markets</category></item><item><title>Kraken Fought the Fed for 5 Years to Get a Master Account. Trump Just Ordered Regulators to Fast-Track It for Everyone.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-fed-master-accounts-crypto-payment-rails/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-fed-master-accounts-crypto-payment-rails/</guid><description>Trump&apos;s new executive order directs the Federal Reserve to evaluate giving crypto firms direct access to Fedwire — the same payment rails that process trillions in bank transfers daily. Ripple, Anchorage, and Coinbase are next in line.</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>regulation</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>policy</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>coinbase</category><category>ripple</category><category>defi</category></item><item><title>A Hacker &apos;Stole&apos; $76M in Bitcoin Today. The Actual Damage? $816K.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/echo-protocol-76m-ebtc-monad-admin-key-exploit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/echo-protocol-76m-ebtc-monad-admin-key-exploit/</guid><description>Echo Protocol on Monad was exploited via a compromised admin key — minting 1,000 fake eBTC worth $76.7M. The attacker could only cash out $816K before the team burned the rest. Here&apos;s what actually happened.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>security</category><category>defi</category><category>btcfi</category><category>monad</category><category>exploit</category></item><item><title>Warren Just Called Coinbase&apos;s Bank Charter Illegal — and She Wants Trump&apos;s Texts to Prove It</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/warren-occ-illegal-crypto-bank-charters-coinbase-ripple/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/warren-occ-illegal-crypto-bank-charters-coinbase-ripple/</guid><description>Senator Elizabeth Warren is accusing the OCC of illegally granting national trust bank charters to nine crypto giants including Coinbase, Ripple, Circle, and Paxos — and demanding all communications between OCC officials and the Trump family by June 1.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>regulation</category><category>coinbase</category><category>ripple</category><category>occ</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>policy</category><category>stablecoins</category></item><item><title>9,000 Bitcoin ATMs Went Dark Overnight — America&apos;s Largest Crypto ATM Operator Just Filed for Bankruptcy</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-depot-bankrupt-9000-atms-dark/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-depot-bankrupt-9000-atms-dark/</guid><description>Bitcoin Depot, once the dominant force in Bitcoin ATMs with 9,000 machines across North America, filed Chapter 11 today and pulled the plug on its entire network. The era of the crypto ATM is ending — and regulators killed it.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>crypto-atm</category><category>bankruptcy</category></item><item><title>Trump Typed 7 Words and $657 Million in Crypto Vanished</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-iran-657m-bitcoin-liquidations/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-iran-657m-bitcoin-liquidations/</guid><description>A single Truth Social post warning Iran &apos;the clock is ticking&apos; sent Bitcoin below $77K and triggered the biggest crypto liquidation event since February — wiping out leveraged longs in hours.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>markets</category><category>liquidations</category><category>geopolitics</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>Wall Street Is Lobbying the Government to Kill the Exchange Eating Its Lunch</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/cme-ice-hyperliquid-cftc-wall-street-lobby/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/cme-ice-hyperliquid-cftc-wall-street-lobby/</guid><description>CME Group and ICE — the corporate parents of the world&apos;s biggest futures and stock exchanges — just told the CFTC to regulate Hyperliquid out of existence. HYPE dropped 9%. Arthur Hayes said to get bent.</description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>hyperliquid</category><category>defi</category><category>regulation</category><category>cftc</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>Italy&apos;s $1 Trillion Bank Doubled Its Crypto Bet to $235M — and Completely Dumped Solana</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/intesa-sanpaolo-235m-crypto-dumped-solana/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/intesa-sanpaolo-235m-crypto-dumped-solana/</guid><description>Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy&apos;s largest bank with ~$1 trillion in assets, more than doubled its crypto exposure from $100M to $235M in Q1 2026, added Ethereum and XRP for the first time, bought Bitcoin call options — and slashed its Solana position by 99%.</description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>institutional-adoption</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>ethereum</category><category>solana</category><category>banks</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>A Country&apos;s Bitcoin Fund Says &apos;I Don&apos;t Recall Selling&apos; — But the Blockchain Remembers Everything</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bhutan-bitcoin-1-billion-denied-arkham/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bhutan-bitcoin-1-billion-denied-arkham/</guid><description>Bhutan&apos;s sovereign wealth fund CEO told CoinDesk he doesn&apos;t recall selling any BTC. Arkham Intelligence&apos;s on-chain data shows $1 billion in outflows since mid-2025. Someone is wrong — and the blockchain doesn&apos;t lie.</description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>blockchain-analytics</category><category>sovereign-bitcoin</category></item><item><title>Web3 Salaries Just Crashed 75% — From $553K to $138K in 16 Months</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/web3-salary-crash-75-percent-138k/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/web3-salary-crash-75-percent-138k/</guid><description>New data from Finbold shows the average Web3 salary has hit its lowest point since 2021, with 232 candidates competing for every open role and only 14 developer jobs currently listed globally.</description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>jobs</category><category>salaries</category><category>web3</category><category>hiring</category><category>market</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>Hackers Hit THORChain on 4 Blockchains at Once — $10.8M Gone, Trading Halted, No One Knows How</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/thorchain-10m-exploit-four-chains-rune-halted/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/thorchain-10m-exploit-four-chains-rune-halted/</guid><description>THORChain was drained across Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Base simultaneously on May 15. RUNE dropped 12%, all trading and signing was halted, and the team still hasn&apos;t explained the attack vector.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>defi</category><category>exploit</category><category>security</category><category>thorchain</category><category>hack</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>The New Fed Chair Owns $100M in Crypto — And Nobody at the Fed Has Ever Said That Before</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/kevin-warsh-fed-chair-crypto-holdings-bitcoin/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/kevin-warsh-fed-chair-crypto-holdings-bitcoin/</guid><description>Kevin Warsh just replaced Jerome Powell as Fed Chair on May 15, 2026. He holds Solana, dYdX, Bitcoin Lightning equity, and a stablecoin stake. The most crypto-native person to ever run the Federal Reserve is now in charge of US monetary policy.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>regulation</category><category>federal-reserve</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>One Republican Vote Stood Between Crypto and Real US Law — He Just Flipped</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/clarity-act-senate-committee-passed-kennedy-crypto-law/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/clarity-act-senate-committee-passed-kennedy-crypto-law/</guid><description>Senator Kennedy was the last holdout who could kill the CLARITY Act. Today he voted yes. The most comprehensive crypto market structure bill in US history just cleared the Senate Banking Committee and is headed to the Senate floor.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>clarity-act</category><category>legislation</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>ethereum</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>Hyperliquid Just Killed Its Own Stablecoin — and Handed the Keys to Coinbase</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/hyperliquid-kills-usdh-coinbase-usdc-5-billion-treasury/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/hyperliquid-kills-usdh-coinbase-usdc-5-billion-treasury/</guid><description>Less than a year after launching USDH, Hyperliquid is sunsetting its native stablecoin and making Coinbase the official treasury deployer for $5 billion in USDC. The hottest DeFi exchange just went full centralized on its settlement layer.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>defi</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>hyperliquid</category><category>coinbase</category><category>usdc</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>40% of the CEOs Trump Flew to China Have Crypto Ties — and Bitcoin Just Noticed</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-china-summit-bitcoin-40-percent-ceo-crypto-delegation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-china-summit-bitcoin-40-percent-ceo-crypto-delegation/</guid><description>Trump boarded Air Force One to Beijing with Elon Musk, Larry Fink, Jensen Huang, and Tim Cook. Nearly 40% of the 16-CEO delegation has direct crypto exposure. Bitcoin is watching every minute of these talks.</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>regulation</category><category>institutional</category><category>geopolitics</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>The $12 Trillion Brokerage Just Handed 35 Million Retail Investors Direct Bitcoin Access</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/schwab-spot-crypto-35-million-clients-bitcoin-ethereum/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/schwab-spot-crypto-35-million-clients-bitcoin-ethereum/</guid><description>Charles Schwab launched spot BTC and ETH trading for retail clients today — no new exchange account, no seed phrase, 0.75% flat fee. The largest non-bank brokerage in the US just went full crypto.</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>institutional</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>ethereum</category><category>trading</category><category>adoption</category></item><item><title>Senate Drops 309-Page Crypto Law at Midnight — Democrats Are Blocking It to Stop Trump From Cashing Out</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/senate-clarity-act-309-page-ethics-trump-may-14/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/senate-clarity-act-309-page-ethics-trump-may-14/</guid><description>The most comprehensive crypto regulation in US history goes to a Senate committee vote Thursday. Republicans left out the one clause that would stop senior government officials from personally profiting off the industry they&apos;re regulating. Democrats say no ethics, no votes.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>clarity-act</category><category>legislation</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>defi</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>Blind Signing Has Drained Crypto of Billions. Ethereum Just Launched the Kill Switch.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/ethereum-clear-signing-erc-7730-blind-signing-bybit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/ethereum-clear-signing-erc-7730-blind-signing-bybit/</guid><description>The Ethereum Foundation, Ledger, MetaMask, Trezor, Fireblocks and WalletConnect just launched Clear Signing — an open standard that replaces the hex garbage users blindly approve with human-readable transaction descriptions. Bybit&apos;s $1.5B hack started with a blind signing. So did most of yours.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ethereum</category><category>security</category><category>defi</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>wallets</category><category>erc-7730</category></item><item><title>For 18 Months, Any Miner Could Have Crashed Bitcoin&apos;s Network. 43% of Nodes Still Haven&apos;t Patched.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-core-cve-2024-52911-43-percent-nodes-vulnerable/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-core-cve-2024-52911-43-percent-nodes-vulnerable/</guid><description>Bitcoin Core quietly patched its first-ever memory safety bug in late 2024, disguising the fix as a logging improvement. The vulnerability — now public — let miners remotely crash nodes running versions 0.14.0 through 28.x. Nearly half the network is still exposed.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>security</category><category>bitcoin-core</category><category>infrastructure</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>Circle Built a Blockchain Where Gas Fees Cost Dollars — BlackRock &amp; a16z Just Paid $222M to Get In</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/circle-arc-222m-blackrock-usdc-gas-blockchain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/circle-arc-222m-blackrock-usdc-gas-blockchain/</guid><description>Circle raised $222M from BlackRock, a16z, and Apollo for Arc, a Layer 1 where USDC is the native gas token. $3B valuation, 100+ institution testnet, and a direct shot at Ethereum&apos;s institutional market.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>fundraising</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>layer-1</category><category>institutional</category><category>circle</category><category>usdc</category><category>blackrock</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>Congress Banned Stablecoin Yield. BlackRock Just Filed Two Funds That Give It Back.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/blackrock-stablecoin-yield-tokenized-funds-clarity-loophole/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/blackrock-stablecoin-yield-tokenized-funds-clarity-loophole/</guid><description>The world&apos;s largest asset manager quietly filed SEC paperwork for two tokenized money-market funds specifically designed to let stablecoin holders earn Treasury yield — the same yield that Congress just voted to ban stablecoins from paying. The loophole is elegant. The implications are massive.</description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>blackrock</category><category>stablecoin</category><category>rwa</category><category>ethereum</category><category>tokenization</category><category>regulation</category><category>defi</category><category>institutional</category></item><item><title>Wall Street Built a VIX for Bitcoin — And It Goes Live June 1</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/cme-bitcoin-volatility-futures-bvi-vix-crypto/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/cme-bitcoin-volatility-futures-bvi-vix-crypto/</guid><description>CME Group is launching Bitcoin Volatility futures (BVI) on June 1, giving institutional traders the first CFTC-regulated way to bet on how wild Bitcoin gets — not just where it goes. The VIX just got a crypto twin.</description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>institutional</category><category>derivatives</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>cme</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category></item><item><title>In 48 Hours, Kraken Dropped $600M and Applied to Become a Federal Bank</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/kraken-600m-reap-occ-charter-banking-empire/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/kraken-600m-reap-occ-charter-banking-empire/</guid><description>Kraken parent Payward acquired Hong Kong stablecoin firm Reap for $600M on May 7, then filed for a federal OCC trust charter on May 8. That&apos;s $2.65 billion in acquisitions and a banking license application in a single year. Here&apos;s the empire they&apos;re building.</description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>kraken</category><category>regulation</category><category>stablecoin</category><category>institutional</category><category>hiring</category><category>crypto-careers</category></item><item><title>Tether Froze $515 Million in USDT Last Month — Using a Kill Switch You Didn&apos;t Know Existed</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/tether-515m-usdt-freeze-kill-switch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/tether-515m-usdt-freeze-kill-switch/</guid><description>In 30 days, Tether silently blacklisted 371 wallets and froze $515 million in USDT across Tron and Ethereum — no court order required. That&apos;s 40% of everything they froze in all of 2025, done in a single month. Here&apos;s how the kill switch works, who&apos;s using it, and what it means for crypto.</description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>tether</category><category>usdt</category><category>stablecoin</category><category>regulation</category><category>enforcement</category><category>defi</category><category>compliance</category></item><item><title>Oil Crossed $100 Last Night and Crypto Just Lost $300 Million</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/iran-oil-100-bitcoin-300m-liquidations/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/iran-oil-100-bitcoin-300m-liquidations/</guid><description>Geopolitical escalation in the Middle East sent Brent crude above $100 a barrel overnight, wiping out $300 million in leveraged crypto bets by morning. This is what war does to 24/7 markets.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>markets</category><category>geopolitics</category><category>liquidations</category><category>macro</category></item><item><title>The Hottest Job in Crypto Didn&apos;t Exist a Year Ago: Meet the AI Agent Manager</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/web3-ai-agent-manager-jobs-53-percent/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/web3-ai-agent-manager-jobs-53-percent/</guid><description>More than half of all Web3 job postings now require AI skills — up from 23% just 12 months ago. The classic individual contributor is being replaced by something new: the AI Agent Manager. Here&apos;s what that means for your crypto career.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>jobs</category><category>ai</category><category>crypto-careers</category><category>web3</category><category>hiring</category></item><item><title>Coinbase Fired 700 People and the CEO Says Your Company Is Next</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/coinbase-700-layoffs-ai-armstrong-every-company/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/coinbase-700-layoffs-ai-armstrong-every-company/</guid><description>Coinbase just cut 14% of its workforce — 700 jobs gone in a single day. CEO Brian Armstrong didn&apos;t just explain the layoffs. He warned every company in America that AI is coming for their headcount too.</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>layoffs</category><category>coinbase</category><category>ai</category><category>jobs</category><category>crypto-careers</category></item><item><title>Someone Sent Grok a Morse Code Tweet — Then Walked Away With $175K in Crypto</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/grok-morse-code-200k-ai-agent-hack/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/grok-morse-code-200k-ai-agent-hack/</guid><description>A single obfuscated tweet tricked xAI&apos;s Grok into executing a $175K on-chain transfer — no private keys stolen, no smart contract exploit. Just a chatbot doing what it was told.</description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>security</category><category>ai-agents</category><category>defi</category><category>web3</category><category>hacks</category></item><item><title>A Bitcoin Miner Dumped Its Mining Ops for AI — Then Signed a $9.8B Deal and Hit an All-Time High Stock Price</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/hut8-9-billion-ai-pivot-bitcoin-miner-all-time-high/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/hut8-9-billion-ai-pivot-bitcoin-miner-all-time-high/</guid><description>Hut 8 sold its Bitcoin mining rigs to Eric Trump&apos;s American Bitcoin, pivoted hard to AI data centers, and just inked a 15-year, $9.8 billion lease in Texas. The stock is up 30% and at an all-time high. The playbook just changed.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin-mining</category><category>ai</category><category>hut8</category><category>data-centers</category><category>nvidia</category><category>eric-trump</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>Pavel Durov Just Killed the TON Foundation and the Market Pumped 36% — Welcome to &apos;Decentralization&apos;</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/telegram-ton-takeover-mtonga-durov/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/telegram-ton-takeover-mtonga-durov/</guid><description>Telegram is replacing the TON Foundation, becoming the blockchain&apos;s largest validator, and slashing fees sixfold. TON surged 36%. Decentralization theater is officially dead — and the market loves it.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>ton</category><category>telegram</category><category>durov</category><category>defi</category><category>layer1</category><category>staking</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>A Crypto Exchange Just Bought Wall Street&apos;s Back Office for $4.2 Billion</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bullish-equiniti-4-billion-tokenized-securities/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bullish-equiniti-4-billion-tokenized-securities/</guid><description>Bullish, the Peter Thiel-backed crypto exchange, is acquiring Equiniti — the transfer agent behind 20 million shareholders and $500 billion in annual payments — in one of the largest crypto deals ever. Wall Street&apos;s plumbing is going on-chain.</description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>tokenization</category><category>institutional</category><category>defi</category><category>wall-street</category><category>acquisitions</category></item><item><title>JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, and the CFTC Chair All Showed Up to Crypto&apos;s Biggest Conference — on the Same Day Bitcoin Hit $81K</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/consensus-miami-wall-street-bitcoin-81k/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/consensus-miami-wall-street-bitcoin-81k/</guid><description>Consensus Miami 2026 opened with a jaw-dropper: Wall Street didn&apos;t just attend — they sponsored. Institutional attendance doubled to 35% of the crowd, representing $10 trillion in AUM. Bitcoin noticed.</description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>consensus</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>institutional</category><category>wall-street</category><category>hiring</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>Kraken&apos;s Banker Was Allegedly Running a Ponzi Scheme With Client Funds — And Covered It Up for a Year</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/kraken-etana-25m-ponzi-custody-fraud/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/kraken-etana-25m-ponzi-custody-fraud/</guid><description>Kraken&apos;s parent Payward just sued its former custodian Etana for misappropriating $25 million in client funds in what it calls a &apos;Ponzi-like&apos; scheme. Etana allegedly stalled withdrawals with fake reconciliation issues while plugging holes with new deposits.</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>enforcement</category><category>fraud</category><category>kraken</category><category>custody</category><category>lawsuit</category><category>defi</category></item><item><title>The Ethereum L2 That Processed a Billion Transactions Just Turned Off Forever — $34M Is Still Inside</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/zksync-lite-shutdown-ethereum-l2-dead/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/zksync-lite-shutdown-ethereum-l2-dead/</guid><description>ZKsync Lite shut down permanently today, May 4, 2026. The original ZK-rollup that helped prove the technology works is gone. $33.9 million in user funds are still bridged to a dead network — and this is only the beginning of L2 consolidation.</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>ethereum</category><category>layer-2</category><category>zksync</category><category>defi</category><category>infrastructure</category></item><item><title>276 People Just Got Arrested Running the Same Crypto Scam Type That Ensnared Trump&apos;s Own Venture</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/fbi-276-arrests-pig-butchering-crypto-bust/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/fbi-276-arrests-pig-butchering-crypto-bust/</guid><description>The FBI coordinated with Dubai Police and Thai authorities to bust 276 people across 9 pig butchering scam centers — the same fraud method that put Trump&apos;s World Liberty Financial in headlines last week.</description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>enforcement</category><category>fraud</category><category>pig-butchering</category><category>fbi</category><category>doj</category><category>world-liberty-financial</category></item><item><title>Coinbase Just Agreed to Kill Passive Stablecoin Yield — And They&apos;re Calling It a Win</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/coinbase-clarity-act-stablecoin-yield-ban/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/coinbase-clarity-act-stablecoin-yield-ban/</guid><description>The CLARITY Act stablecoin yield compromise bans &apos;hold and earn&apos; stablecoin rewards in the US. Coinbase backed the deal anyway. Here&apos;s the multi-billion dollar calculation behind that decision.</description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>coinbase</category><category>clarity-act</category><category>legislation</category><category>usdc</category></item><item><title>Gemini Just Beat Every Crypto Exchange in the World — It Now Controls Its Entire Derivatives Pipeline, Legally</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/gemini-cftc-full-derivatives-stack/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/gemini-cftc-full-derivatives-stack/</guid><description>Gemini quietly assembled the full CFTC regulatory stack — a DCM license to list derivatives and a DCO license to clear them in-house. No other purely crypto-native exchange has pulled this off. Futures, perps, and prediction markets are next.</description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>derivatives</category><category>gemini</category><category>cftc</category><category>futures</category><category>perps</category></item><item><title>500 Ethereum Wallets That Hadn&apos;t Moved in 8 Years Were Just Drained — And Nobody Knows How</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/dormant-ethereum-wallets-drained-coordinated-attack/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/dormant-ethereum-wallets-drained-coordinated-attack/</guid><description>A coordinated attacker swept over 500 long-dormant Ethereum addresses, stealing ~$800K and routing funds through ThorChain. The compromise vector is still unknown — and your old wallets may not be safe.</description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>ethereum</category><category>security</category><category>defi</category><category>hacks</category></item><item><title>Visa Just Settled $7 Billion in Stablecoins — and Quietly Doubled Its Blockchain Network</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/visa-7-billion-stablecoin-settlement-nine-blockchains/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/visa-7-billion-stablecoin-settlement-nine-blockchains/</guid><description>Visa&apos;s stablecoin settlement pilot hit a $7B annualized run rate — up 50% in a single quarter — and just expanded to 9 blockchains including Base, Polygon, and Stripe&apos;s Tempo. TradFi isn&apos;t coming to crypto. It&apos;s already here.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>stablecoin</category><category>visa</category><category>payments</category><category>institutional</category><category>base</category><category>polygon</category></item><item><title>Is North Korea Running an AI That Automatically Hacks DeFi? April&apos;s $625M Record Says the Theory Isn&apos;t Crazy</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/north-korea-ai-defi-hacker-april-625m-record/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/north-korea-ai-defi-hacker-april-625m-record/</guid><description>April 2026 was the worst month in crypto hack history: 30 attacks, $625M drained, North Korea behind 76% of it. Now a developer is claiming DPRK trained an AI to autonomously exploit DeFi — and the Wasabi Protocol&apos;s $5M multi-chain drain may be its latest hit.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>hack</category><category>defi</category><category>north-korea</category><category>security</category><category>wasabi-protocol</category></item><item><title>Vitalik&apos;s $470M Ethereum L2 Launched Its Token Today — Hit ATH and Dumped 20% in the Same Hour</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/megaeth-mega-token-launch-470m-pump-dump/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/megaeth-mega-token-launch-470m-pump-dump/</guid><description>MegaETH&apos;s $MEGA token went live April 30, 2026. Backed by Vitalik Buterin and Joe Lubin with $470M in funding, claiming 100,000 TPS — and airdropping to 500,000 wallets on day one. Here&apos;s the full breakdown.</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>ethereum</category><category>layer2</category><category>defi</category><category>token-launch</category><category>airdrop</category></item><item><title>South Korea&apos;s Biggest Credit Card Company Just Chose Solana to Power Payments for 28 Million Users</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/shinhan-card-solana-28m-users-stablecoin/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/shinhan-card-solana-28m-users-stablecoin/</guid><description>Shinhan Card — South Korea&apos;s largest card issuer with $145B in annual transaction volume — signed an MOU with the Solana Foundation to build a stablecoin payment stack. They already completed six proof-of-concept projects alongside Visa, Mastercard, and Fireblocks.</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>solana</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>payments</category><category>south-korea</category><category>defi</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>Western Union, Founded in 1851, Just Killed SWIFT With a Solana Stablecoin</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/western-union-dumps-swift-solana-usdpt/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/western-union-dumps-swift-solana-usdpt/</guid><description>The 175-year-old money transfer giant confirmed its USDPT stablecoin launches on Solana in May — replacing SWIFT for global agent settlements. The first real-world partner went live this week.</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>solana</category><category>tradfi</category><category>regulation</category><category>remittance</category></item><item><title>Pump.fun Just Lit $370 Million on Fire — and the Community Is Furious</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/pumpfun-370m-burn-pump-token-backlash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/pumpfun-370m-burn-pump-token-backlash/</guid><description>Pump.fun burned 36% of PUMP&apos;s entire circulating supply overnight — $370M vaporized in two transactions. Then came the twist: those tokens were supposed to be airdrops. Now Solana&apos;s biggest meme coin launchpad is at war with its own community.</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>solana</category><category>memecoins</category><category>defi</category><category>tokenomics</category><category>pump-fun</category></item><item><title>Bitcoin Has Crashed After 8 of Powell&apos;s Last 9 Fed Meetings. He Has One Left.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-fomc-powell-last-meeting-sell-the-news/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-fomc-powell-last-meeting-sell-the-news/</guid><description>Tomorrow is Jerome Powell&apos;s final FOMC press conference before Kevin Warsh takes the chair on May 15. Bitcoin is up 21% since early April — and history says the 48 hours after a Fed decision are the most dangerous window in crypto.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>markets</category><category>fed</category><category>macro</category><category>trading</category></item><item><title>Ethereum&apos;s Biggest Rivals Just Pooled $300M to Bail Out a North Korean Hack — and It Might Actually Work</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/defi-united-300m-aave-rseth-rescue-kelpdao/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/defi-united-300m-aave-rseth-rescue-kelpdao/</guid><description>DeFi United drops its technical rescue blueprint today, with Consensys, Aave, Compound, the Solana Foundation and 14 other protocols pledging $300M+ in ETH to re-collateralize rsETH after the $292M Lazarus-linked KelpDAO exploit. This is the most coordinated cross-protocol rescue in DeFi history.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>defi</category><category>security</category><category>aave</category><category>ethereum</category><category>north-korea</category><category>lazarus</category></item><item><title>US Traders Have Been Using Illegal Offshore Exchanges for Crypto Perps for Years. That Ended Today.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/kalshi-polymarket-crypto-perps-us-regulated/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/kalshi-polymarket-crypto-perps-us-regulated/</guid><description>Kalshi launched CFTC-regulated Bitcoin perpetual futures on April 27 — and Polymarket panicked and launched theirs first to beat them. The race to own America&apos;s $100B crypto derivatives market is on.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>derivatives</category><category>regulation</category><category>cftc</category><category>kalshi</category><category>polymarket</category><category>defi</category><category>markets</category></item><item><title>The Weekly Grind (Apr 21–Apr 27): $606M DeFi Hack Frenzy &amp; U.S. Crypto Derivatives Race</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-04-27-weekly-roundup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-04-27-weekly-roundup/</guid><description>DeFi hacks hit $606M in 18 days, while Kalshi and Polymarket battle for the U.S. crypto derivatives market.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>weekly-roundup</category><category>DeFi</category><category>crypto-derivatives</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>AI</category></item><item><title>Solidity Developer Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-04-27-solidity-developer-salary-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/2026-04-27-solidity-developer-salary-2026/</guid><description>Discover Solidity Developer salaries in 2026: $90k-$350k. Get the numbers and insights on what crypto protocols are offering.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>careers</category><category>salaries</category><category>jobs</category><category>solidity</category><category>developer</category></item><item><title>The FBI Director Just Walked Into a Bitcoin Conference to Say the War on Bitcoin Is Over</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/fbi-director-bitcoin-2026-code-is-free-speech/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/fbi-director-bitcoin-2026-code-is-free-speech/</guid><description>Kash Patel and Acting AG Todd Blanche take the stage at Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas today — the nation&apos;s top law enforcement officials declaring &apos;Code is Free Speech&apos; at the world&apos;s biggest Bitcoin event.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>regulation</category><category>policy</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>developer-rights</category></item><item><title>Litecoin Just Erased 3 Hours of Its Own Blockchain History — Then Lied About Why</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/litecoin-zero-day-mweb-13-block-reorg/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/litecoin-zero-day-mweb-13-block-reorg/</guid><description>A zero-day exploit in Litecoin&apos;s MimbleWimble privacy layer triggered a 13-block chain reorg, wiping three hours of transactions. Litecoin denied it was a zero-day. GitHub commits say otherwise.</description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>litecoin</category><category>hack</category><category>exploit</category><category>security</category><category>mweb</category><category>defi</category></item><item><title>Morgan Stanley Just Made Itself the Fed for Stablecoins — Tether and Circle Now Pay It Interest</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/morgan-stanley-stablecoin-reserve-bank/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/morgan-stanley-stablecoin-reserve-bank/</guid><description>Morgan Stanley&apos;s new MSNXX Stablecoin Reserves Portfolio quietly makes the $200B wealth manager the preferred reserve custodian for the entire stablecoin industry under the GENIUS Act.</description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>institutional</category><category>regulation</category><category>tradfi</category><category>genius-act</category></item><item><title>69,000 AI Agents Are Already Spending Crypto — And None of Them Asked Permission</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/coinbase-x402-ai-agents-crypto-payments/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/coinbase-x402-ai-agents-crypto-payments/</guid><description>Coinbase&apos;s x402 protocol just launched an app store where AI agents autonomously buy Bloomberg data, AWS compute, and trading APIs with USDC — no human approval required. 165 million transactions have already settled.</description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>coinbase</category><category>ai</category><category>defi</category><category>infrastructure</category><category>base</category><category>stablecoins</category></item><item><title>Presidential Access Costs $500 and a 96% Loss: Trump Hosts TRUMP Memecoin Whales at Mar-a-Lago Today</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-memecoin-maralago-luncheon/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-memecoin-maralago-luncheon/</guid><description>The sitting U.S. president is meeting the top 297 holders of his personal memecoin at Mar-a-Lago today — while the token sits 96% below its all-time high and Senate Democrats launch a formal investigation.</description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>memecoins</category><category>regulation</category><category>trump</category><category>politics</category></item><item><title>A Green Beret Helped Plan the Maduro Raid. Then He Bet $33K on Polymarket and Walked Away With $410K.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/green-beret-polymarket-insider-trading-maduro/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/green-beret-polymarket-insider-trading-maduro/</guid><description>U.S. Army Master Sergeant Gannon Van Dyke is the first person charged with using classified military intelligence to insider-trade on a crypto prediction market. The DOJ and CFTC both came for him.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>polymarket</category><category>defi</category><category>regulation</category><category>prediction-markets</category><category>doj</category><category>cftc</category><category>legal</category></item><item><title>Wisconsin Just Called Your Polymarket Trades Illegal Gambling — And Coinbase Is in the Dock Too</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/wisconsin-prediction-markets-coinbase-kalshi-illegal-gambling/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/wisconsin-prediction-markets-coinbase-kalshi-illegal-gambling/</guid><description>Wisconsin&apos;s AG filed two separate lawsuits on April 23 targeting Kalshi, Coinbase, Robinhood, Polymarket, and Crypto.com — using the platforms&apos; own marketing copy against them in a case that could reach the Supreme Court.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>prediction-markets</category><category>coinbase</category><category>polymarket</category><category>defi</category><category>legal</category></item><item><title>One Publicly Traded Company Now Owns 4% of All Ethereum — and Is 24,000 Tokens from 5%</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitmine-bmnr-4-percent-eth-supply-staking/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitmine-bmnr-4-percent-eth-supply-staking/</guid><description>Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR) has quietly amassed 4.976 million ETH worth $12.9B, staked 70% of it through Coinbase Prime, and is now printing $221M a year in staking rewards — on autopilot.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>ethereum</category><category>institutional</category><category>staking</category><category>markets</category></item><item><title>North Korea Just Sent Your CEO a Fake Zoom Invite — Then Drained Their Crypto Wallet</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/lazarus-mach-o-man-macos-crypto-executives/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/lazarus-mach-o-man-macos-crypto-executives/</guid><description>Lazarus Group&apos;s new &apos;Mach-O Man&apos; macOS malware is targeting crypto and fintech executives with convincing fake meeting invites, stealing keychain data and wallet credentials before erasing itself completely.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>security</category><category>north-korea</category><category>lazarus-group</category><category>hacks</category><category>macos</category><category>social-engineering</category></item><item><title>Tomorrow, You Can Bet 3x on XRP — and Lose Everything Before Lunch</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/graniteshares-3x-xrp-etf-nasdaq/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/graniteshares-3x-xrp-etf-nasdaq/</guid><description>GraniteShares launches the first-ever triple-leveraged XRP ETFs on Nasdaq April 23. One bad day wipes your position completely.</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>xrp</category><category>etf</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>tradfi</category><category>leveraged-etf</category><category>regulation</category></item><item><title>The UK Has Zero Legal Crypto P2P Traders. The FCA Just Raided 8 of Them.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/uk-fca-raids-8-illegal-crypto-p2p-hubs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/uk-fca-raids-8-illegal-crypto-p2p-hubs/</guid><description>Britain&apos;s financial watchdog hit eight London crypto shops in a single day — marking the country&apos;s first-ever coordinated crackdown on illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading.</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>enforcement</category><category>uk</category><category>compliance</category><category>aml</category></item><item><title>DeFi Lost More in 18 Days Than All of Q1 — And Congress Just Called an Emergency Hearing</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/april-defi-bloodbath-606m-18-days-congress-hearing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/april-defi-bloodbath-606m-18-days-congress-hearing/</guid><description>April 2026 is already the worst month for crypto hacks since February 2025. $606 million gone in 18 days. 3.7x the entire first quarter. Today, Congress is holding hearings. Here&apos;s what broke.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>defi</category><category>security</category><category>hacks</category><category>regulation</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>lazarus-group</category></item><item><title>One Company Now Controls More Bitcoin Than BlackRock — And It Just Bought $2.54 Billion More</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/strategy-815k-btc-blackrock-surpassed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/strategy-815k-btc-blackrock-surpassed/</guid><description>Strategy&apos;s 815,061 BTC hoard just eclipsed BlackRock&apos;s ETF holdings after a record $2.54B single purchase. Michael Saylor says he&apos;s not done.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>institutional</category><category>strategy</category><category>michael-saylor</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>An AI Tool No One Audited Just Cracked Open Crypto&apos;s Entire Frontend Layer</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/vercel-breach-crypto-frontend-context-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/vercel-breach-crypto-frontend-context-ai/</guid><description>Hackers breached Vercel — the hosting backbone for thousands of DeFi apps — by exploiting a compromised third-party AI platform. API keys, tokens, and source code are on sale for $2M on BreachForums.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>security</category><category>defi</category><category>web3</category><category>infrastructure</category><category>hacks</category></item><item><title>The Man Who Could Set US Interest Rates Owns Solana, dYdX, and Polymarket</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/warsh-fed-chair-crypto-defi-senate-hearing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/warsh-fed-chair-crypto-defi-senate-hearing/</guid><description>Kevin Warsh — Trump&apos;s pick to replace Jerome Powell as Fed Chair — heads into his Senate confirmation hearing tomorrow with 30+ crypto investments in his portfolio. Here&apos;s what it means for rates, regulation, and the entire industry.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>fed</category><category>defi</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>jobs</category><category>institutional</category></item><item><title>The NFT-Era L2s Are Dying. Mint Blockchain and Myria Just Killed the Lights.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/nft-l2-graveyard-mint-myria-shutdown/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/nft-l2-graveyard-mint-myria-shutdown/</guid><description>Mint Blockchain shut down April 17. Myria is pulling the plug on its L2 with an April 27 asset-bridging deadline. They&apos;re not alone — 20+ crypto projects went dark in Q1 2026. The NFT-era infrastructure bubble is officially over.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>defi</category><category>nft</category><category>ethereum</category><category>layer2</category><category>jobs</category><category>market</category></item><item><title>Someone Forged a Single Message and Walked Away With $292 Million of Restaked ETH</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/kelp-dao-rseth-292m-layerzero-bridge-exploit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/kelp-dao-rseth-292m-layerzero-bridge-exploit/</guid><description>Kelp DAO&apos;s rsETH bridge was drained in minutes after an attacker forged LayerZero cross-chain messages. Bad debt cascaded across Aave, Compound, and Euler. It&apos;s 2026&apos;s biggest DeFi hack — so far.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>hack</category><category>defi</category><category>layerzero</category><category>aave</category><category>restaking</category><category>security</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>Kraken Just Bought the Only Key That Unlocks U.S. Crypto Derivatives — For $550 Million</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/kraken-bitnomial-550m-cftc-derivatives-monopoly/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/kraken-bitnomial-550m-cftc-derivatives-monopoly/</guid><description>Payward&apos;s acquisition of Bitnomial hands Kraken a decade-long regulatory moat: the only full-stack CFTC-licensed crypto derivatives platform in America. No one else has all three licenses.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>acquisitions</category><category>kraken</category><category>cftc</category><category>derivatives</category><category>regulation</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>The Secret Service Mapped 20,000 Crypto Scam Victims — And Your Wallet Might Be on the List</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/operation-atlantic-secret-service-crypto-approval-phishing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/operation-atlantic-secret-service-crypto-approval-phishing/</guid><description>Operation Atlantic, a joint US-UK-Canada law enforcement strike, froze $12M and traced $45M in crypto approval phishing fraud across 30+ countries. Here&apos;s what that means for the industry.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>enforcement</category><category>security</category><category>regulation</category><category>defi</category></item><item><title>France Is Having a Crypto Kidnapping Every 2.5 Days — and the Government Is Finally Cracking Down</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/france-crypto-kidnapping-one-every-2-5-days/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/france-crypto-kidnapping-one-every-2-5-days/</guid><description>41 violent crypto kidnappings in 2026. France now has the worst crypto ransom attack rate in the world, and the interior ministry just admitted they&apos;ve lost control.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>security</category><category>regulation</category><category>crime</category><category>europe</category></item><item><title>The World&apos;s Most Sanctioned Crypto Exchange Just Got Hacked — and It&apos;s Blaming the CIA</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/grinex-hack-garantex-successor-western-spies/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/grinex-hack-garantex-successor-western-spies/</guid><description>Grinex — the sanctions-dodging successor to Russia&apos;s notorious Garantex — shut down after a $13M hack and blamed &apos;Western special services.&apos; The irony is too rich.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>hacks</category><category>russia</category><category>sanctions</category><category>enforcement</category><category>defi</category><category>exchange</category></item><item><title>Bitcoin Devs Just Cooked Up a Quantum Tripwire That Would Freeze Satoshi&apos;s $74B in BTC</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-quantum-tripwire-satoshi-coins-freeze/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-quantum-tripwire-satoshi-coins-freeze/</guid><description>A new &apos;canary address&apos; proposal would only freeze 6.5 million vulnerable BTC — including Satoshi&apos;s coins — if a quantum computer actually proves it can break Bitcoin first. Adam Back says there&apos;s a better way.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>quantum</category><category>security</category><category>bip-361</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>developers</category></item><item><title>North Korea Robbed Drift. Tether Wrote the Check — and Just Dethroned Circle on Solana.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/drift-tether-148m-rescue-usdc-dethroned/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/drift-tether-148m-rescue-usdc-dethroned/</guid><description>Tether is bailing out Drift Protocol with $148M after North Korea&apos;s $285M heist — but the real play is quietly replacing Circle&apos;s USDC as Solana DeFi&apos;s settlement currency.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>defi</category><category>solana</category><category>tether</category><category>usdt</category><category>usdc</category><category>circle</category><category>north-korea</category><category>hacks</category><category>stablecoins</category></item><item><title>A Fake Ledger App Ran on Apple&apos;s App Store for 2 Weeks and Drained $9.5 Million</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/fake-ledger-apple-app-store-9-million-theft/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/fake-ledger-apple-app-store-9-million-theft/</guid><description>A fraudulent Ledger Live app slipped through Apple&apos;s review process, stayed live for roughly two weeks, and drained $9.5 million from 50+ victims before ZachXBT blew the whistle.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>security</category><category>hack</category><category>apple</category><category>ledger</category><category>wallet</category><category>zachxbt</category></item><item><title>3.4 Million OneCoin Victims Get to Split $40M on $4 Billion Stolen — That&apos;s One Cent on the Dollar</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/onecoin-doj-40m-victims-cryptoqueen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/onecoin-doj-40m-victims-cryptoqueen/</guid><description>The DOJ just opened compensation claims for the biggest crypto fraud in history. The math is brutal: $40 million recovered, $4 billion stolen, Cryptoqueen still on the run.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>fraud</category><category>enforcement</category><category>onecoin</category></item><item><title>Hacker Minted 1 Billion Polkadot Tokens on Ethereum — and Only Got Away With $237K</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/hyperbridge-1-billion-dot-minted-237k-stolen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/hyperbridge-1-billion-dot-minted-237k-stolen/</guid><description>A forged cross-chain proof let an attacker mint 1,000,000,000 fake DOT tokens on Ethereum in a single transaction. Thin liquidity saved Polkadot. Twelve days earlier, Hyperbridge had posted an April Fools&apos; joke about exactly this.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>defi</category><category>hacks</category><category>polkadot</category><category>bridges</category><category>security</category></item><item><title>Congress Wants to Let You Spend Stablecoins Tax-Free — But Bitcoin Still Gets Taxed Every Time You Buy a Coffee</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/parity-act-bitcoin-tax-stablecoin-exemption/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/parity-act-bitcoin-tax-stablecoin-exemption/</guid><description>The PARITY Act gives stablecoins a federal de minimis tax exemption while explicitly leaving Bitcoin behind. Bitcoin Policy Institute calls it a bill that &apos;picks winners and losers.&apos; Coinbase earned $1.35B in stablecoin revenue last year — make of that what you will.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>regulation</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>tax</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>policy</category></item><item><title>Whales Are Spending $7M to Have Dinner with Trump, Senators Call It a Corruption Crisis — and He Might Not Even Show Up</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-memecoin-maralago-gala-whale-senate/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/trump-memecoin-maralago-gala-whale-senate/</guid><description>The TRUMP token snapshot deadline is today. Whales have pumped $2.7M in 48 hours to buy their way into a presidential dinner. The Senate wants answers. And buried in the fine print: Trump &apos;may not be able to attend.&apos;</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>trump</category><category>meme-coins</category><category>regulation</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>whale-watch</category><category>defi</category></item><item><title>Coinbase Blocked This Crypto Bill Twice. Now It&apos;s Backing It — and the Senate Has 3 Weeks to Act.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/clarity-act-senate-coinbase-flip-3-week-window/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/clarity-act-senate-coinbase-flip-3-week-window/</guid><description>Brian Armstrong killed the CLARITY Act in January, then blocked it again in February. Today the Senate returned from Easter recess, and Armstrong is suddenly its biggest cheerleader. Here&apos;s what changed, and why the next 3 weeks decide whether US crypto law happens in 2026 or not at all.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>regulation</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>clarity-act</category><category>coinbase</category><category>market-structure</category><category>senate</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>Crypto Just Beat Wall Street to SpaceX — Retail Gets Pre-IPO Access Before the Street Does</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitget-spacex-prespax-tokenized-ipo-crypto/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitget-spacex-prespax-tokenized-ipo-crypto/</guid><description>SpaceX filed for the largest IPO in history at a $1.75 trillion valuation. Bitget just launched preSPAX, a tokenized synthetic token giving retail crypto investors exposure before the NYSE opens its doors.</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>rwa</category><category>defi</category><category>exchanges</category><category>regulation</category><category>ipo</category></item><item><title>The Banks That Print HK Cash Just Got Licensed to Print Digital Dollars Too</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/hsbc-stanchart-hong-kong-stablecoin-license/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/hsbc-stanchart-hong-kong-stablecoin-license/</guid><description>Hong Kong granted its first two stablecoin licenses to HSBC and a Standard Chartered–Animoca joint venture — picking just 2 from 36 applicants. The era of bank-issued stablecoins is here.</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>stablecoins</category><category>regulation</category><category>hong-kong</category><category>hsbc</category><category>standard-chartered</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>The DEX Doing $200B/Month Just Filed for a Wall Street ETF — And Bloomberg Says Launch Is Imminent</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitwise-bhyp-hyperliquid-etf-imminent/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitwise-bhyp-hyperliquid-etf-imminent/</guid><description>Bitwise dropped the Form 8-A for its Hyperliquid ETF (ticker: BHYP) today. Bloomberg&apos;s Eric Balchunas says that&apos;s the last filing before launch. HYPE is up 103% from January lows. Cantor Fitzgerald just called $200B market cap. Here&apos;s what it means.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>etf</category><category>hyperliquid</category><category>hype</category><category>defi</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>crypto-jobs</category></item><item><title>Trump&apos;s DeFi Project Borrowed $75M From Its Own CTO&apos;s Protocol — And the Token Is Collapsing</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/wlfi-trump-75m-insider-loan-dolomite-scandal/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/wlfi-trump-75m-insider-loan-dolomite-scandal/</guid><description>World Liberty Financial used nearly 5 billion WLFI tokens as collateral to borrow $75M from Dolomite, a platform co-founded by WLFI&apos;s own CTO. The token is now at an all-time low, down 82% from peak.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>defi</category><category>regulation</category><category>trump</category><category>wlfi</category><category>insider-trading</category><category>stablecoins</category></item><item><title>Japan Just Made Bitcoin Illegal to Trade on Inside Information — And 104 Other Tokens Too</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/japan-crypto-financial-instruments-fiea/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/japan-crypto-financial-instruments-fiea/</guid><description>Japan&apos;s cabinet approved a landmark bill reclassifying crypto as financial instruments under the FIEA, bringing insider trading bans, mandatory disclosures, and 10-year prison sentences to the world&apos;s third-largest economy.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>regulation</category><category>japan</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>compliance</category><category>fiea</category></item><item><title>Morgan Stanley Just Launched a Bitcoin ETF That Costs Half as Much as BlackRock&apos;s</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/morgan-stanley-msbt-bitcoin-etf-blackrock/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/morgan-stanley-msbt-bitcoin-etf-blackrock/</guid><description>MSBT debuted on NYSE Arca at 0.14% — nearly half BlackRock&apos;s IBIT fee — making Wall Street&apos;s biggest wealth manager the most aggressive new entrant in the Bitcoin ETF war.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>etf</category><category>morgan-stanley</category><category>wall-street</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>Every Stablecoin Company Just Got Turned Into a Bank — The U.S. Treasury Made It Official</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/genius-act-stablecoin-aml-compliance-jobs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/genius-act-stablecoin-aml-compliance-jobs/</guid><description>Treasury and FinCEN dropped a joint proposed rule under the GENIUS Act that forces stablecoin issuers to implement full AML programs, freeze bad transactions, and hire compliance officers — by January 2027.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>regulation</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>compliance</category><category>genius-act</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>Someone Deliberately Blew Up $3M on Fartcoin to Steal $1.5M From Hyperliquid</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/hyperliquid-fartcoin-suicide-liquidation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/hyperliquid-fartcoin-suicide-liquidation/</guid><description>A whale built a $15M leveraged Fartcoin position across four wallets, then intentionally imploded it — weaponizing Hyperliquid&apos;s auto-deleveraging system to dump losses onto the exchange&apos;s own vault.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>hyperliquid</category><category>defi</category><category>exploit</category><category>memecoin</category><category>on-chain-drama</category></item><item><title>One Company Now Owns 4% of All Ethereum — And It&apos;s Listing on the NYSE Tomorrow</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitmine-4-percent-ethereum-supply-nyse-uplisting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitmine-4-percent-ethereum-supply-nyse-uplisting/</guid><description>Bitmine Immersion Technologies quietly accumulated 4.8 million ETH, staked 3.3 million of it, and is now uplisting to the NYSE. The MicroStrategy of Ethereum just went mainstream.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>ethereum</category><category>institutional</category><category>staking</category><category>treasury</category><category>corporate-crypto</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>Peace Deal Nukes $427M in Bitcoin Short Bets in 8 Hours</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-iran-ceasefire-short-squeeze-427m/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/bitcoin-iran-ceasefire-short-squeeze-427m/</guid><description>A two-week US-Iran ceasefire sent Bitcoin past $72,700 and liquidated nearly half a billion dollars in bearish positions — one of the fastest short squeezes of 2026.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>markets</category><category>liquidations</category><category>geopolitics</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>Aave Just Lost Its Third Key Team in 60 Days — and Nobody Wants to Manage $12B in Risk</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/aave-chaos-labs-exit-defi-governance-meltdown/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/aave-chaos-labs-exit-defi-governance-meltdown/</guid><description>Chaos Labs is walking away from Aave after 3 years and &apos;zero material bad debt.&apos; They&apos;re the third core contributor to quit since March. No one knows who&apos;s watching the money.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>defi</category><category>aave</category><category>governance</category><category>risk-management</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>The SEC Just Blinked: A $75M Token Fundraising Safe Harbor Is Now One Step Away</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/sec-reg-crypto-safe-harbor-token-fundraising/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/sec-reg-crypto-safe-harbor-token-fundraising/</guid><description>SEC Chair Atkins confirms &apos;Reg Crypto&apos; has cleared internal review and is at the White House — the first U.S. crypto-specific fundraising framework ever, with a $5M startup exemption and $75M/year cap.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>regulation</category><category>sec</category><category>fundraising</category><category>token-launch</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>policy</category></item><item><title>Strategy Just Lost $14.5 Billion on Paper — and Bought $330M More Bitcoin Anyway</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/strategy-microstrategy-14-billion-bitcoin-loss-q1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/strategy-microstrategy-14-billion-bitcoin-loss-q1/</guid><description>MicroStrategy&apos;s rebranded successor posted the largest Q1 Bitcoin loss since 2018, then spent another $330 million on BTC the following week. This is what conviction looks like — or what it costs.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>strategy</category><category>microstrategy</category><category>institutional</category><category>markets</category><category>hiring</category></item><item><title>Stablecoins Are Broken in a Way Nobody Admits — a16z Just Paid $10M to Fix It</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/better-money-company-a16z-stablecoin-clearinghouse/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/better-money-company-a16z-stablecoin-clearinghouse/</guid><description>You can&apos;t swap USDT for USDC at face value without slippage. A former a16z partner just raised $10M to build the clearinghouse that makes stablecoins actually fungible — and Stripe, MetaMask, and Phantom are already signed up.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>a16z</category><category>defi</category><category>infrastructure</category><category>hiring</category><category>fundraising</category></item><item><title>Australia Just Regulated Crypto — Overnight, It Created an Entire New Industry</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/australia-crypto-licensing-law-jobs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/australia-crypto-licensing-law-jobs/</guid><description>Australia&apos;s parliament passed the Digital Assets Framework Bill, the country&apos;s first comprehensive crypto licensing law. Exchanges and custodians must now get licensed like brokers. Here&apos;s what it means for jobs.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>crypto-jobs</category><category>compliance</category><category>australia</category><category>defi</category></item><item><title>North Korea Spent Six Months Pretending to Be a Trading Firm to Steal $270M From Drift</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/drift-north-korea-six-month-infiltration/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/drift-north-korea-six-month-infiltration/</guid><description>Drift Protocol confirmed today that the April 1 exploit wasn&apos;t opportunistic — DPRK-linked hackers spent six months attending crypto conferences, building real relationships, and depositing real money before draining $270M.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>defi</category><category>security</category><category>north-korea</category><category>dprk</category><category>solana</category><category>hacks</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>$12 Trillion Charles Schwab Is About to Let Your Grandma Buy Bitcoin Directly</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/charles-schwab-crypto-spot-bitcoin-ethereum/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/charles-schwab-crypto-spot-bitcoin-ethereum/</guid><description>Charles Schwab — the brokerage that manages $12 trillion in client assets — just announced direct spot Bitcoin and Ethereum trading. This isn&apos;t Fidelity or a crypto-native firm. This is the brokerage where America&apos;s retirees keep their 401(k)s.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>institutional</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>ethereum</category><category>hiring</category><category>tradfi</category></item><item><title>Circle Watched $232M in Stolen USDC Bridge Out for 6 Hours — and Did Nothing</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/circle-usdc-freeze-zachxbt-drift-hack/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/circle-usdc-freeze-zachxbt-drift-hack/</guid><description>ZachXBT just published a damning thread showing Circle had the power to freeze $232M in stolen Drift Protocol funds — during business hours, over 6 hours — and chose not to. It&apos;s part of a pattern spanning $420M across 15 cases since 2022.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>defi</category><category>security</category><category>regulation</category><category>stablecoins</category><category>solana</category></item><item><title>Crypto Job Postings Crashed 80% Since Liberation Day — And It&apos;s Not Just the Market</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/liberation-day-tariffs-crypto-jobs-crash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/liberation-day-tariffs-crypto-jobs-crash/</guid><description>One year after Trump&apos;s Liberation Day tariffs shook global markets, Bitcoin is down 20%+ from its peak and crypto job postings have collapsed 80% from a year ago. Here&apos;s what&apos;s really happening to crypto careers right now.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>crypto-jobs</category><category>market-analysis</category><category>layoffs</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>tariffs</category></item><item><title>FTX Is Finally, Officially Dead — The CFTC Just Closed Its Last Case</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/cftc-ftx-nishad-singh-settlement/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/cftc-ftx-nishad-singh-settlement/</guid><description>The CFTC settled with Nishad Singh — FTX&apos;s ex-engineering chief who built the backdoor that let Alameda silently drain billions in customer funds. The case is closed. The industry can stop looking over its shoulder. Almost.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>enforcement</category><category>ftx</category><category>regulation</category><category>cftc</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>The US Government Just Handed Coinbase a Federal Banking License (Sort Of)</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/coinbase-occ-national-trust-charter/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/coinbase-occ-national-trust-charter/</guid><description>Coinbase received conditional OCC approval for a national trust charter — making America&apos;s biggest crypto exchange a federally regulated custodian. This is the regulatory milestone the industry has chased for a decade.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>regulation</category><category>coinbase</category><category>institutional</category><category>stablecoin</category><category>hiring</category></item><item><title>A $1.5 Trillion Asset Manager Just Paid for a Crypto Acquisition Using Crypto Tokens</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/franklin-templeton-franklin-crypto-benji-acquisition/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/franklin-templeton-franklin-crypto-benji-acquisition/</guid><description>Franklin Templeton launched &apos;Franklin Crypto&apos; and acquired 250 Digital — paying part of the deal in BENJI tokens from its own tokenized money fund. TradFi just ate its own dogfood.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>institutional</category><category>tradfi</category><category>tokenization</category><category>hiring</category><category>defi</category></item><item><title>The Man Who Called Bitcoin a Fraud Just Said JPMorgan Might Build a Prediction Market</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/jpmorgan-dimon-prediction-markets-crypto/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/jpmorgan-dimon-prediction-markets-crypto/</guid><description>Jamie Dimon — Wall Street&apos;s most famous crypto sceptic — has signalled JPMorgan could enter prediction markets. Goldman Sachs is already meeting with Polymarket. The last wall between TradFi and on-chain betting is crumbling.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>tradfi</category><category>prediction-markets</category><category>jpmorgan</category><category>institutional</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>SpaceX Just Filed for the Largest IPO in History. It&apos;s Bringing 8,285 Bitcoin With It.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/spacex-ipo-bitcoin-treasury-crypto-jobs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/spacex-ipo-bitcoin-treasury-crypto-jobs/</guid><description>SpaceX has confidentially filed for a $1.75 trillion IPO — potentially the biggest public offering ever. Its Bitcoin treasury is about to go fully transparent, and the ripple effects for crypto hiring are massive.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>spacex</category><category>bitcoin</category><category>ipo</category><category>elon-musk</category><category>crypto-treasury</category><category>breaking-news</category><category>hiring</category></item><item><title>The FBI Created a Fake Cryptocurrency to Catch Market Manipulators. It Worked. 10 Execs Just Got Charged.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/fbi-created-fake-crypto-doj-wash-trading-sting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/fbi-created-fake-crypto-doj-wash-trading-sting/</guid><description>The DOJ just unsealed charges against 10 crypto executives in a massive wash trading sting called Operation Token Mirrors. The FBI built its own Ethereum token — NexFundAI — to bait them. Here&apos;s the full breakdown and what it means for the industry.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>doj</category><category>fbi</category><category>crypto</category><category>wash-trading</category><category>market-manipulation</category><category>regulation</category><category>nexfundai</category><category>gotbit</category><category>enforcement</category><category>breaking-news</category></item><item><title>Oracle Just Fired 30,000 People via 6 AM Email to Build AI Data Centers. Here&apos;s Where Those Engineers Should Actually Go.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/oracle-layoffs-crypto-careers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/oracle-layoffs-crypto-careers/</guid><description>Oracle cut 18% of its workforce overnight to fund a $156B AI buildout. If you&apos;re one of the 30,000, crypto infrastructure needs your exact skill set.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>oracle</category><category>layoffs</category><category>jobs</category><category>crypto-careers</category><category>infrastructure</category><category>ai</category><category>hiring</category><category>web3</category></item><item><title>Solana&apos;s Biggest Hack Since Wormhole: $270M Drained From Drift Protocol in Minutes</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/drift-protocol-solana-exploit-270m/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/drift-protocol-solana-exploit-270m/</guid><description>Drift Protocol, Solana&apos;s leading perpetuals DEX, was drained of up to $285M in a still-unconfirmed exploit on April 1 — and the attacker is still moving funds right now.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>breaking-news</category><category>defi</category><category>security</category><category>solana</category><category>exploit</category><category>hacks</category><category>jobs</category></item><item><title>Google Says Quantum Computers Could Crack Bitcoin in 9 Minutes. The Industry Needs Post-Quantum Engineers Yesterday.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/google-quantum-bitcoin-crypto-jobs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/google-quantum-bitcoin-crypto-jobs/</guid><description>Google says breaking Bitcoin may need 20x fewer qubits than thought. 6.9M BTC already exposed. The race to hire post-quantum crypto engineers starts now.</description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>quantum-computing</category><category>google</category><category>security</category><category>cryptography</category><category>jobs</category><category>post-quantum</category><category>hiring</category></item><item><title>Anthropic Just Leaked Claude Code&apos;s Entire Source Code. Every Crypto Dev Using AI Should Be Paying Attention.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/claude-code-source-leak-crypto-ai-security/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/claude-code-source-leak-crypto-ai-security/</guid><description>512K lines of TypeScript and 44 feature flags exposed via npm. If your crypto team uses AI coding tools, your threat model just changed.</description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>security</category><category>ai</category><category>claude-code</category><category>npm</category><category>crypto</category><category>developer-tools</category><category>jobs</category><category>supply-chain</category></item><item><title>North Korea Just Backdoored npm&apos;s Most Popular HTTP Library. Crypto Was the Target.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/axios-supply-chain-attack-crypto-security-jobs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/axios-supply-chain-attack-crypto-security-jobs/</guid><description>The Axios supply chain attack dropped a crypto-wallet-stealing RAT on 100M weekly installs. What happened, why AI missed it, and the security roles crypto needs now.</description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>security</category><category>supply-chain</category><category>npm</category><category>axios</category><category>crypto</category><category>north-korea</category><category>jobs</category><category>ai</category><category>vulnerabilities</category></item><item><title>The 20 Millionth Bitcoin Was Just Mined. Here&apos;s Who Gets Paid to Secure the Last Million.</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/20-million-bitcoin-mined-jobs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/20-million-bitcoin-mined-jobs/</guid><description>Only 1 million BTC remain after the 20 millionth was mined. The engineers building infrastructure around that scarcity are crypto&apos;s most in-demand hires.</description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>bitcoin</category><category>mining</category><category>jobs</category><category>infrastructure</category><category>layer2</category><category>custody</category><category>crypto-careers</category></item><item><title>DeFi vs CeFi: Which Career Path Pays More in 2026?</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/defi-vs-cefi-career-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/defi-vs-cefi-career-2026/</guid><description>Choosing between DeFi and CeFi for your crypto career? We break down the real differences in compensation, culture, and long-term prospects.</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>defi</category><category>cefi</category><category>crypto jobs</category><category>web3 developer</category><category>blockchain career</category><category>crypto salary</category><category>crypto hiring</category></item><item><title>Solidity vs Rust: Which Should You Learn for a Crypto Career in 2026?</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/solidity-vs-rust-crypto-career-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/solidity-vs-rust-crypto-career-2026/</guid><description>Solidity or Rust — which language should you invest in if you want a high-paying crypto job in 2026? We break down the real trade-offs.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>solidity</category><category>rust</category><category>crypto jobs</category><category>web3 developer</category><category>smart contracts</category><category>blockchain developer</category><category>learn to code</category></item><item><title>How to Get a Crypto Job in 2026 (The Honest Guide)</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/how-to-get-a-crypto-job-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/how-to-get-a-crypto-job-2026/</guid><description>A practical guide to landing a Web3 or crypto job in 2026 — what skills companies are actually hiring for, how to stand out, and where to apply.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>crypto jobs</category><category>web3 jobs</category><category>solidity</category><category>blockchain developer</category><category>how to get hired</category><category>DeFi</category></item><item><title>What Crypto Companies Are Actually Hiring For in the AI Era</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/ai-jobs-next-five-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/ai-jobs-next-five-years/</guid><description>AI is reshaping the crypto job market fast. Here&apos;s what&apos;s in demand, what&apos;s compressing, and what skills get you hired at a Web3 company in 2026.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>jobs</category><category>crypto</category><category>web3</category><category>hiring</category></item><item><title>cryptogrind is back — now a job board for crypto companies</title><link>https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/welcome-to-cryptogrind/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.cryptogrind.com/blog/welcome-to-cryptogrind/</guid><description>cryptogrind.com has relaunched as a dedicated job board connecting crypto and Web3 companies with the talent they need. Here&apos;s what changed and what&apos;s coming.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>cryptogrind</category><category>crypto</category><category>web3</category><category>jobs</category><category>announcement</category></item></channel></rss>