BLOCKCHAIN • CRYPTOCURRENCY • NARRATIVE JOURNALISM
Coverage where policy, market structure, and company pressure collide across the crypto stack.
Conflicts is mapped from the WordPress categories that most consistently surface regulatory tension, exchange pressure, and contested narratives.
The planned rollout would place perpetual futures tied to Bitcoin and Ethereum on the country's main derivatives venue, according to reporting on the exchange's plans . Moscow Exchange lists its tradable derivatives products on its own derivatives selection page , where new contracts appear once they go live.
BitMart has set an Aug. 19 deadline for its founder to disclose wallet holdings and submit a repayment plan, a demand that puts customer recovery and the exchange's internal accountability squarely in focus as the platform winds down.
The core claim, as reported, is that Binance provided crypto donation details to Russian authorities tied to a terrorism financing investigation. The information at the center of the report concerns donation-linked transaction data rather than a broad handover of general account records.
Kraken is assembling a vertically integrated financial business through a wave of acquisitions, moving beyond core crypto trading into adjacent services such as tokenized assets and global payments infrastructure.
The incident was reported by Israeli outlets, with the figure of 200,000 affected customers cited in coverage from Calcalist . The reporting frames the breach as a customer-data exposure at the Tel Aviv-based broker.
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget has restricted transactions involving HTX, EXMO, and 14 other entities, a total of 16 platforms, in a move framed as part of a broader sanctions crackdown affecting the exchange sector.
HTX's Ethereum order book has thinned noticeably after Binance blocked a set of transfers tied to sanctions compliance, putting fresh strain on HTX liquidity and raising questions about how easily users can move funds between the two venues.
Crypto payment processor Coinsbuy was drained of roughly $8 million in a security breach that spanned two separate blockchains, according to on-chain monitoring that first flagged the incident. The Coinsbuy hack marks another attack on a centralized crypto platform, though key details remain unconfirmed by the company.
Crypto exchange Bybit has filed a lawsuit over the alleged $1. 5 billion hack of its platform, naming North Korea and secured a preliminary injunction freezing stolen assets, marking one of the sector's most aggressive legal responses to a state-linked attack.
Robinhood has added crypto trading to its UK app, with the rollout enabled through an integration with Bitstamp, the exchange Robinhood acquired to underpin its digital asset infrastructure. The move brings in-app crypto trading to UK users of the platform.
The New York Stock Exchange is developing an on-chain settlement platform for tokenized securities, extending established market infrastructure into blockchain-based post-trade processing rather than general crypto trading.
BitMart is processing roughly 300 ETH in withdrawals per hour as the exchange works through a wind-down of operations, putting user fund access and processing throughput at the center of attention rather than trading volume or price.