Bitcoin has reached block 961,632, triggering the long-awaited mandatory signaling period for BIP-110, a controversial proposal designed to temporarily curb non-financial data from being embedded on the network. The proposal entered the signaling phase at around 19:35 UTC on Saturday, with support from miners seldom… Read More
A crypto lobbying organization has sued the state of Illinois over a last-minute tax provision inserted into the state budget last month. The Digital Chamber alleged that Illinois’ Digital Asset Tax Act violated both the U.S. and state constitutions and is preempted by a federal… Read More
France’s gambling regulator, the Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ), ordered internet service providers to block Polymarket on July 16, treating the prediction market as an illegal gambling site rather than a financial trading venue. The ANJ said earlier restrictions had failed to keep French users… Read More
The HCMC did not immediately respond to a CoinDesk request for comment regarding Binance’s MiCA licensing process. “As the person who led the license application, there’s nothing that I have been made aware of that there was any issue with the application,” Lynch added. “In… Read More
Base, the blockchain backed by crypto exchange Coinbase, has returned online after the network suffered nearly a two-hour outage due to a consensus issue that halted block production. Base posted to X on Thursday after the outage that the network’s blocks “are being produced normally,… Read More
Block’s Cash App has quietly begun rolling out its highly anticipated stablecoin payment feature, a source familiar with the matter told CoinDesk Wednesday. According to this individual, the feature is now active for 25% of Cash App’s nearly 60 million users, with plans to scale… Read More
