El Salvador’s legislature has approved sweeping constitutional changes allowing indefinite presidential reelection, effectively enabling President Nayib Bukele to remain in power beyond his current term. The package of five reforms, passed in a 57–3 vote by Bukele’s New Ideas party and allies,
Strategy’s Michael Saylor has joined the call for the US to create a formal crypto taxonomy to clearly define when a security can be tokenized and what constitutes a digital security or commodity “My opinion is it would be beneficial to the market if they nail down the digital assets taxonomy,” Sa
Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake has proposed “Lean Ethereum,” a plan to make the layer-1 smart contract network quantum-secure, while also simplifying Ethereum’s tech stack, which includes the consensus layer, data layer and execution layer The researcher proposed zero-knowledge
The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent decision to let crypto ETF issuers swap Bitcoin and Ether directly for fund shares represents a structural upgrade, not a retail revolution, analysts say. Bloomberg’s Eric Balchunas called the change “a plumbing fix,” noting it won’t
Blockstream, the developer of Bitcoin’s layer-2 protocol Liquid and led by Bitcoin cypherpunk Adam Back, has launched Simplicity, a new smart contract language designed for Bitcoin. According to a Thursday announcement shared with Cointelegraph, Simplicity smart contracts will be integrated into Li
Opinion by: Michael Egorov, founder of Curve Finance The crypto world shifts its focus every few months, with headlines buzzing about AI, integrations, memecoins and grand Web3 visions While the spotlight moves from trend to trend, a quieter, deeper transformation is taking place beneath the
A US federal appeals court has overturned the conviction of Nathaniel Chastain, a former OpenSea manager found guilty of wire fraud and money laundering for using insider information to trade non-fungible tokens. In a Thursday decision, the Second Circuit ruled that the jury was improperly
Naoris, a cybersecurity firm focused on safeguarding digital assets from quantum computing threats, is offering bounties to anyone who can break the encryption algorithms that secure major blockchain networks. In an announcement shared with Cointelegraph on Thursday, Naoris said it has set a bount
Corporate cryptocurrency treasuries are emerging as a new class of public companies bridging traditional finance and digital assets, signaling rising institutional interest in crypto. Corporate cryptocurrency treasury firms including Strategy, Metaplanet and SharpLink have collectively
The government of the Philippines announced that it will notarize its documents on the Polygon blockchain — on the same day that the network suffered a temporary outage. Maria Francesca Montes- Del Rosario, undersecretary at the Philippine Department of Budget and Management, announced in a