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December 15, 2025 – George Town, British Virgin Islands Aster, an on-chain trading platform focused on performance and privacy and supported by YZi Labs, has announced the launch of Shield Mode. This new feature, integrated into Aster Perpetual, introduces a protected trading option designed to offer high-leverage trading – up to 1,001x – within a more secure and flexible on-chain environment...
December 15, 2025 – Tampa, Florida The Geode Foundation – a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to fostering economic opportunity and community empowerment through blockchain innovation – today proudly announces the primary exchange listing of its native cryptocurrency, GEODE, on BitMart.com. This milestone marks GEODE’s trading debut, opening the doors for broader adoption and liquidity...
December 15, 2025 – Singapore, Singapore The institutional-grade liquidity solution enables accelerated ETH redemptions for competitive on-chain and institutional yields. mETH Protocol, the top 10 ETH liquid restaking provider with a peak TVL (total value locked) of $2.19 billion, today announced a major liquidity upgrade that utilizes Aave’s ETH market to support more efficient redemption...
A US postal worker has admitted to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars by cashing people’s checks in the mail. The U.S. Department of Justice says 35-year-old Kierra Blount has been handed a 30-month prison sentence for stealing checks and identities during her time as an employee of the Post Office, funneling the money into a fraudulent bank account. Court documents reveal Blount targeted...
Standard Chartered and Coinbase just announced an expanded partnership to develop digital asset services for institutional clients worldwide. The collaboration focuses on trading, prime services, custody, staking and lending solutions. The move combines Standard Chartered’s global banking expertise and risk management with Coinbase’s leading institutional platform to offer secure, compliant...
A former employee at a US lender will spend more than two years behind bars for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from people’s accounts. The Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington says Tacoma resident Aneicia Ford worked with co-conspirators to steal $345,014 from accounts at a credit union. According to court documents, Ford was employed at the credit union between May...
December 14th, 2025 – Willemstad, Curaçao class=”ql-align-justify”>Whale.io has officially launched the WHALE NFT collection on Solana, introducing the next phase of the platform’s native token rollout and bringing the community one step closer to the upcoming Token Generation Event (TGE). The WHALE NFTs – presented as fully tradable digital cards – represent a new value layer within the...
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has conditionally approved national trust bank charters for five firms focused on digital assets. The move opens the door for the companies to operate as national trust banks, joining about 60 others under OCC supervision. The approved firms include two new charters: First National Digital Currency Bank and Ripple National Trust Bank. Three...
A newly disclosed data breach at a US-based healthcare firm has triggered a warning for 87,565 Americans. According to a filing with the Maine Attorney General’s office, Healthcare Interactive, also known as HCIactive, says hackers gained unauthorized access to sensitive files on its systems over the summer. The breach potentially compromised names, contact details, dates of birth, Social...
A US bank employee is being banned from working in the financial industry after he allegedly forged customer signatures to steal tens of thousands of dollars. According to the Board of Governors of The Federal Reserve System, Julio Gonzalez, a former employee of Synovus Bank, has been barred from the financial industry for misappropriating $38,000 from customer accounts. Authorities say that...