Decentralisation

A U.S. court dismissed Michael Lewellen’s lawsuit seeking legal protection for his non-custodial crypto software, Pharos, from money transmitter laws. The judge said Lewellen had not shown a real threat of prosecution, leaving the case open to be filed again in the future.

Tally, a platform used by over 500 DAOs including Uniswap and Arbitrum, is shutting down after six years due to lower demand for governance tools. The decision comes as US regulations have relaxed and the expected growth of decentralized protocols has not materialised.

Vitalik Buterin said Ethereum cannot fix the world’s problems and should not try to act like a political power, even though financial freedom remains important. Instead, he urged the network to focus on building open tools that protect privacy, support coordination and reduce the risk of any single authority gaining total control.

Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov has ignited a fresh debate over online privacy after sharply criticizing Spain’s proposal to restrict social media access for users under 16.

The recently released “Epstein Files” have once again thrown the cryptocurrency world into the spotlight, revealing that Jeffrey Epstein — notorious financier and convicted sex offender — maintained connections with some of Bitcoin’s earliest pioneers.

Meta has been placed under the limelight again after a new privacy lawsuit accuses the tech giant of secretly retaining access to WhatsApp users’ private messages, igniting fresh debate over whether the world’s most popular messaging app is safe for users at all.

The layer-1 blockchain restored operations after a six-hour consensus halt, marking its second major disruption since launch in 2023.

A US crypto market structure bill once positioned as the industry’s long-awaited breakthrough is now facing an unexpected and potentially fatal obstacle — not technological complexity, but ethics.

As protests spread and the rial collapses, satellites, mesh networks, and SMS tools give Iranians a lifeline for Bitcoin — but full blockchain confirmation still depends on reconnecting to the internet.

A statue honoring Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, has been installed outside the New York Stock Exchange, marking one of the clearest symbolic signals yet that digital assets are no longer confined to the fringes of global finance.