The Ordinals Protocol is generating a circular digital economy where assets are priced, bought and sold via Bitcoin.

China’s president Xi Jinping expands CBDC cooperation at SCO, Hong Kong’s crypto licensing costs surge, and Multichain is hacked yet again.

In a post-mortem report, Arcadia Finance developers said an attacker stole funds by liquidating a vault before it could perform a health check, interrupting the app’s normal flow of operations.

A retail CBDC or “enhanced” digital money would support the singleness of money and settlement finality, Andrew Bailey said, but crypto isn’t money.

Users who shared links to a waitlist for the Arkham service had their email addresses exposed on Twitter due to how the references were encoded.

EIP-7281 will allow token issuers to list official bridges and limit the rate at which they can mint tokens, potentially limiting losses from bridge hacks.

South Africa’s financial regulator has announced that all crypto exchanges in the country must obtain licenses by the end of 2023.

Republican members of Congress stepped up their allegations of Prometheum’s ties to the Chinese Community Party, claiming potentially false or misleading statements to the SEC.

The researchers also determined that “news sentiment” is a much less effective predictor of cryptocurrency returns.

Investors who have dollar-cost-averaged into Bitcoin over time are profitable regardless of when they began implementing the strategy.

“Canada punches above its weight” in blockchain innovation, parliamentarians conclude, but lots more should be done to encourage the industry.

The weakness in the U.S. Dollar Index bodes well for Bitcoin and altcoins in the near term.