Crypto News

Man Who Laundered Billions in Bitcoins Says Bitcoin Fog Was a Help: Bloomberg

Ilya Lichtenstein, one of the crypto industry's most high-stakes criminals, is now helping federal prosecutors in their case against Bitcoin Fog, one of the mixing services he said he'd used to conceal assets.Source link

Russia Hints at Development of CBDC-Based BRICS Bridge Payments System

Russia has proposed the development and implementation of a BRICS-wide payment system that would use central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) to manage trade settlements. The BRICS bridge, as referred to by Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, would address the fragmentation of the current payment system outside the West’s “unfriendly infrastructure.” Russia Hints at Using CBDCSource link

Bitcoin Ordinals Trading Is Surging With Halving Just Two Months Away

The cross-chain marketplace has become traders’ favorite as the controversial Ordinals inscriptions make a comeback.Source link

Bringing Two Worlds Together: Kinetex Announces ZK Light Client For Bitcoin

PRESS RELEASE. Kinetex is excited to introduce BTCX, a Bitcoin ZK light client built with Succinct Labs. Developed using Succinct’s plonky2x framework and deployed seamlessly through its unified proving stack, BTCX enables EVM-compatible networks to verify the Bitcoin state directly without any centralized actors in between. The creation of this solution is the first stepSource link

Why the ENS Battle Over Eth.Link Matters

The critical piece of infrastructure serves as a bridge between Web3 and the wider web and symbol for the limits of decentralization.Source link