Updated August 10, 2026 — 12:31pm,first published 11:00am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA A secretive Melbourne billionaire is taking a former employee to court, claiming they stole almost $500,000 from his highly profitable crypto exchange. The case is the second
When Robinhood agreed to buy WonderFi, the company I founded, some of Canada’s loudest voices argued that federal regulators should block the deal. WonderFi, they said, had become a strategic national asset, the crypto equivalent of one of Canada’s Big Five banks, and that it could not be allowed to fall into American hands. I
Four years after the collapse in the market for NFTs, the crypto world is still reckoning with the fallout. The latest example came on Wednesday when the Department of Justice indicted a man on securities and wire fraud charges for allegedly orchestrating a $10 million cryptocurrency scheme through his crypto startup, Few and Far. The
BitcoinBTC and cryptocurrencies—including major coins ethereum, XRPXRP and solana—have rocketed higher in recent months (with one Wall Street legend warning the U.S. dollar is “finished”). The bitcoin price has topped $43,000 per bitcoin, adding billions to the combined ethereum, XRP, solana and crypto market, and could have now turned a corner, according to a surprise
On Sunday night, John Oliver returned to the “Last Week Tonight” table after his summer hiatus and, naturally, there were plenty to discuss. The HBO host, whose contract expires at the end of 2026, and whose parent company is facing a likely acquisition by Paramount Skydance, putting the left-handed comedian directly in the crosshairs of
World, the online verification startup co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, has raised $52.5 million through a crypto token sale to strategic investors. Participating investors joined a 12-month locked sale of the global token, WLD. Lock-up periods prevent asset buyers from selling or trading their tokens for a set period of time. The one-year lockup demonstrates