Oxbow Lifts Deposit Limits on Privacy Pools, Opens Doors to Institutional Users

Oxbow, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform balancing privacy and compliance, has removed deposit limits on its Privacy Pools tool, enabling unrestricted Ethereum transactions while screening illicit funds. Regulatory-Friendly Privacy: Oxbow’s Tool Now Accepts Large-Scale ETH Deposits Oxbow, a DeFi platform founded in 2023, announced Friday it has removed deposit limits on its Privacy Pools tool, … Read more

Monero’s Stealth Rally: A 45% Gain in 2025 While Ethereum Struggles

Recently, monero ( XMR) captured attention when reports surfaced of hackers converting 3,520 stolen BTC into XMR. Interestingly, the privacy-oriented cryptocurrency has notably outperformed both BTC and ETH so far this year. Over the Last 12 Months, Monero Outperformed Bitcoin and Ether Throughout 2025, monero (XMR) has delivered impressive market returns, steadily increasing in value … Read more

Pavel Durov: ‘Telegram Has Never Disclosed a Single Byte of Private Messages’

Durov stated that, under the jurisdiction of the European Union Digital Services Act, Telegram would only provide IP addresses and phone numbers of suspected criminals. This affirmation came amid widespread criticism of France’s actions against encryption. Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Declares Telegram Never Delivered Message Data to Authorities Telegram, the cryptocurrency messaging protocol standard by … Read more

Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Proposes a ‘Maximally Simple’ L1 Privacy Roadmap

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed a “maximally simple” Layer 1 (L1) privacy roadmap aimed at enhancing user privacy on the Ethereum network with minimal changes to its consensus mechanism. The roadmap outlines four key areas of focus: ensuring privacy for onchain payments, achieving partial anonymization of onchain activity within applications, securing privacy for reads … Read more

Coinbase Aligns With Treasury to Fight Crypto Bad Actors Without Wrecking Privacy

Coinbase CEO backed Treasury’s shift on crypto regulation, urging crime crackdowns that protect innovation, privacy, and free speech without punishing open-source technology. Coinbase to Treasury: Let’s Crush Crypto Crime Without Killing Innovation Brian Armstrong, the CEO of crypto exchange Coinbase (Nasdaq: COIN), has endorsed the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s decision to reverse sanctions on … Read more

Massive Campaign Uses Over 700K Wallets in Cryptojacking Scheme

A cryptojacking campaign that encompasses the use of over 700K cryptocurrency addresses has been unveiled by cybersecurity company Ciberark. Massjacker is a crypto jacking tool, meaning that it hijacks the clipboard of the infected devices, changing the cryptocurrency addresses into others, and making people deposit crypto to addresses different than the ones intended. Ciberark estimated … Read more

Blockchain Week Rome 2025 Returns for Its Sixth Edition as Italy’s Premier Crypto and Blockchain Event

This content is provided by a sponsor. PRESS RELEASE. On May 9-10, 2025, Blockchain Week Rome returns for its sixth edition. BWR25 confirms its position as the largest Italian event dedicated to blockchain and crypto, a key reference point in the Mediterranean, set to welcome over 4,000 participants at the Palazzo dei Congressi, EUR, Rome. … Read more

Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev Walks Free

In a positive turn of events, the court released the 31-year-old developer and placed him under house arrest and electronic monitoring until his trial. Tornado Cash’s Alexey Pertsev Regains Freedom Following Court Decision After languishing in a Dutch jail for nine months, Alexey Pertsev, one of the developers of the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash, was … Read more