Diego Whitfield
Diego Whitfield covers business for Doctorcrypto, with a focus on breaking news and the day’s biggest stories.
Kalshi Ordered to Block Washington Bets Days After CFTC Backed It
Prediction market platform Kalshi has been ordered by a King County judge to halt sports, election, and political wagering in Washington state by August 19, dealing a setback to…
Live updates: Bitcoin slips back to $63,000; MSCI threatens to exclude Strategy from indices
Bitcoin retreated to around $63,000 as climbing oil prices and rising bond yields pressured risk assets, while index provider MSCI signaled it could remove Strategy from its…
Live updates: Bitcoin slips below $63,000; MSCI threatens to exclude Strategy from indices
Bitcoin dropped below the $63,000 mark as rising oil prices and climbing bond yields pressured risk assets, while index provider MSCI signaled it may remove Strategy from its…
Live updates: Bitcoin slips below $63,000 as oil, yields climb
Bitcoin dropped below the $63,000 mark on Thursday as a fresh climb in oil prices and rising bond yields pressured risk assets across financial markets. Bitcoin Retreats Amid…
Crypto payments barely register among euro area merchants, ECB finds
Cryptocurrency remains a virtual nonfactor for merchants across the euro area, according to a new survey from the European Central Bank that found digital assets are accepted by a…
SEC cancels key crypto regulatory meeting
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has scrapped a scheduled meeting on proposed rules for cryptocurrency offerings, a move that follows the Senate's departure for recess…
Cluster of headwinds weigh on bitcoin. XRP teeters near $1
Bitcoin and the broader cryptocurrency market are under pressure this week as a combination of regulatory uncertainty, weak exchangetraded fund flows and lackluster support from…
Bitcoin holders Strategy and Metaplanet face stock-index exclusion under MSCI’s new proposal
MSCI is weighing a rule change that could push Bitcoinheavy corporate treasuries like Strategy and Metaplanet out of its widely tracked equity indexes, a move that would ripple…
Neutrl pauses NUSD redemptions over undisclosed reserve issue
Neutrl, the protocol behind the NUSD synthetic dollar, has temporarily halted redemptions of its token after flagging an undisclosed problem with its reserves, raising fresh…
Figure reports $4.3B in loan marketplace volume as profit nearly triples
Figure Technology Solutions reported $4.3 billion in loan marketplace volume for the second quarter, with profits climbing sharply as the blockchainbased lending platform…
U.S. SEC to again delay 'innovation exemption' for tokenization amid Wall Street, White House concerns
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is poised to once again postpone its muchanticipated "innovation exemption" for tokenization, following pushback from Wall Street firms…
SEC cancels long-awaited proposal of Reg Crypto, postponing meeting without new date
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has abruptly called off a meeting where it was expected to unveil its first comprehensive rulebook for the cryptocurrency industry,…
Solana Can Be the 'Everything Chain' as Crypto Apps Go Mainstream: 6th Man Ventures Co-Founder
Solana has the technical foundations to become crypto's "everything chain" as blockchain applications move toward mainstream adoption, according to Mike Dudas, cofounder of 6th…
City of Baltimore goes after prediction markets for sports betting
The city of Baltimore has launched a legal offensive against prediction market platforms, accusing them of running illegal sports betting operations disguised as event contracts.…
Tether completes first full financial audit, receives clean KPMG opinion
Tether has completed its firstever full financial audit, with accounting giant KPMG delivering a clean opinion on the stablecoin issuer's 2025 financial statements and confirming…
Anthropic Is Quietly Watermarking Every Claude AI Output. Builders Are Already Trying to Break It
Anthropic has begun embedding an invisible, machinereadable watermark into the text produced by its latest Claude models, and the company has offered little public explanation…
Delio CEO sentenced to 15 years in prison on crypto fraud in South Korea
South Korea has handed down a lengthy prison sentence to the head of crypto lending platform Delio, marking one of the most significant fraud rulings tied to the country's digital…
Tether Claims 'Largest Inaugural Financial Audit' as KPMG Signs Off on 2025 Statements
Tether announced that KPMG has delivered a clean opinion on its 2025 financial statements, marking what the stablecoin issuer described as its first fullscale financial audit…
Tether says it completed long-promised 'Big Four' audit of finances behind $180 billion USDT stablecoin
Tether, the company behind the world's largest stablecoin, says it has finally completed a full financial audit conducted by a major accounting firm — a milestone the company has…
White House Lets Private Firms Hack Cybercriminals—At Their Own Legal Risk
President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Tuesday authorizing vetted U.S. companies to conduct offensive cyber operations against foreign criminal networks, opening the door to…
- OCC approves Trump family crypto company for trust charter
- Prediction Markets Give the Fed 74% Odds of Standing Pat in September
- Catapult Draws KuCoin Ventures Backing as Fundraising Round Continues
- Treasury Proposes Rules Defining Who Can Legally Sell Stablecoins in US
- OpenAI’s Answer to Rogue Agents and Hacks Is More AI, Not Less
