Diego Whitfield
Diego Whitfield covers business for Doctorcrypto, with a focus on breaking news and the day’s biggest stories.
Consensys unknowingly outsourced developer work to North Korean
Consensys, the blockchain software firm behind popular tools like MetaMask, has revealed it unknowingly hired a software developer with ties to North Korea, after the worker was…
Crypto Biz: When dollars disappear, stablecoins step in
Bolivia is moving to formally recognize Tether's USDT as its dollar shortage deepens, a sign that stablecoins are increasingly filling the gap where physical greenbacks have grown…
Polymarket traders cut Clarity Act passage odds to record low as Senate delay drags on
Bettors on prediction market Polymarket have slashed the odds of the CLARITY Act becoming law this year to an alltime low, as prolonged negotiations in the Senate over ethics…
Kimi K3 Just Triggered DeepSeek Flashbacks for the Stock Market
The release of a massive new openweight AI model from Chinese startup Moonshot AI rattled equity markets on Friday, dragging down chip stocks and reviving memories of the…
China’s Kimi K3 Is Out—And Beats Claude Fable and GPT 5.6 Sol on Key Benchmarks
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a 2.8trillionparameter opensource model that outperforms leading Western systems including Claude Fable and GPT 5.6 Sol on several key…
Stripe and Swift race to control the next generation of global payments infrastructure
Payments giant Stripe and interbank messaging network Swift are emerging as rival contenders to define the next era of global money movement, according to crypto and blockchain…
Galaxy Puts Its Name on Texas Tech's Stadium in a 15-Year, Crypto-Native Deal
Galaxy Digital has secured naming rights to Texas Tech University's football stadium in a 15year agreement that will rebrand the Red Raiders' home venue as "Galaxy Stadium,"…
OKX Europe lets users convert USDT to MiCA-compliant USDC
OKX has rolled out a new feature for its European users that allows them to voluntarily convert Tether's USDT stablecoin into Circle's USDC, which complies with the region's…
Senator Warren requests 2026 reporting for Trump’s crypto earnings after $1.4B disclosure
Senator Elizabeth Warren is pressing for early disclosure of President Donald Trump's cryptocurrency earnings, requesting that his financial activity from January through July be…
Cardano hands core development to outside teams in decentralization push
Cardano is handing over control of its core software to a group of independent teams, marking one of the most significant structural shifts in the blockchain's history as it seeks…
Inside Robinhood’s high-stakes bet to onboard millions of casual users onto decentralized finance
Robinhood is wagering that its massive base of everyday investors can become the onramp that finally pushes decentralized finance into the mainstream, though early results suggest…
Inside Robinhood’s high-stakes bet to onboard 10 million casual users onto decentralized finance
Robinhood is wagering that its massive retail user base can become the bridge to mainstream decentralized finance, with the trading platform setting an ambitious target of moving…
Bitcoin price sags under $62.5K as Iran strikes add to US stocks pressure
Bitcoin slipped below $62,500 as escalating tensions between the United States and Iran rattled global markets, dragging both cryptocurrencies and equities lower for a second…
HSBC wins Bank of England approval to enter Digital Securities Sandbox
HSBC has secured approval from the Bank of England to bring its digital asset platform, HSBC Orion, into the central bank's Digital Securities Sandbox, marking a significant step…
Japan's SBI Group is building Asia's first cross-border digital asset empire
Japan's SBI Group is moving aggressively to establish itself as the dominant player in Asia's digital asset market, announcing the consolidation of Singaporebased crypto exchange…
SBI acquires Singaporean crypto platform Coinhako after MAS approval
Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings has secured regulatory clearance from the Monetary Authority of Singapore to acquire a majority stake in Coinhako, a Singaporebased…
Bitcoin faces fresh headwinds as China’s Kimi beats Claude, GPT in coding benchmark
China's AI Breakthrough Rattles Markets Bitcoin and the broader cryptocurrency market slipped lower this week as a new artificial intelligence model from China's Moonshot AI…
Dutch court declares crypto platform Knaken bankrupt over missing funds
A Rotterdam court has declared Dutch cryptocurrency platform Knaken bankrupt after determining that the company did not hold enough assets to fully repay its users, citing missing…
Morning Minute: Citadel Securities Invests $400M in Crypto.com
Citadel Securities, the marketmaking giant founded by billionaire Ken Griffin, has committed $400 million to Crypto.com, marking one of the clearest signals yet that traditional…
Stablecoin growth will erode bank deposits, says ECB’s Cipollone
A senior European Central Bank official has warned that the rapid rise of stablecoins could siphon deposits away from traditional banks, adding fresh urgency to Europe's push for…
- OpenAI Models Escaped Locked Test Environment, Hacked Hugging Face to Cheat on Benchmark
- Crypto Clarity Act still at mercy of ethics section as Democrats balk at Trump deal
- Catapult Draws KuCoin Ventures Backing as Fundraising Round Continues
- Movement Labs files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after months of MOVE token turmoil
- Ether breaks the $1.9K resistance; is $2.1K the next target for ETH bulls?
