British cryptographer Adam Back denies NYT report that he is Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto

Back, a longtime researcher and pioneer in cryptography, denies the allegation that he is the secretive creator of Bitcoin.

Final 3 days to save up to $500 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass

Save up to $500 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass until April 10, 11:59 p.m. PT. Secure your spot at the center of the tech ecosystem. Register here.

4 days left to save close to $500 on TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 passes

4 days left to save up to $482 on your TechCrunch disrupt 2026 ticket. These low rates will disappear on April 10 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register here.

Brickken secures €3M to expand tokenisation infrastructure

Barcelona-basedBrickken, a provider of tokenisation infrastructure for financial institutions,has raised €3 million in a pre-Series A funding round. The round includedstrategic investors from across E…

Belgium crypto startup Keyrock hits unicorn status, says valuation quadrupled

European crypto investment firm Keyrock has hit unicorn status, following a new funding round, with its valuation quadrupling from its previous round, it said today.The Belgium-based startup, founded …

David Sacks is no longer the White House AI and Crypto Czar
David Sacks is no longer the White House AI and Crypto Czar

David Sacks, the venture capitalist and tech billionaire who’d become Silicon Valley’s primary advocate inside the White House and a key architect of its aggressive AI policy initiatives, revealed on Thursday that he was no longer a special government employee – and therefore no longer President Donald Trump’s Special Advisor on AI and Crypto. Sacks’ […]

David Sacks’ big Iran warning gets big time ignored
David Sacks’ big Iran warning gets big time ignored

Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about the politics of technology and the technology of politics – now landing in your inbox on Wednesdays! If someone has forwarded this email to you, and you’re not a Verge subscriber yet, you should sign up right here, and not just because it would […]

Oh, you think the government will regulate Kalshi and Polymarket? Wanna bet?
Oh, you think the government will regulate Kalshi and Polymarket? Wanna bet?

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has a problem: It’s not very good at policing insider trading. And insider trading has become a pressing concern for prediction markets. Even Kalshi’s recently publicized fines for insider trading – levied against a politician and an employee of YouTube influencer MrBeast – were effectively self-policing. The exchange says it’s […]

$3M for DEXTools’ PerpTools from DEXForce and Orderly

PerpTools, an on-chain perpetual futurestrading platform, has been introduced by the creators of DEXTools, an analyticssuite for decentralised exchanges. The platform was developed following a $3milli…

Prediction markets in the news are a dangerous gamble
Prediction markets in the news are a dangerous gamble

Today on Decoder, let’s talk about prediction markets, which continue to insert themselves into the news cycle and the news itself in increasingly weird, unsettling, and potentially illegal ways.  My guest today is Liz Lopatto, senior reporter at The Verge, who owns what we cheerfully call the chaos beat. Liz has been writing a lot […]