Commentary Bitcoin was born with an ambitious goal: rendering fiat currencies such as the U.S. dollar obsolete. Although bitcoin has yet to succeed—mostly due to transaction costs and price volatility—visionaries have built on bitcoin’s underlying technology, the blockchain, to take on another target: Wall Street. Decentralized finance (DeFi), the ecosystem of cryptocurrencies, exchanges, and shadow banks, is…

CAIRO—A ship that blocked the Suez Canal for almost a week in March is being held in the waterway as canal authorities pursue a $916 million compensation claim against the ship’s Japanese owner, one of the vessel’s insurers and canal sources said on Tuesday. The Ever Given container ship, owned by Shoei Kisen, has been…

The U.S. Capitol Police officer who shot dead an Air Force veteran during the tumultuous events on Jan. 6 will not be charged, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division decided jointly not to pursue charges against the officer. The…