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Ether and solana led crypto higher on Friday as a squeeze on bearish traders pushed bitcoin toward $62,000, capping the market's first genuinely strong week since mid June.
The head of crypto exchange Binance's Europe division said the success of the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation should be measured by how many firms it brings into the regulatory system, not si…
Asset manager Bitwise said the sharp decline in Strategy’s (MSTR) perpetual preferred stock, STRC, is a hallmark of a maturing crypto cycle rather than evidence of a looming crisis at the company.
The company said Thursday the tokenized securities are issued on Ethereum through Oasis Pro TA, an SEC-registered transfer agent Ondo acquired last year. Financial infrastructure provider Broadridge (BR) will handle pro…
Securitize (SECZ), a tokenization specialist backed by BlackRock and ARK Invest, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, and simultaneously brought its own shares to blockchain investors.
Digital broker eToro (ETOR) is doubling down on decentralized finance (DeFi) as online brokerages race to bring blockchain-based trading to mainstream investors.
SBI Crypto has announced it will shut down its mining pool on July 31, ending a service tied to one of Japan’s largest financial groups and giving miners less than a month to redirect their hashrate.
The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added 134 crypto wallet addresses to its ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K) sanctions entry on Wednesday, including 131 Tron addresses and 3 Monero addresses.
Bitcoin climbed above $61,000 on Thursday, up about 4.1% over 24 hours, per CoinDesk data, its firmest footing so far this week after a sell-off sent the asset to as low as $58,200 earlier.
Wall Street bank JPMorgan (JPM) said Strategy's (MSTR) decision to allow selective bitcoin
K Wave Media, a Nasdaq-listed Korean media company, has filed to raise up to $250 million from investors, according to a June 30 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, weeks after abandoning a bitcoin …
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OpenAI has explored the idea of granting the U.S. government a 5% equity stake as part of efforts to strengthen ties with the Trump administration and broaden public participation in the benefits of artificial intellige…
It’s been six years since Europe’s Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) was first mooted and three years since it was enacted. A lot has changed in the meantime, not the least the growing interest from businesses and individ…
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According to analysis of blockchain data by Glassnode, positive undercurrents are forming beneath the surface, contradicting the bearish sentiment following June's 20% drop.
Tether has frozen USDT held in all 131 TRON wallets linked to ISIS-K after the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added 134 cryptocurrency wallet addresses to its sanctions list. According to Chaina…
Metaplanet (3350) announced the purchase of an additional 2,823 BTC ($170.7 million), bringing its total treasury to 43,000 BTC ($2.6 billion).
Ethereum layer-2 scaling network Taiko’s cross-chain bridge is back online, just 10 days after the June 22 hack.
Programmable blockchain Solana has introduced a formal onchain governance system, its GitHub repository shows, giving its validators and token holders a direct, recorded vote on the network’s future for the first time.
Bitcoin traded above $60,700 on Thursday after a quick overnight reversal after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said inflation risks had eased, giving a market that spent most of June grinding lower its first clear li…
FBI Director Kash Patel failed to timely disclose a six-figure purchase of stock in Strategy (MSTR), the world's largest publicly-listed bitcoin holder, according to a report by nonpartisan news outlet NOTUS.
Robinhood (HOOD) officially launched the public mainnet for Robinhood Chain, marking the company's biggest step yet into onchain financial infrastructure as it looks to expand beyond brokerage services and into decentra…
The European Union's crypto market entered a new era on Wednesday as its Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation came into full effect, meaning crypto firms serving customers across the 27-nation bloc are required to…