Digital assets, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and currency news.
Key Highlights HIVE Digital Technologies increased its treasury to 269 BTC, marking a 41.6% rise during the quarter ending September 30. The company mined 1,070 BTC and sold 991 BTC (92.6% of quarterly production), generating $70 million in gross proceeds. A filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) valued HIVE’s total Bitcoin reserves ...
Key Highlights: The CFTC issued a staff no-action letter allowing derivatives clearinghouses to use state and national trust companies for daily settlements, bridging a gap between federal commodities law and CFTC regulations. Major cryptocurrency firms, including Coinbase, BitGo, Ripple, Circle, and Crypto.com, are rapidly expanding institutional settlement, custody, and trading capabilities under federally regulated trust ...
Key Highlights: Binance Research identifies a negative 0.62 correlation between changes in the central bank diffusion index and Bitcoin’s six-month returns since 2021, revealing that slowing tightening momentum historically benefits BTC. While an upcoming Federal Reserve policy decision and elevated Treasury yields near 5% present near-term risks, peak tightening momentum has previously marked cyclical turnarounds ...
Key Highlights Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic uncovered an obfuscation method where cybercriminals use disposable liquidity pools on networks like NEAR, Tron, and Solana to mask illicit fund movements. Between November 5 and 7, illicit actors deployed six throwaway tokens on NEAR Protocol for roughly $90 each to wash approximately 117,000 NEAR ($430,000) using isolated buyer ...
Key Highlights: Rothschild Investment initiated a new position in the Bitwise XRP ETF during the third quarter of 2026, marking its entry into the Ripple-linked fund. The firm’s crypto portfolio remains heavily weighted toward Bitcoin, led by a $1.9 million position in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF alongside several other BTC vehicles totaling roughly $3.51 ...
Key Highlights: The onchain tokenized stock market has surged sixfold year-over-year, climbing from $643.3 million in November 2025 to $3.87 billion. New market offerings, including Kimber’s proposed model, aim to grant direct DTC-recorded ownership, dividend entitlements, and voting rights with cross-platform transferability. Wall Street institutions and crypto platforms—including the NYSE, Nasdaq, Formation Securities, and Payward—are ...
Key Highlights: Democratic lawmakers are scrutinizing the White House’s ethics oversight following an insider-trading case involving a former staffer and event-contract platform Kalshi. Senator Elizabeth Warren raised concerns over Donald Trump Jr.’s advisory roles and business ties, noting the president’s family has deepened ties with the sector. Lawmakers including Senator Catherine Cortez Masto and Representative ...
Key Highlights: A dormant whale wallet purchased $5.4 million worth of Ethereum at an average entry price of $2,113.46 using funds parked in stablecoins for nearly three years. A wallet tied to the UXLINK exploit liquidated a massive 30,000 ETH position via TWAP, locking in a $1.106 million realized loss after previously sitting on $16.8 ...
Key Highlights: Santiment’s 30-day GitHub tracking reveals Internet Computer ($ICP) leads all AI and big data cryptocurrency projects in developer activity with a score of 203.57. OriginTrail ($TRAC) secured the second position with a score of 175.53, followed by Chainlink ($LINK) in third place at 167.33. NEAR Protocol ($NEAR) took fourth place with 116.77 points, ...
Key Highlights: Mercado Bitcoin is set to resume fiat deposits and withdrawals in Brazilian reais through the Pix instant payment network next week. Fiat withdrawals will be strictly limited to bank accounts registered under the customer’s own name, and settled fixed-income funds will be credited. Cryptocurrency deposits and withdrawals remain halted with no scheduled timeline ...
Key Highlights: The Autobahn consensus mechanism serves as the final component of Sei’s comprehensive Giga upgrade. SIP-6 outlines strict deployment prerequisites, including independent audits, hardware specification disclosures, and state rehearsals prior to mainnet activation. While Sei documentation indicates a 200,000 TPS public-testnet target, the SIP-6 proposal guarantees no fixed throughput, and Sei Labs has yet ...
Key Highlights: Project Faro is preparing to launch a US dollar-pegged stablecoin before introducing tokens backed by other G7 currencies, prioritizing a euro-pegged asset. The banking initiative has grown from 10 founding financial institutions to 21 international firms, including Bank of America, UBS, Fidelity Investments, and Wells Fargo. The group plans to name a chief ...