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Data from Arkham Intelligence shows the largest transfer across addresses tagged as belonging to the company moved 0.00213 BTC, about $135, between two wallets. A second sent 0.00139 BTC, or about $89.
Kazakhstan targets gas-powered electricity for mining, income tax exemptions for regulated crypto transactions and cross-border stablecoin payments in a new decree signed by the president.
Nigel Farage's £5 million gift from billionaire Tether investor Christopher Harborne was flagged to the UK's National Crime Agency by bankers, the Guardian has reported.
Tokenization specialist Dinari and broker-dealer tZERO are working together to offer broker-dealers a turnkey platform for tokenized U.S. equities, as competition intensifies over how public stocks should move onto bloc…
Citadel abandoned its U.S. trade secrets lawsuit against crypto market maker Portofino Technologies, saying it no longer made financial sense to pursue another court victory while struggling to collect a nearly 6 millio…
The XRP Ledger’s recent server software upgrade, v3.2.0, designed to make the network cheaper to run, more stable, and more attractive for institutional use, is gaining adoption. However, it has yet to overtake the prev…
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Tokenized Real World Assets span treasuries, real estate, stocks, commodities and private credit. The sector is still small in TradFi terms but it's growing very, very fast.
Kalshi appealed to the Second Circuit after a New York federal judge denied its request to block state gambling officials from enforcing local laws against its sports event contracts.
BTC, the leading cryptocurrency by market capitalization, slipped to $62,657 in Asian trading hours, down nearly 1% since midnight UTC, according to CoinDesk data. Ether (ETH), XRP (XRP), and solana (SOL) fell between 1…
Down more than 1% at its lowest levels this morning, the Nasdaq managed to close with a 0.2% gain, led by a 3.65% advance for Nvidia.
Anthropic has removed a hidden tracking system from Claude Code after a security researcher discovered the AI coding assistant was using undisclosed markers to identify some users’ location, proxy use, and possible link…
Kraken, the cryptocurrency exchange planning to go public in the U.S., is pursuing a full banking license in Europe, with a focus on Lithuania as the jurisdiction to secure it, according to a person familiar with the pl…
A new app from the team behind Cake Wallet brings Bitcoin payments directly into private messaging.
Prominent stablecoin issuer Tether said Tuesday it will invest $20 million in a strategic financing round for Mercado Bitcoin, a Brazilian cryptocurrency exchange, as the two companies push to expand blockchain-based fi…
Kenya's securities regulator wants to buy a blockchain surveillance system to help police the country's fast-growing crypto market, as it prepares to license and supervise virtual asset firms under a new law.
Two Polymarket traders are suing the prediction market platform, claiming it rewrote a market's rules after the fact to deny them a winning payout tied to Strategy's Bitcoin sale.
Crypto exchange Coinbase has won regulatory approval to offer stocks and derivatives to UK customers, the biggest expansion of its product line-up in one of its largest international markets and its latest move toward w…
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The 10-year Japanese government bond (JGB) yield has surged to a 30-year high of 2.85%, adding 18 basis points since the start of the month and raising borrowing costs across other major developed markets.
MediaFuse, the company behind crypto press-release wire Chainwire, is expanding into mainstream tech with a newswire optimized for AI chatbots as well as human readers.
The product, BTC Yield, is available inside Binance Earn and is designed exclusively for people who already hold bitcoin.
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs pulled in $265.69 million on Monday, the largest daily inflow in over a month and the second in three sessions after July 2 broke a long run of outflows, per SoSoValue data. Ether ETFs added $20.6…