Ethereum-focused digital asset treasury firm ETHZilla (ETHZ) on Froday sold about $40 million ether ETH$4,135.56 from its treasury, so far using some of the cash to repurchase shares of its own stock, the company said on Monday. Since the sale on October 24, the firm bought back around 600,000 shares for roughly $12 million. The […]
ClearBank, a crypto-friendly neobank and regulated provider of Faster Payments in the U.K., plans to join the Circle Payments Network (CPN), linking its cloud-native banking platform to Circle’s blockchain-based infrastructure to speed up cross-border payments and offer access to regulated stablecoins. The move follows a new strategic agreement between the U.K.-founded clearing bank and Circle […]
A proposed XRP Ledger amendment, Batch (XLS-56), is generating excitement among developers and validators alike. One pseudonymous XRP validator, Vet, has shared his experience testing the Batch functionality on the dev net, where multiple transactions, including minting and payments for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), can be bundled and executed automatically. The amendment, according to Vet, enables […]
The REX-Osprey XRP ETF (XRPR) has surpassed $100 million in assets under management (AUM) in just five weeks after its launch, according to issuer REX-Osprey. The ETF has experienced rapid growth since its launch on Sept. 18. It offers investors exposure to the price of XRP, currently the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. Loading… With […]
President Donald Trump has named his new choice to lead the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, formally backing Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer Mike Selig after jettisoning his one-time pick of former CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz. The near-term leadership of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission could be a weighty matter for the crypto industry as […]
Crypto.com has applied to the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for a national trust bank charter, a step it says would expand its federally supervised crypto-custody services for institutions. In Friday’s announcement, the exchange framed the filing as an extension of its regulated, security-first push for large customers — ETF sponsors, […]
LUGANO, Switzerland — Tether, the crypto company behind the world’s largest stablecoin, USDT USDT$1.0002, is planning fresh investments to bring its U.S.-focused U.S. dollar stablecoin to a 100 million American user base, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said in an interview on Friday. The USAT token, designed specifically for the U.S. market to comply with federal […]
Data from Lookonchain shows an early bitcoin BTC$111,379.36 miner wallet holding 4,000 BTC (around $442 million) has become active for the first time in 14 years. The wallet, identified as 18eY9o, transferred 150 BTC (roughly $16.6 million) after years of dormancy. These coins were originally mined in 2009 and consolidated into the wallet in 2011. […]
Crypto markets were in rally mode on Thursday alongside sizable gains in stocks, a U.S. presidential pardon for Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, and ahead of tomorrow’s key reading on September inflation. In mid-afternoon U.S. trading, bitcoin BTC$109,538.70 was up 2.7% over the past 24 hours to $110,700, down a hair from the day’s high of […]
Bunni, a decentralized exchange (DEX) built on Uniswap v4, said it will close permanently two months after an exploit drained some $8.4 million in crypto and left the team without the resources to recover. In a post on X, the team behind Bunni said the cost to securely relaunch the protocol would run into “6-7 […]
Tesla (TSLA) continued to hold 11,509 BTC, valued at around $1.35 billion as of the end of the third quarter (valued somewhat less as of today). The rise in bitcoin’s value during the third quarter allowed the company to book an $80 million gain on its holdings. For perspective, adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was […]
Layer-1 blockchain XDC Network’s venture arm said on Wednesday it had acquired Contour Network, a digital platform designed for banks to streamline trade finance with blockchain rails. Contour was originally backed by major banks like HSBC, Citi and Standard Chartered but struggled to scale and was shuttered in late 2023. Under XDC’s ownership, it will […]
