Crypto
JAPANMetaplanet’s executive stock pool sparks shareholder backlashJapanese Bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet’s executive stock pool continues to draw shareholder backlash over stock dilution concerns. Multiple shareholders objected across social media to Metaplanet’s 10th Series executive option pool,…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Nigeria has moved to address what his office called the fragmentation of digital asset regulation.The Nigerian president’s special adviser Bayo Onanuga said that an executive order signed on Friday would “harmonize the regulation of virtual…
Shares of several Bitcoin mining companies surged Monday after Hut 8 and IREN announced major AI infrastructure deals, reinforcing investor optimism around miners expanding into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.IREN, Cipher Digital, CleanSpark, Hut 8 and MARA Holdings each gained…
Traders balked on Bitcoin (BTC) at $65,000 on Monday as crypto and risk-assets remained under pressure.Key points:Bitcoin staged several unsuccessful attempts to break and hold $65,000.US stocks face pressure from both the Iran war and an ongoing institutional tech sell-off.Bitcoin…
US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are seeing renewed investor demand, but the latest inflow streak has yet to provide enough momentum for a stronger recovery.Bitcoin ETFs recorded $75.7 million in net inflows for the week ending July 17, marking…
Veteran trader Peter Brandt says he has pinpointed the exact day in 2026 when he expects Bitcoin to hit the bottom of this market cycle.“I’ll go out on a limb and say we bottom on October 4th. So we’ll see,”…
Strategy, the world’s largest corporate holder of Bitcoin, is raising fresh capital through sales of its Class A common stock while maintaining its current Bitcoin holdings.Strategy raised $263.5 million through sales of its MSTR common stock under its at-the-market (ATM)…
Asset manager Grayscale plans to establish regular cash distributions from rewards generated by its Ether (ETH) and Solana (SOL) staking exchange-traded products (ETPs), giving holders recurring access to yield generated by underlying assets. In Form 8-K filings submitted to the US…
Institutional investors are looking beyond smart contract audits after traditional trust signals such as prior audits and operating history failed to predict which crypto projects would be exploited, according to Hacken.In its Q2 2026 Security & Compliance Report, Hacken said…
Bitcoin (BTC) starts the last full week of July holding key support while macro clouds continue to gather.Key points:Bitcoin preserves its 200-week trend line at the weekly close, leading to short-term BTC price targets of up to $67,000.US-Iran war rhetoric…
Allbridge, the company behind cross-chain stablecoin bridge Allbridge Core, said it has paused the protocol as a precaution after a “security incident” that reportedly saw $1.65 million drained on Sunday.The incident affected Allbridge Core’s Solana deployment, with the attacker having…
CLARITY hinges on Trump’s ethicsPolymarket suggests the odds of the CLARITY Act passing this year are just 40%, after a raft of Democratic Senators, including Chris Murphy, Jeff Merkley and Chris Van Hollen, spoke out against the bill. A crucial…
South Korea’s financial authorities investigated more than 40 cases of unfair trading, including market manipulation and fraudulent crypto trading, in the last two years. According to an X post by Financial Services Commission Chair Lee Eog-won, 30 of them reported or…
Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor took to social media on Sunday to detail his “110 reasons” why a proposed temporary fork to limit non-monetary transactions on the Bitcoin network, or BIP-110, is a bad idea.Bitcoin Improvement Proposal-110 was introduced in…
US regulatory agencies missed the rulemaking deadline under the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act on Saturday, which marked one year since the law was signed. Several US regulatory agencies published proposed rules and collected public feedback…
South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has reportedly sent an inspection opinion letter to Dunamu, the operator of crypto exchange Upbit, regarding the $36 million hack from November 2025.Local news outlet Yonhap News reported Sunday that the FSS had recently…
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