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,”…

MOPO, a pay-per-use battery technology company based in Sheffield, UK, but focused on Africa, has reached an understanding with Nigeria for a $75 million (approx. ₦120 billion) expansion, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing a statement by the firm. The deal…

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…

FirstHoldCo Plc has reported another outstanding financial performance for the half year ended June 30, 2026. Most notably, profit before tax rose by an impressive 83.5 per cent to ₦653.5 billion. The Group also recorded gross earnings of ₦1.93 trillion,…

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…

São Tomé and Príncipe rejected bids for its three offshore oil blocs after its 2026 licensing round attracted only Brazil’s Petrobras and Nigeria’s Oranto Petroleum. The decision surprised many because the island nation of Central Africa had offered investors unusually…

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…

Nigerian stocks depreciated slightly last week, shedding 0.1 per cent as profit-taking activities weighed on the market. Sell pressure on industrial goods stocks triggered the decline. The main equity index has returned 56.5 per cent so far this year. With…

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…

The Federal Government seeks to deploy Nigeria’s digital identity infrastructure to track mining operators, strengthen regulation, and curb illegal mining nationwide. The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, disclosed that when he received the Director-General of the National Identity…

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…