Crypto business news — institutional moves, funding rounds, payments, partnerships, and country-level adoption.
Nikil Viswanathan frames the pitch as structural: agents don't sleep, don't carry cards, and transact natively in code — so the friction in TradFi is a bottleneck, not a feature, for the next…
The two-year-old spot product just closed a scale gap Deribit took a decade to build, with $27.6B in open IBIT contracts on Nasdaq now slightly above the offshore giant's $26.9B — a structural shift…
The closed-door, top-297 $TRUMP-holder format repeats a dinner that already drew ethics complaints — but the lineup now pulls in Tether, Anchorage and Ark Invest, putting a real institutional edge on…
MiCA collapsed a patchwork of national rules into a single passportable framework — and BBVA, DZ Bank, Société Générale and KBC are the proof points that the architectural question is already…
Roughly $48M in payment volume has already moved through x402, with about 95% of it landing on Base — early but directional evidence that agentic commerce is becoming a real flow, not a slideware…
Nearly 35M XRP left exchanges in one of the year's largest daily outflow readings while spot XRP ETFs kept absorbing — the compressed range is doing the work the headlines haven't.
The OTC block is small relative to Bitmine's 4.97M ETH stash, but it shows a treasury-firm bid still live while peers have stepped back — and routes fresh capital straight to the Foundation.
The probe's closure lifts the Tillis hold that had blocked Kevin Warsh's confirmation — and Kalshi's Warsh-confirmation odds jumped from ~30% to 80%+ on the news, signaling traders see a near-term…
A $75B raise at a $1.75T valuation, layered onto $240B+ from OpenAI and Anthropic, would pull risk-on capital from the same pool that has been bidding crypto higher through the spot-ETF era.
The administration's 9.9% position, converted from CHIPS Act grants at $20.47 in August, is now worth roughly $35.4 billion — an $26.5B unrealized gain that recasts industrial policy as an active…
Greenspan agrees the bottom is in but says the real driver ahead is central banks adding BTC to reserves alongside gold — and the US strategic reserve, El Salvador's daily buys, and 300K US-held…
Exodus CEO JP Richardson frames the setup: Morgan Stanley, Schwab and BlackRock keep adding to spot ETFs while retail capitulates, and the 20-week moving average is back at a level that's triggered…
The thesis matters because a Fed chair publicly framing AI as a deflationary productivity shock is the strongest dovish setup for the rate-cut path markets have had in months.
Circle, Coinbase, Kraken, Ripple and Chainlink signed a joint letter to the Senate Banking Committee as the bill's timeline slips from April into May, warning that another stall would unwind a year…
Binance alone cleared $1.09T in 2026 volume — and the BIS says the platforms with the deepest books are exactly the ones behaving like unregulated banks, with no capital buffers, no deposit…
The resilience is the real signal: a 17% weekly WTI spike and a firmer dollar failed to push BTC off the level, while a $1.19B short squeeze did most of the lifting above $79K.
Spot Bitcoin ETF holders absorbed a $1.32B March inflow reversal and $2.42B in April additions while Bitcoin fell to $78K, and the 99.5% retention rate on a 20% drop points to a structurally…
Brazilian Finance Minister Dario Durigan announced a sweeping ban on 28 betting platforms operating in the country…
JPMorgan expects tokenization to become embedded in the ETF ecosystem, but the bank is tempering expectations on timing…
The Department of Justice has dropped its criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, removing a…
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