EU Targets A7 Crypto Network Behind $120B in Transfers
The first potential third-country crypto-services ban pushes EU enforcement beyond Russian entities and into offshore infrastructure serving them.
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The first potential third-country crypto-services ban pushes EU enforcement beyond Russian entities and into offshore infrastructure serving them.
The size of the bet is the headline, but the venue is the story: a London-based quant manager is now comfortable running nine-figure derivatives exposure natively on a decentralized perpetuals book.
B2C2's reported $1B+ ask is the headline, but the stalled talks are the real read: a top-tier institutional liquidity book is hard to price when trading volumes are weak and M&A comps in the sector…
The structural shift is bigger than any single cycle: spot Bitcoin ETFs and RWA drew the speculative bid away, and capital that once chased joke tokens is consolidating into BTC and TradFi-linked…
The bottleneck is no longer issuance. Citi's 2030 scenarios put RWA-linked DeFi TVL anywhere from $54B to $1.5T, with the spread decided by who institutions trust to price assets when the underlying…
Once the largest mining pool on the Bitcoin network with 18-20% of global hashrate, Poolin now owes creditors roughly $173M while a single $52M offer for its West Texas sites is the main recovery on…
Eight named DATs have liquidated or pledged most of their holdings as bitcoin's 50% slump from the 2025 peak forces a sector-wide reset.
Strategy alone carries $6.7B in converts and $15.5B in preferred against 843,738 BTC; bear-case math puts calendar-driven selling at 77,100–128,500 coins over two years.
Tokenized equities are multiplying across crypto venues; the differentiator is no longer who offers them, but whose order book actually holds up under stress.
The 622.66 BTC ($40.7M) plaintiffs cite is the headline number, but the allegations of an internal desk trading on frozen-server data and collateral siphoned to an insurance fund cut at trust in…
With $173M in prepetition obligations and a customer-withdrawal freeze from 2022 still unresolved, the stalking-horse bid opens a court-supervised auction that will set the recovery benchmark for…
The orderly shutdown of the legacy derivatives venue shows how far exchange risk has shifted from counterparty failure to regulatory drag, with active books forced closed weeks before withdrawals…
The technical pattern breaks while Ripple ships a Mint function for RLUSD, leaving traders split between a constructive long-term trend and a price that refuses to reclaim prior breakout zones.
BTC brushed off a sharp Nasdaq-led tech sell-off while ETH slipped 2%, and a multi-decade low in weekly jobless claims kept the macro tape stuck between risk-off headlines and a still-tight labor…
Two infrastructure plays land in a month where RLUSD's holders grew but monthly transfer volume fell 25%, highlighting the gap between owning the stablecoin and actually moving it.
Korea's oldest exchange becomes Digital X, a Mirae Asset-controlled platform built around real-world assets, security tokens and stablecoins rather than Upbit-style retail volume.
If the bill clears the chamber before the August 10 recess, the next stop is a House vote and, if signed, the first federal market-structure law for crypto, digital asset developer safe harbor, and…
An 11% after-hours pop is the headline, but the deeper read is Intel beating top-line by $1.7B while reversing a multi-year revenue contraction for the chip giant.
Retiring the paper is mostly cosmetic on a quoted London share count, but BTC-per-share still dropped, which is the real signal for the treasury thesis.
The prediction lands as a personal forecast from Musk, not a benchmarked industry forecast, and it does not move markets on its own, but it does shape the AGI-timeline narrative every other AI lab is…