US Defense Secretary backs strategic Bitcoin push vs China
Hegseth's framing of Bitcoin as a strategic asset — not just a market — pulls the asset into the national-security perimeter for the first time at cabinet level.
Crypto business news — institutional moves, funding rounds, payments, partnerships, and country-level adoption.
Hegseth's framing of Bitcoin as a strategic asset — not just a market — pulls the asset into the national-security perimeter for the first time at cabinet level.
A decade after that first position, the early skeptics are now facing a trillion-dollar global monetary system that owns its category — and ARK never sold.
The footprint widened by five networks in a single update, but the structural story is settlement, not speculation: USDC is becoming a real rail between issuers, acquirers, banks and treasury systems…
Ripple's stablecoin is posting record numbers and landing institutional collateral status — but the token itself is still consolidating under $1.40 while Standard Chartered holds its $2.80 year-end…
The spike-and-rejection puts the $80K question back on the table — bulls need a clean break and hold, otherwise $73.5K is back in play.
Gemini has secured a derivatives license and is moving to enter the prediction market space, positioning itself as a…
Polymarket has tapped Chainalysis to layer Wall Street-calibre compliance and monitoring infrastructure onto its…
Anchorage Digital and M0 have announced a partnership aimed at powering a new wave of regulated stablecoins — combining…
The bullish on gold's displacement is the headline, but the tenfold user-growth target she set internally for Binance employees this year is the operational tell.
The three-segment restructure puts PYUSD and processing under one roof, signaling PayPal is treating stablecoins as a core payments rail rather than a side experiment.
Coinbase's asset management arm is moving into structured credit, offering a new fund that combines stablecoin yield…
XRP's social sentiment has climbed into what analysts are calling a FOMO zone, with the Rakuten Pay partnership cited…
Bitmine's 24-hour accumulation of 65,000 ETH pushes its treasury past 4.2% of circulating supply, and the chairman's long-dated $62,000 call is back on the tape just as fees leadership returns.
Alberta's $142B sovereign wealth manager takes a 1.38M-share position in MSTR — a first allocation into Bitcoin-correlated corporate treasury exposure for a Canadian public pension entity.
The corporate endorsement is the headline — but the rollout starts in two countries and runs through Stripe, a deliberately narrow test that will be judged on adoption metrics before scale, not…
Germany's AllUnity has expanded its EURAU euro stablecoin to the Solana network, adding a high-throughput settlement…
The token burn removes 36% of circulating supply at once, but the buyback program ties future price action to Pump.fun's ability to keep generating fees against a fast-rising challenger field.
Anchored by a DFSA payments license, the MEA push lands XRP as the regulated settlement rail for cross-border flows in a corridor where roughly 20% of Ripple's global customers already sit.
One of Korea's largest card issuers is testing non-custodial stablecoin settlement on Solana — a credible on-ramp signal from a traditional payments heavyweight into the $SOL ecosystem.
Four years after Libra died, Meta is back with a USDC payout pilot for creators in Colombia and the Philippines, and a Goldman-anchored TAM of $25B to $48B per year in stablecoin creator flows.