Kraken parent Payward cuts 150 jobs ahead of $20B IPO
The layoffs trim about 5% of headcount at a venue seeking fresh capital at a $20B mark, after a quiet November S-1 filing — a familiar pre-listing rationalization playbook.
Crypto business news — institutional moves, funding rounds, payments, partnerships, and country-level adoption.
The layoffs trim about 5% of headcount at a venue seeking fresh capital at a $20B mark, after a quiet November S-1 filing — a familiar pre-listing rationalization playbook.
The conflict became an unplanned stress test for continuous price discovery — and Hyperliquid's synthetic oil and gold perps traded through weekends while NYSE slept.
The bill still needs a seven-Democrat floor coalition and an Agriculture Committee merge before a final vote — but bipartisan committee passage is the first time a US crypto market structure bill has…
The layoffs are small relative to a 3,000-person headcount, but the raise, the acquisition spree, and the live S-1 frame a company that has decided to grow into its public-market valuation rather…
Bitwise's Hunter Horsley frames the split — stablecoins, Bitcoin, tokenization, infrastructure — as each sector now operating on its own fundamentals, regulatory path, and adoption curve.
Figure AI says its humanoid robot has crossed 30 hours of uninterrupted autonomous work without any downtime — a…
The repurchase is below par — a $120M discount on the 0% 2029 notes — and the funding mix lets MSTR lean on its Bitcoin hoard instead of diluting equity at a discount.
Five beats, one week: the next Fed Chair softens on crypto, the CLARITY Act clears a Senate hurdle, Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade advances, and Circle and Coinbase move on stablecoin plumbing.
The 92-cent-on-the-dollar buyback is cheap; the disclosure that bitcoin sales are on the table as a funding source undercuts Saylor's 'net accumulator' framing and gives the market something to price…
The debut inflow print is small relative to spot $BTC and $ETH products, but landing Coinbase as the official USDC treasury deployer is the structural signal — it ties the protocol's dollar rails to…
DogeOS's CEO framed $DOGE as closer to Bitcoin's original peer-to-peer cash vision — and teased ecosystem tooling "crazy things on the horizon" that don't depend on celebrity mentions.
The 0% coupon was the cheap funding trick that built the bitcoin war chest; retiring half of it now is the first real test of whether MSTR can shrink its own overhang without selling into a weak BTC…
The Winklevoss-funded bitcoin infusion lands the same quarter Gemini cut 25% of staff, exited three jurisdictions, and cleared a CFTC derivatives license — the market is betting the strategic pivot…
The portfolio overlaps directly with companies now winning under the administration's lighter-touch crypto regime, turning the routine 278-T filing into a conflict-of-interest flashpoint as the SEC…
Two roughly equal 20% stakes — and the involvement of a major domestic broker — would be the first major foreign-exchange entry into South Korea since Binance closed on Gopax.
86 validators are now running the patched Alpenglow build on a community cluster restart — the upgrade Yakovenko says validates Solana's core architecture thesis.
Regulatory progress is the structural win, but a 2-year yield above 4.05% and sticky inflation are the near-term headwind for bitcoin and risk assets.
The raise is small relative to frontier-AI capital flows, but the bet is structural: Nof1's Alpha Arena is the first public test of whether LLMs can evolve from chatbots into autonomous capital…
The token hit a near-six-month high as Bitwise's BHYP began trading and Coinbase deepened Hyperliquid's dollar rails — a regulated-access combo that's pulling real futures positioning behind it.
Polymarket has been named the exclusive prediction market partner of Serie A, Italy's top-flight football league…