Polygon Trims Workforce Amid $250M Open Money Stack Payments Pivot
Polygon Labs has cut personnel as it pivots more aggressively to a payments-first strategy built around stablecoin rails and what...
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Bull, base or bear? Three possible paths for crypto in 2026
In a recent interview, Aaron Arnold of Altcoin Daily broke down his crypto market outlook for 2026, drawing parallels with...
Anchorage Digital looks to raise up to $400M ahead of potential 2027 IPO
Key Takeaways Anchorage Digital is eyeing a $200M–$400M capital raise. The firm is America's first federally chartered crypto bank. Share...
DeFi Captures 5x Fee of Blockchains, Value Drifts to Front-End Apps
Revenue in the crypto industry is increasingly flowing to user-facing applications rather than the underlying blockchain networks, according to recent...
Short Squeeze Hits Top 500 Cryptos, Traders Unwind Bearish Bets
Cryptocurrency markets staged their largest short squeeze since the selloff in early October, as a rebound in prices forced bearish...
Bankinter Takes Stake In Bit2Me Alongside Tether And BBVA
Spanish bank Bankinter has taken a minority stake in Spanish cryptocurrency exchange Bit2Me, joining stablecoin issuer Tether and other investors...
Trump-backed World Liberty signs MoU with Pakistan to study stablecoin use in cross-border payments
Key Takeaways Pakistan is working with SC Financial Technologies, a firm affiliated with World Liberty Financial, to examine integrating the...
Franklin Templeton Retrofits Money Market Funds for US Stablecoin Regime
Franklin Templeton has amended two Western Asset institutional money market funds (MMFs) to plug directly into the emerging US stablecoin...
Standard Chartered Said to Launch Crypto Brokerage, Lowers ETH Forecasts
Standard Chartered may develop a crypto prime brokerage platform, a potential expansion of the bank’s digital asset ambitions as traditional...
Sharplink Pockets $33M From Ether Staking, Deploys Another $170M
Public companies and crypto-focused treasury firms are increasingly turning to staking as a source of passive income.Sharplink Gaming, the world’s...
Exodus trims Bitcoin holdings but clears debt to enter 2026
Key Takeaways Exodus reported a year-end update showing a debt-free balance sheet alongside adjustments to its corporate digital asset holdings....
Ripple Gains UK Regulatory Approval Via Local Arm
Cryptocurrency company Ripple is expanding its regulatory footprint after securing authorization from the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).The FCA...
Bitcoin Steadies as ETF Flows Reverse and Altcoins Reprice
Cryptocurrency markets experienced a limited recovery this week as investor liquidity gradually returned after the holidays.Bitcoin (BTC) topped a weekly...
BlackRock Buys $900M BTC as Long-Term Selling Hits 2017 Lows
BlackRock’s fresh round of Bitcoin (BTC) buying takes place alongside a sharp slowdown in long-term selling, a combination that points...
BlackRock sends $276M in Bitcoin and $83M in Ethereum to Coinbase Prime
Key Takeaways BlackRock transferred $276M in Bitcoin and $83M in Ethereum to Coinbase Prime. The transfers come as early-2026 ETF...
Dfns Integrates Concordium Blockchain For Compliant Web3 Wallets
Dfns, a digital wallet infrastructure provider and a partner of tech giant IBM, has integrated Concordium’s layer-1 (L1) blockchain to...
Why Crypto-Treasury Stocks Fall Faster Than the Assets They Hold
Is the “crypto treasury” strategy a double-edged sword for investors? Not long ago, companies marketed crypto-treasury stocks as a straightforward...
Strategy Starts 2026 With $116M Bitcoin Buy, Posts $17B Loss in Q4
Strategy, the world’s largest corporate holder of bitcoin, began the new year with its first purchase of 2026 while reporting...
PwC ramps up digital assets work under revised US regulatory environment
Key Takeaways PwC has shifted its strategy to more actively engage in the crypto space. The move comes as the...
Will Crypto Billionaires Actually Leave California After New Tax?
Crypto billionaires are threatening to leave the state of California after a prominent trade union proposed a 5% assets tax...
Bitwise Files with the US SEC to Launch 11 Crypto ETFs
Crypto fund manager Bitwise has filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch 11 single‑token “strategy”...
Perpetuals DEX Volume Hit $7.9T in 2025 as Onchain Trading Scales
Perpetuals decentralized exchanges are closing 2025 with cumulative trading volume reaching $12.09 trillion, up from $4.1 trillion at the start...
