Cryptocurrency

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has moved to scrap its $5 million settlement with crypto exchange Gemini after concluding that the enforcement case should not have been filed under…

BIS tokenization work has cleared its atomic settlement prototype phase and will graduate to real-value cross-border payment trials. Summary Project Agora demonstrated tokenised cross-border settlement across seven central banks and…

Strive, Inc. has used its SATA preferred stock program to buy an estimated 490 BTC in a single day, surpassing the Bitcoin network’s average daily issuance of roughly 450 BTC.…

HTX denies UK sanctions allegations after the Foreign Office accused affiliate Huobi Global S.A. of funnelling $1.5 billion to Russia. Summary HTX says UK sanctions apply only to Huobi Global…

Aztec Labs has acquired ZKPassport but will keep the privacy-focused passport-scanning app fully open source. Summary Aztec Labs acquired ZKPassport but will keep the iOS app and Noir circuits open…

Bitdeer names ex-Corsair finance chief Michael Potter as CFO, effective Tuesday, replacing Jianchun Liu. Summary Michael Potter takes over as Bitdeer CFO effective Tuesday, with outgoing CFO Jianchun Liu staying…

The CFTC has moved a proposed rule on prediction-markets event contracts into White House review as federal and state officials fight over who should police the fast-growing sector. Summary The…

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has said the bank could spend as much as $20 billion on a major acquisition over the next two years if the right target appears.…

Apple is being re-rated as an AI winner on the back of “agentic” iPhone and Mac ecosystems rather than frontier models, and the next question is whether on-device agents eventually…

SpaceX has emerged as a potential major public Bitcoin holder as Grayscale Research links the company’s planned June listing to its reported BTC treasury Summary SpaceX could become the largest…