Open Campus, a decentralized education initiative backed by Animoca Brands and Binance Labs, has launched EDU Chain, a layer 3 blockchain on Arbitrum Orbit, designed to power educational applications and cultivate a thriving dApp ecosystem, the team
Upbit, which dominates South Korea's crypto trading market, faces potential business suspension and fines due to violations of anti-money laundering (AML) regulations, particularly regarding its Know Your Customer (KYC) practices, Maeil Business News
Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy's largest banking group, purchased 11 Bitcoin worth approximately 1 million euros ($1 million) in its first spot Bitcoin acquisition, Bloomberg reported. The purchase was revealed in an internal email by Niccolò Bardoscia, the
MicroStrategy bought 2,530 Bitcoin BTC for $243 million at an average price of $95,972 per BTC, according to a Jan. 13 announcement from Michael Saylor, the company's co-founder and executive chairman.The purchase marks MicroStrategy's tenth consecut
CryptoProcessing by CoinsPaid has been operating in the crypto payment gateway market since 2014. Originally launched as an internal product of a software company, it transitioned to an independent entity in 2019. Its operations expanded significantl
Do Kwon's criminal trial over the $40 billion TerraUSD collapse will begin on January 26, 2026, in the Southern District of New York. Prosecutors are reviewing six terabytes of evidence provided by Montenegrin authorities after his December 2024 extr
Movement Labs is nearing completion of a $100 million Series B funding round that would value the blockchain development firm at approximately $3 billion, Fortune reported Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the deal.The report said that a Moveme
Ripple is adopting Chainlink's standard to provide reliable pricing data for its RLUSD stablecoin, aiming to enhance its utility across decentralized finance applications, according to a statement shared by the team on Dec. 7.The integration comes af
Ahmad Shadid, founder of Io.net, has invested $130 million of his personal funds to develop a Decentralized AI Managed Organization (DeAIO) through O.XYZ, according to a Dec. 7 statement shared with Crypto Briefing. The project aims to create a self-
PENGU, the utility token of the Pudgy Penguins ecosystem, has surged approximately 26% in the last 48 hours, propelling its market capitalization to $2.8 billion and flipping Optimism's OP token to become the 58th largest crypto asset by market value
MicroStrategy said Monday it had acquired 1,070 Bitcoin for $101 million between Dec. 30 and 31, 2024, boosting its total holdings to 447,470 BTC, valued at around $44.3 billion at current market prices.According to a recent SEC filing , the Tysons,
The Trump administration may revive M&A deals, which, in turn, could fuel crypto adoption as this reinforces the idea that decentralized systems are preferable to centralized institutions that may not act in the best interests of individuals, said Hu
After a long and arduous process following its dramatic collapse, the FTX payout plan has officially gone into effect today, January 3, 2025. This marks a major milestone for creditors who have been awaiting the recovery of their assets.The FTX estat
BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) recorded its largest single-day outflow of over $332 million on January 1, surpassing its previous record of $188 million set on December 24, according to updated data from Farside Investors.The massive IBIT w
E-Trade, Morgan Stanley's online brokerage division, is exploring plans to launch crypto trading services amid expectations of a more favorable regulatory environment under the Trump administration, The Information reported Thursday, citing sources f
Bettors on prediction market Polymarket are pricing in a 78% probability that the SEC will approve spot Solana ETFs in 2025, following the previous approval for Bitcoin and Ethereum investment products.Created just yesterday, the poll kicked off at 4
If Trump implements Bitcoin as a strategic reserve, Japan and other Asian nations will follow the same path, said Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich at a recent Bitcoin event hosted by Michael Saylor.Tokyo-listed Metaplanet, which began its Bitcoin strate