President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday he had launched Official Trump ($TRUMP), a Solana-based meme coin. The token exploded to $8 billion in market cap in less than three hours of its debut amid concerns that his social accounts might have be
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
Delysium's move to integrate AGI bridging to Solana could have price implications for AGI. By allowing AGI to interact with Solana's ecosystem, new use cases and increased accessibility may drive interest from Solana's broad user base. As bridging op
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
The launch of the ION Chain Mainnet is a significant milestone for Ice Open Network (ICE) happening on January 29, 2025. This event marks the complete functioning of the blockchain, which can attract developers and projects to build on it. A successf
Barcelona-based real-world asset (RWA) tokenization platform Brickken closed a $2.5 million seed funding round, bringing its post-money valuation to more than $22.5 million.Real-world asset tokenization refers to financial and other tangible assets m
Asset tokenization platform Brickken announced today it has secured $2.5 million in seed funding, setting its post-money valuation at $22.5 million. The company reports it has processed over $250 million in tokenized assets since launching its core p
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
In the last year, Bitcoin has gained such popularity that lawmakers and regulators across five continents now consider it a potential reserve asset — a transferable store of value held by a central bank that can be used to settle transactions. Czech
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,
Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley said 2025 may see a boom in smaller, niche businesses aided by AI and tokenization, more corporate Bitcoin adoption and an “unfreezing” of mergers and acquisitions that could benefit crypto.In a series of X posts on Jan. 5,
Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley says 2025 could see a boom in smaller, niche businesses aided by AI and tokenization, more corporate Bitcoin adoption, and an “unfreezing” of mergers and acquisitions that could benefit crypto.In a series of X posts on Jan.
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