South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) has lifted the ban on corporate investments in cryptocurrencies, according to local media. The final regulations will be published in January or February. Under the draft, legal entities will be allowed to allocate up to 5% of their shareholder equity to coins within the top 20 by market capitalization. […]
Bitcoin tried to clear $95,000, Zcash’s core developers quit, the Truebit token sank after a hack, Morgan Stanley filed to launch crypto ETFs, and other events of the week. Post-holiday moves The first full week of 2026 was relatively calm for crypto. Bitcoin started Monday by rising above $93,000. The upswing was tied to a […]
The cryptocurrency market requires more advanced decentralized stablecoins to address long-term issues such as inflation, according to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. We need better decentralized stablecoins. IMO three problems: 1. Ideally figure out an index to track that’s better than USD price2. Oracle design that’s decentralized and is not capturable with a large pool of […]
On January 8, following the latest adjustment, the difficulty of mining the leading cryptocurrency decreased by 1.2% to 146.47 T. Source: CloverPool. Previously, the metric increased by a modest 0.04%, briefly interrupting a series of declines. At the time of writing, Bitcoin’s hash rate remains above 1 ZH/s. According to Glassnode, the seven-day moving average […]
Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is set to invest over $20 billion in expanding a data center in Mississippi, USA. Governor Tate Reeves highlighted that this will be the largest private investment in the state’s history. Join me as we announce a record-breaking $20 billion investment in our state. Mississippi has momentum and THIS is […]
Bank of New York Mellon (BNY), the world’s largest custodian bank, has launched services for tokenized deposits aimed at institutional clients, according to Bloomberg. The service creates a digital representation of assets held at the institution on the blockchain. This enables the use of funds as collateral in secured and margin transactions. The solution also […]
Pump.fun, the “meme token factory,” will alter its commission reward system for content creators, as the current model has proven insufficiently beneficial. This was announced by the platform’s co-founder, Alon Cohen. According to him, the Dynamic Fees V1 payout mechanism introduced last year attracted new developers and spurred on-chain activity, but “failed to significantly change […]
Rain, a developer of payment infrastructure based on stablecoins, has raised $250 million in a Series C funding round led by ICONIQ. Onchain rails have proven their value.Rain is making them usable by everyone, and keeping them invisible in the process. Today, we’re announcing our $250M Series C at a $1.95B valuation to keep building. […]
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a letter in support of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm, who faces up to five years in prison. In August, a U.S. jury found the co-founder of the crypto mixer guilty of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business. However, the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict on charges […]
Over seven months, SharpLink Gaming has accrued 10,657 ETH ($33 million) through Ethereum staking. SharpLink generated 438 ETH in staking rewards last week, bringing our total cumulative staking rewards to 10,657 ETH. At current prices, that amounts to ~$1.4M of value generated for shareholders last week. Our thesis remains unchanged: 100% ETH and 100% staked. […]
