Category: Cryptocurrency

3 weeks ago Cryptocurrency

Binance buys $100 million Circle stake in five-year USDC promotion deal

Binance bought 1,237,011 Circle Class A shares for $100 million and signed a five-year USDC promotion deal, per an SEC...
3 weeks ago Cryptocurrency

Strategy buys 950 bitcoin for $75.7 million, holdings reach 846,000 BTC

Strategy bought 950 BTC for about $75.7 million between Sept. 14 and 20, taking total holdings to 846,000 BTC, its...
3 weeks ago Cryptocurrency

ECB to invest part of its own funds in tokenised securities

The ECB will invest a small portion of its own-funds portfolio in tokenised securities, settled in central bank money through...
3 weeks ago Cryptocurrency

ZetaChain Proposes Shutting Down Its Layer-1 and Migrating ZETA to Solana

ZetaChain's governance proposal asks ZETA holders to approve shutting down its Layer-1 and swapping ZETA 1:1 for a Solana SPL...
4 weeks ago Cryptocurrency

Visa Moves to End Memecoin Credit Card Rewards Loophole Tied to Crossmint

Visa is directing payment processors to stop coding memecoin purchases as digital goods, closing a rewards loophole tied to Crossmint,...
4 weeks ago Cryptocurrency

S&P Global agrees to acquire smart-contract security firm OpenZeppelin

S&P Global has agreed to acquire smart-contract security firm OpenZeppelin, whose code has carried over $37 trillion, the company says....
4 weeks ago Cryptocurrency

Circle launches Arc blockchain mainnet with BlackRock, Visa among validators

Circle launched the public mainnet of Arc, its USDC-gas layer-1 blockchain, with BlackRock, Visa and DTCC among founding validators and...
4 weeks ago Cryptocurrency

Strategy skips Bitcoin buys for a second week, spends $139 million on STRC buyback

Strategy repurchased 1,420,467 STRC preferred shares for about $139.3 million and made no Bitcoin trades for a second straight week,...
1 month ago Cryptocurrency

Reform UK’s record £72M: was any of it actually crypto?

Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne each gave Reform UK £36 million, but neither announcement says how the money was paid....
1 month ago Cryptocurrency

Metaplanet cuts executive stock pool by 41%, wiping $220 million in warrant value

Metaplanet cut its Series 10 executive warrant pool by 41%, extinguishing over $220 million in value after shareholder dilution backlash...