Paybis brings PayPal payments to US crypto buyers in bid to boost adoption
Paybis, a digital asset exchange founded in Latvia, said it has begun allowing US customers to purchase crypto using PayPal,...
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eBay rejects GameStop’s $56B bid
Ryan Cohen’s half-cash, half-stock bid to acquire eBay was swiftly rejected, as the company’s board told GameStop CEO his proposal...
Coursera and Udemy complete merger to create AI skills giant worth $2.5 billion
Coursera completed its combination with Udemy, creating one of the world’s largest online skills platforms as demand for AI training...
Cowboy Space raises $275M to build orbital data centers powered by solar energy
Cowboy Space Corporation raised $275 million in Series B funding at a $2 billion valuation to build orbital AI data...
Trump takes Elon Musk, Tim Cook and Wall Street chiefs to China in bid to unlock business deals
The White House is bringing a large group of US business leaders to China alongside President Donald Trump for meetings...
Ripple secures $200 million debt facility to expand prime brokerage lending capacity
Ripple has locked down a $200 million debt facility from Neuberger Specialty Finance to support expansion of Ripple Prime, its...
Crypto.com wins UAE central bank license to let residents pay government bills with crypto
Crypto.com, headquartered in Singapore with more than 150 million registered users, just became the first crypto company to secure a...
Circle raises $222 million from BlackRock and Wall Street giants for Arc blockchain
Circle Internet Group, the publicly listed issuer of the USDC stablecoin, pulled in $222 million through a presale of the...
BlackRock COO, Ripple CEO set to join CZ at Binance’s first global virtual event
Binance is set to launch Binance Online, a new global virtual event aimed at bringing together some of the most...
Trump Media takes $406 million hit from Bitcoin and equity losses
Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), which runs Truth Social and other Trump-branded media and technology platforms, posted a net...
Bitwise enters tokenized funds with planned takeover of Superstate’s $267M USCC fund
Bitwise Asset Management plans to take over investment management of Superstate’s Crypto Carry Fund, marking the crypto asset manager’s first...
Kraken Parent Payward Buys Reap Technologies in $600M Deal
Kraken parent Payward agreed to acquire Hong Kong-based Reap Technologies for up to $600 million, expanding its push into stablecoin...
Genius Group closes $8M offering to buy stake in Bermuda digital bank
Genius Group closed an $8 million registered direct offering to fund part of its push into regulated stablecoin and digital...
Kalshi closes $1 billion raise at $22 billion valuation as Wall Street piles in
Prediction market platform Kalshi closed a $1 billion funding round at a $22 billion valuation, led by Coatue with backing...
Kraken parent strikes $600 million deal to acquire Asian stablecoin firm Reap
Payward, the company behind crypto exchange Kraken, is buying Reap Technologies for $600 million using cash and stock valued at...
Grant Cardone adds $100 million in Bitcoin to real estate deal, targeting 32% returns
Grant Cardone, who leads Cardone Capital, on Wednesday revealed that the firm recently structured a $235 million real estate deal...
Ondo, JPMorgan, Mastercard and Ripple complete tokenized Treasury pilot on XRP Ledger
Ondo Finance, Kinexys by J.P. Morgan, Mastercard and Ripple completed a pilot transaction linking tokenized US Treasuries on the XRP...
SpaceXAI gives Anthropic access to Colossus 1 to boost Claude capacity
SpaceXAI signed an agreement to give Anthropic access to Colossus 1, one of the world’s largest AI supercomputers, as demand...
OpenTrade raises $17M to push stablecoin yield into fintechs and DeFi
OpenTrade raised $17 million in a strategic funding round to expand its stablecoin yield infrastructure as demand grows for products...
Hut 8 stock nears 35% surge after $9.8B AI data center lease
Hut 8 shares surged nearly 35% Wednesday after the company announced a 15 year, $9.8 billion lease to commercialize the...
Morgan Stanley debuts ultra-cheap crypto trading to challenge Coinbase and Robinhood
Morgan Stanley, which spent $13 billion to acquire E*Trade six years ago, is now using that platform to offer crypto...
Solana Foundation and Google Cloud launch Pay.sh payment gateway for AI agents
Solana Foundation and Google Cloud have launched Pay.sh, a new payment gateway that lets AI agents access and pay for...
