DeepSeek seeks $300M in first outside funding at $10B valuation
DeepSeek is seeking its first outside funding round at a valuation of at least $10 billion, according to a report...
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Kraken owner to buy Bitnomial for up to $500M
Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, is spending up to $550 million to acquire Bitnomial, a Chicago-based digital...
Flow Capital to Tokenize $150M Private Credit Fund on Blockchain: Report
Flow Capital Partners is planning to tokenize its private credit fund through Singapore-based DigiFT, Bloomberg reported Friday, as the Hong...
Key Figure Behind $20 Million Meta-1 Coin Fraud Receives 23 Years
A Texas man found guilty of helping orchestrate a cryptocurrency scam project that defrauded $20 million from nearly 1,000 investors...
Sanctioned Crypto Exchange Grinex Pauses Operations After $14 Million Hack
Sanctioned crypto exchange Grinex said it has suspended trading after losing more than 1 billion Russian rubles ($13.7 million) to...
YouTuber Coffeezilla raises concerns over Strategy’s Bitcoin-backed STRC stock
Stephen Findeisen, widely known as YouTuber Coffeezilla, has raised questions about Strategy’s Stretch preferred stock (STRC), saying its marketing may...
Cato Scholar Calls For Ending to Bitcoin Capital Gains Tax
Cato Institute, a US-based think tank, has argued the government should remove capital gains taxes on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies...
Allbirds stock moons 800% as it swaps sneakers for AI cloud
Allbirds (BIRD) shares took off more than 800% on Wednesday following news that it will sell its footwear business and...
OKX debuts X-Perps crypto derivatives platform for retail and institutional traders in Europe
Global fintech firm OKX has launched X-Perps, a regulated crypto derivatives product for retail and institutional traders across the European...
eToro Acquires Zengo in Self-Custody Push, CEO Predicts $250K Bitcoin
EToro said Wednesday it agreed to acquire self-custodial crypto wallet provider Zengo, deepening the trading platform’s push into onchain products...
eToro agrees to acquire Zengo for $70M to deepen digital asset strategy
Digital brokerage platform eToro has agreed to buy Zengo, a self-custodial crypto wallet provider, in a deal valued at about...
Bitmine books $3.8 billion quarterly loss on digital asset holdings
Bitmine Immersion Technologies said it incurred about $3.8 billion in paper losses tied to its digital asset portfolio in the...
Crypto Valley Captured 47% of Europe’s Blockchain Funding in 2025
Switzerland’s Crypto Valley captured 47% of European blockchain venture funding in 2025, raising $728 million across 31 deals, according to...
Bitwise CIO Says Bitcoin Addressable Market Could Exceed Gold
Bitcoin’s addressable market has the potential to surpass the $34 trillion gold market if it is eventually widely used as...
Crypto-Aligned Super PAC Begins to Endorse Candidates for US Midterms
Update (April 14 at 5:00 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include a late Monday FEC filing.Fellowship, a...
X Product Chief Hints at Crypto Plans, Sparks Speculation
X’s head of product Nikita Bier hinted Tuesday that the platform could launch a crypto-related product, prompting speculation across the...
Tether debuts self-custodial tether.wallet, enabling direct access to Bitcoin, digital dollars and gold
Tether has rolled out tether.wallet, a fully self-custodial digital wallet designed to simplify access to major digital assets including USDT,...
Germany’s exchange giant Deutsche Börse puts $200M into Kraken parent
Deutsche Börse AG announced Tuesday that it has pledged $200 million to Kraken parent Payward Inc., a move that cements...
Deutsche Börse to Invest $200M in Kraken’s Parent Company for 1.5% Stake
Deutsche Börse said Tuesday it will invest $200 million in Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, deepening a...
US Opens Compensation Claims for OneCoin Victims
The US Department of Justice has launched a compensation process for victims of the $4 billion crypto Ponzi scheme OneCoin,...
South Korea Orders Suspension, Fine for Crypto Exchange Coinone
South Korea’s third-largest cryptocurrency exchange, Coinone, is facing a fine and a partial business suspension over anti-money laundering lapses, according...
Bitcoin Rally Above Range Highs Continues To Stall: Here’s Why
Establishing a strong Bitcoin (BTC) uptrend in 2026 remains a challenge, as exchange-traded fund (ETF) flows have shown limited growth...
