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PACT, an on-chain credit and payments infrastructure protocol built on Aptos, announced that its native token, $PACT, is now supported on Kraken, MEXC, and Gate. The project embeds credit systems into blockchain rails and supports fintech lenders, asset managers, and financial institutions across emerging markets. The token functions as the governa…
Pipe Network has introduced SolanaCDN, a free, open-source validator client for Solana that includes an optional content-delivery acceleration layer. Built as a fork of Anza’s Agave, the client leverages Pipe’s global overlay of more than 35,000 points-of-presence to cut cross-region shred propagation latency to a P50 of roughly 78ms — a 3.8x impro…
BTCC said its new flexible savings product, BTCC Earn, has drawn over 10,000 users and more than 50 million USDT in subscriptions within two weeks of launch. The exchange also published its February 2026 Proof of Reserves showing a total reserve ratio of 132%, with coverage above 100% for all tracked cryptocurrencies.
Stablecoins are increasingly used as practical money-management tools, BVNK co-founder Chris Harmse tells reporter Nina Shah, citing data that show transactional behavior rather than speculation. Lower fees, faster settlement and global access are driving adoption, with market size and supply expanding materially. Regulators, banks and critics rema…
Blockchain for Good Alliance (BGA) has designated Token Tails as its top incubation project for 2025, recognising the initiative for building a blockchain-integrated infrastructure intended to generate continuous, verifiable funding for stray animal shelters. The selection at BGAwards 2025 in Copenhagen secures grant funding, ecosystem access, and …
21shares launched TSUI, a spot SUI ETF, on the Nasdaq on February 24, 2026, giving U.S. investors regulated, high-liquidity access to the Sui token through standard brokerage accounts. The ETF follows earlier U.S. offerings tied to SUI from 21shares and arrives amid growing institutional activity in the Sui ecosystem. Sui’s architecture, built on t…
<p>Bitcoin extended a recent slide on Tuesday, falling nearly 4% to around $63,131 and wiping out roughly 50% of the gains from its early-October record high. Traders pointed to uncertainty over U.S. tariff policy, heavy selling by both institutional and retail participants, and on-chain flows from large holders as the main drivers of the rout. Mos…
Grey has expanded its business banking platform to include USD corporate accounts, bulk payment capabilities and support for the USDC stablecoin. The move is intended to let businesses receive international payments, manage cross-border transactions and reduce costs tied to traditional international banking, with payouts available to more than 170 …
An independent legal analysis from Gunnercooke GmbH concludes that the SAL token qualifies as an "Other Crypto-Asset" under the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) and that its privacy features do not create a legal bar under Article 76(3) to listing on MiCAR-authorised exchanges. The opinion says exchanges can identify holders and revie…
Bitcoin traded essentially flat on Sunday, holding close to the $68,000 level after earlier volatility tied to a tariff announcement faded. The largest cryptocurrency was last reported up about 0.18% at $68,212.2, trading inside a narrow band as investors awaited clearer macro guidance and fresh catalysts. Markets continue to weigh uncertainty arou…
Cryptocurrency prices traded in a narrow band late in the week as participants awaited key U.S. inflation and GDP releases. Nexo analyst Iliya Kalchev said macro uncertainty, hawkish Federal Reserve signals and rising geopolitical tensions have kept investors cautious, prompting ETF outflows and limiting upside for liquidity-sensitive digital asset…
Bitcoin dropped momentarily after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would raise a temporary worldwide tariff from 10% to 15%, then recovered later in the trading session and remained up 0.7%. Traders monitored the 24/7 bitcoin market for signs of how broader markets would respond when most exchanges reopen over the weekend and into Monday.
Bitcoin posted a modest gain on Friday, recovering to $67,843.1 by 01:21 ET (06:21 GMT) amid dip-buying after recent declines. The advance was small compared with broader losses: the largest cryptocurrency is set for a weekly drop of about 2.8%, has lost roughly 25% so far in 2026 and has declined in five of the past seven weeks. Market participant…
Sai introduced Sai Perps, a perpetuals trading venue that seeks to combine the execution speed and user experience of centralized exchanges with the transparency and settlement guarantees provided by onchain infrastructure. The launch includes gasless transactions and a one-month trading competition running February 18 through March 19, 2026, with …
Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Investment Co. and its unit, the Abu Dhabi Investment Council (ADIC), raised their holdings in BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF in the fourth quarter of 2025, increasing collective exposure to Bitcoin-linked assets even as Bitcoin and related ETFs suffered significant price declines.
MYX has closed a strategic financing round led by Consensys, with Systemic Ventures and Consensys’s VC arm participating. The capital will support research and development of MYX’s execution and risk systems, its chain abstraction framework, and the deployment of MYX V2, which promises one-click, gasless trades, more predictable pricing, and an inf…
Bitcoin extended its recent pullback on Wednesday, trading below $68,000 as investors awaited key U.S. economic releases and Federal Reserve commentary. Corporate buyer Strategy Inc (NASDAQ:MSTR) disclosed another sizable purchase of bitcoin, but broader market appetite for risk assets remained subdued, leaving most altcoins nursing losses.
Public Masterpiece, a Cyprus real-world asset tokenization firm, has announced PMT Chain, a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain focused on authenticating and tokenizing physical assets. The company has also repositioned the PMT brand to mean Public Masterpiece Technology. The network centers on a UAE-based Certification Hub staffed by art experts and …
Nexo has announced a formal relaunch of its Yield, Exchange, Loyalty and Crypto-backed Credit Lines in the United States, working with regulated partners and using Bakkt for digital asset trading infrastructure. The move re-establishes Nexo’s U.S. operations with a compliance-focused structure and offers a suite of regulated services designed for p…
Bitcoin declined to $68,409.70 early Monday, extending a run of losses that has now lasted four consecutive weeks. The pullback followed a brief weekend move toward $70,000 and came amid broader weakness across major cryptocurrencies as investor appetite for speculative assets wanes in the face of interest-rate uncertainty. Corporate holder Strateg…
Bitcoin traded around $66,000 on Friday and was positioned to register a fourth consecutive weekly loss amid broad risk-off sentiment. The cryptocurrency last changed hands 1.1% lower at $66,464.6 by 02:24 ET (07:24 GMT) after dipping toward $65,000 in the prior session. Markets are focused on the U.S. Consumer Price Index report and have been infl…
<p>Standard Chartered's digital assets research head, Geoff Kendrick, has trimmed near-term price forecasts for cryptocurrencies, warning of additional downside in the coming months. Kendrick flagged the potential for Bitcoin to fall to about $50,000 and Ethereum to drop toward $1,400, citing orderly but significant ETF outflows, an average ETF pur…
BYDFi participated as a sponsor of Solana Accelerate APAC during Consensus Hong Kong 2026 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The exchange used the forum to engage with Solana-native teams and users, present its CEX + DEX dual-engine model and MoonX onchain trading engine, and highlight its operational protections including over 1:1 …
Flipster FZE has obtained in-principle approval from Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA), allowing the company to advance toward offering regulated virtual asset services with spot trading as its initial product. The milestone dovetails with Flipster's emphasis on compliance, including a partnership with Chainalysis, and follows the …
Ault Capital Group has launched the public testnet for Ault Blockchain, a Cosmos SDK Layer 1 with full Ethereum Virtual Machine compatibility built for trading, settlement, and institutional onchain workloads. The testnet provides a live environment for developers, validators, and infrastructure operators to assess core functionality. Governance wi…
