TL;DR: PowerCompute mined 8.1 BTC in September, up 37% from a year earlier. Its month-end Bitcoin holdings fell to 63.7 BTC after the company used 267.4 BTC to help retire a $22.45 million Bitcoin-backed credit facility, leaving most of its secured debt eliminated. PowerCompute’s latest mining update is a useful reminder that a corporate Bitcoin …
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TL;DR: BNY has expanded its Digital Asset Custody platform to selected institutional clients across the European Union under MiCA. The move follows the addition of its European banking entity to the ESMA MiCA register and gives one of the world’s largest custody banks a regulated route to hold and administer crypto assets in the region. …
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TL;DR: Strategy will report third-quarter 2026 results after US markets close on October 29 and hold a live webinar at 5 p.m. Eastern Time. The update will give investors the next full financial snapshot of the world’s largest corporate Bitcoin treasury. The most closely watched corporate Bitcoin balance sheet has a date for its next …
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The letter follows a report by the Democratic investigators last month alleging Tether’s USDT has become a key tool for Iran’s shadow banking network.
Despite ongoing bans, China has seen a big surge in peer-to-peer stablecoin use. New figures show South Korea’s $450B crypto economy is the largest in East Asia. The number of unique wallets sending peer-to-peer (P2P) stablecoin transactions in China grew 43-fold between the first quarter of 2024 and the second quarter of 2026, according to …
Securitize’s new offering gives eligible investors access to tokenized shares of 12 US companies, with dividend and voting rights and plans for round-the-clock trading. Securitize shares climbed about 10% Thursday as the company launched tokenized versions of major US stocks on Solana, offering eligible investors exposure to equities backed by underlying shares with dividend and …
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According to the league, Kalshi and other prediction markets “threaten game integrity” because many event contracts are “highly susceptible to manipulation.” The National Football League (NFL) largely sided with New Jersey officials in their petition for the Supreme Court to consider a case on sports bets through prediction markets platforms In an amicus brief filed …
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A disgruntled former core infrastructure engineer at a New Jersey industrial company sabotaged the firm’s computer network and extorted employees with a large Bitcoin (BTC) ransom demand. The U.S. Department of Justice says 59-year-old Missouri man Daniel Rhyne pleaded guilty to a two-count information that charged him with extortion in relation to a threat to …
Federal prosecutors have secured an eight-year prison sentence for the leader of a scheme that stole thousands of checks from U.S. Postal Service collection boxes and deposited millions in altered funds. Michael Edwards, 31, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl in the Southern District of New York, says the …
October 8th, 2026 – Tallinn, Estonia class=”ql-align-center”>SaaS and eCommerce increased their combined share from 48.26% to 55.54%, while Trading moved from 14.07% to 13.15%. Businesses can build stablecoin infrastructure around the wrong problem. The mistake is treating stablecoins primarily as a coin-and-network decision. For a digital business, they may need to support a much broader …
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October 6th, 2026 – Singapore, Singapore Travala has teamed up with BNB Chain and Binance Pay to launch a native AI travel booking agent directly on Travala that lets travellers search and book hotels using only a BNB Smart Chain (BSC) wallet with no setup required. To use the agent, travellers simply open the AI …
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A Michigan caregiver has been arrested after an 86-year-old Livonia woman and her family say the aide stole nearly $24,000 through repeated ATM withdrawals and unauthorized credit card charges. Livonia police took the woman into custody early Tuesday afternoon, reports ClickOnDetroit. Police have not named the caregiver because she has not yet been charged. Cynthia …
Blockchain analysts identified the US government wallet tied to the recovery of funds from the Bitfinex hack. The US government completed another major transaction involving seized cryptocurrency hours after moving a significant amount of Bitcoin to a Coinbase Prime wallet. Blockchain data from Wednesday showed that a wallet associated with crypto seized by the US …
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Tokenization offers structural advantages to financial institutions and helps asset managers reach new markets, according to Fidelity’s head of digital asset strategists. Financial institutions are increasingly moving toward an onchain future with tokenization initiatives which provide access to new markets and offer structural advantages compared to traditional investment products, according to Matthew Horne, head of …
Crypto lending has risen by 55% since July, but now has to deal with the dangers of AI assisted hacks, and risks cascading through interlinked protocols. Here’s how to stay safe. As the charts flip from red to green, crypto lending has seen a resurgence of interest after a particularly dismal second quarter. Figures from …
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