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Chipper Cash Scales Lightning in Africa: Over 50% of Bitcoin Transactions Now on Network
12.9.2025
Chipper Cash said its bitcoin payments platform, powered by Voltage’s lightning infrastructure, now routes over 50% of its bitcoin transactions via the lightning network, marking one of the largest real‑world lightning deployments to date. Founded in 2018, the pan‑African fintech offers...
Opensea and Coinbase One Partner to Deliver Surprise Shipments
11.9.2025
Coinbase announced on September 10, 2025, that non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Opensea is among the new partners joining the second wave of Coinbase One’s onchain benefits program. Opensea confirmed the partnership on X, saying Coinbase One members will receive a 5% boost when they “power...
Cake Reveals Challenge to Hardware Wallets: Cupcake Turns Spare Phones Into Free, Air‑gapped Cold Storage
11.9.2025
Cake Wallet has launched Cupcake, a free, open‑source app that turns a spare smartphone or tablet into an air‑gapped cold‑storage device to provide hardware‑level crypto security without shipping, cost, or personal data collection. Cupcake stores private keys offline while pairing with Cake Wallet...
Easyjet Parent Company Launches Simplified Bitcoin Buying App
11.9.2025
The Easy Group has launched easybitcoin.app, a mobile app powered by Uphold designed to simplify bitcoin buying and earning for everyday users, the company announced Sept. 9, 2025. The app offers three earning mechanisms—a 1% welcome bonus on the first $5,000 of recurring buys each month,...
Apecoin Expands to Solana: Boosting Multi-Chain Growth Through DeFi Partnerships
10.9.2025
Apecoin, the governance token associated with the Bored Ape Yacht Club non-fungible token (NFT) project, has officially expanded to the Solana blockchain, with the APE token synchronization completed on September 9, 2025. This move is part of the Rapid Apecoin Integration Deployment (R.A.I.D)...
Sygnum Integrates Bybit Into Bank-Grade off‑exchange Custody Network
10.9.2025
Swiss digital-asset bank Sygnum has integrated crypto exchange Bybit into its Sygnum Protect off-exchange custody platform, making Sygnum the first bank to offer off-exchange custody for Bybit and enabling spot and derivatives trading with assets held off-balance sheet in regulated, bank-grade...
Georgia Secures $100M Partnership to Advance Tokenized Real‑World Asset (RWA) Agriculture
10.9.2025
Farmway Technologies Inc. and Georgia’s Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture announced a partnership to direct up to $100 million over five years into Georgia’s agricultural sector, building on Farmway’s existing $20 million investment. The collaboration will fund advanced farming...
Kazakhstan Plans Strategic Crypto Reserve as Part of Rapid National Digitalization Agenda
9.9.2025
In his Address titled “Kazakhstan in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” delivered to the nation, President Kassym‑Jomart Tokayev unveiled a rapid digitalization and crypto‑asset agenda aimed at turning Kazakhstan into a fully digital country within three years. Tokayev called...
Major Banks Vie for Hong Kong’s Scarce Stablecoin Licenses
9.9.2025
Hong Kong’s financial regulator has received expressions of interest from at least 77 institutions seeking a limited number of initial stablecoin licenses, as major global and regional banks move to secure market position. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) and its Hong Kong arm, ICBC...
Opensea Introduces an NFT Reserve, Its Flagship Collection
9.9.2025
Opensea unveiled the Flagship Collection, a curated non‑fungible token (NFT) reserve backed by a commitment of more than $1 million to acquire, preserve and showcase digital art and cultural works deemed historically significant for the NFT ecosystem. The marketplace said the program will operate...
Michael Saylor Announces Strategy’s Growing BTC Fortune — Now 638K Coins
8.9.2025
On Monday, Sept. 8, 2025, the bitcoin treasury company added another 1,955 BTC, bringing its total holdings to 638,460 BTC. After teasing on Sunday with the Strategy Tracker chart that “Needs More Orange,” the firm’s executive, Michael Saylor, revealed the latest purchase on Monday morning....
TLGY and StablecoinX Secure $890 Million PIPE to Build ENA Treasury for Ethena Ecosystem
8.9.2025
TLGY Acquisition Corp. and StablecoinX Assets Inc. announced an additional $530 million in PIPE financing, bringing total committed PIPE proceeds to $890 million in support of their proposed business combination and a multi‑year treasury strategy focused on accumulating ENA, the Ethena protocol’s...
Capital B Secures Funding to Expand Bitcoin Holdings by About 60 BTC
8.9.2025
Capital B (The Blockchain Group, Euronext Growth Paris: ALCPB) announced a capital increase of about $5.9 million (€5 million) to advance its Bitcoin Treasury Company strategy. This is comprising of three transactions: an €1.8 million “ATM‑type” issuance at €1.72 per share under an agreement with...
Metaplanet Buys 136 BTC, Reports 487% YTD BTC Yield
8.9.2025
Japanese firm Metaplanet Inc. (TSE: 3350) reported the acquisition of 136 BTC for approximately $15.2 million at an average price of about $111,666 per bitcoin, raising its total holdings to 20,136 BTC, acquired for about $2.08 billion at an average cost of about $103,196 per bitcoin as...
Paxos Proposes USDH Stablecoin to Anchor Hyperliquid Ecosystem and Fund Buybacks
7.9.2025
Paxos proposed issuing USDH, a Hyperliquid‑first regulated stablecoin, aimed at accelerating adoption and enterprise integration across the Hyperliquid ecosystem. The Paxos Labs initiative, backed by Paxos’s decade of regulated stablecoin issuance and recent acquisition of Molecular Labs, would...
Boerse Stuttgart Launches Seturion, Pan‑European Blockchain Settlement Platform for Tokenized Assets
7.9.2025
Boerse Stuttgart Group launched Seturion, a pan‑European, blockchain‑based settlement platform aimed at unifying fragmented cross‑border settlement for tokenized assets and cutting costs for market participants. Open to banks, brokers, traditional and digital trading venues, and tokenization...
Canadian Solana Treasury Firm SOL Strategies Gains Nasdaq Access
6.9.2025
SOL Strategies is charting a course to the Nasdaq. The green light arrived Friday, with trading slated to begin Sept. 9. Headquartered in Canada, the solana ( SOL) treasury firm currently lists its shares on the Canadian Securities Exchange under the ticker HODL. That will soon change: its Nasdaq...
Abu Dhabi Grants GFO‑X Approval to Launch Digital Asset Exchange and Clearing House
5.9.2025
Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) has granted GFO‑X Group in‑principle approval to establish a digital asset exchange and clearing house, the two parties announced. The approval positions GFO‑X to offer regulated venues for trading, clearing and settlement of tokenized securities and digital assets...
ECB Pushes Digital Euro to Enhance Strategic Autonomy, Counter Foreign Stablecoins
5.9.2025
On September 4, 2025, ECB Executive Board Member Piero Cipollone addressed the European Parliament, advocating for a digital euro to strengthen Europe’s payment system resilience and strategic autonomy. Speaking in Brussels, Cipollone highlighted the digital euro’s role in reducing reliance...
Coinbase Boosts Max Leverage to 50x on International Perpetual Futures
5.9.2025
Crypto derivatives trading took a step forward as Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong shared on social media platform X on Sept. 3 that the exchange raised its maximum leverage on international perpetual futures from 20x to 50x. Armstrong posted: “We just bumped up the max leverage from 20x to 50x...