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Sofi Partners With Lightspark to Launch Lightning-Enabled International Money Transfers
20.8.2025
Sofi (NASDAQ: SOFI) has announced the launch of its international money transfer service, allowing members to send funds abroad directly from the Sofi app with lower fees and faster delivery than traditional remittance providers. The service will utilize technology from Lightspark, which leverages...
Robinhood Launches Football Prediction Markets Through Kalshi
20.8.2025
Robinhood has announced the launch of pro and college football prediction markets within the app, allowing customers to trade on the outcomes of popular football games. Since the introduction of prediction markets last year, over 2 billion contracts have been traded on the platform. The new markets...
Harvard Professor and Ex-IMF Chief Economist Offers Excuses for Misjudging Bitcoin a Decade Ago
20.8.2025
In a recent social media post, Kenneth Rogoff, a former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), reflected on his earlier prediction that bitcoin was more likely to be valued at $100 than $100,000. Rogoff, a Professor of Economics at Harvard University, acknowledged that...
Informal Systems’ Malachite Acquired by Circle to Power New Arc Blockchain Network for Stablecoin Finance
20.8.2025
Informal Systems has announced the acquisition of its high-performance consensus engine, Malachite, by Circle Internet Group, Inc. (NYSE: CRCL) to support the launch of Arc1, a new Layer-1 blockchain network designed specifically for stablecoin finance. The Arc network is set to debut in testnet...
Publicly-Traded BTCS Announces Ethereum Dividend and Loyalty Payment for Shareholders
19.8.2025
BTCS, a publicly traded blockchain technology company (Nasdaq: BTCS), has announced a one-time blockchain dividend, or “Bividend,” of $0.05 per share to be paid in ethereum ( ETH) to shareholders of record on September 26, 2025. Additionally, the company is offering a $0.35 per share loyalty...
Real-World Asset Tokenization Firm Figure to Go Public on Nasdaq Under Ticker ‘FIGR’
19.8.2025
Blockchain-native capital marketplace Figure has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering (IPO) on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol FIGR. The company is offering shares of its Class A common stock, with the initial public offering price...
Strategy Acquires 430 Bitcoin, Bolstering Holdings to 629,376 BTC
18.8.2025
Strategy Inc. said it acquired 430 bitcoin between Aug. 11–17, 2025, spending $51.4 million at an average price of $119,666 per BTC, bringing its total holdings to 629,376 bitcoin worth approximately $46.15 billion. The purchases were funded entirely by net proceeds from recent sales of preferred...
Capital B Announces Over $2.5 Million Capital Increase, Fully Subscribed by Adam Back, to Expand Bitcoin Holdings
18.8.2025
Puteaux, August 18, 2025: Capital B, a European Bitcoin Treasury Company listed on Euronext Growth Paris, has announced a capital increase of approximately $2.57 million (€2.2 million), fully subscribed by Adam Back. This capital infusion is expected to facilitate the acquisition of approximately...
Nebraska Man Sentenced to 1-Year Prison for $3.5M Cryptojacking Scheme
18.8.2025
Charles O. Parks III, also known as “CP3O,” was sentenced today in federal court in Brooklyn by U.S. District Judge Eric Komitee to one year and one day in prison for operating a large-scale illegal cryptojacking scheme in which he defrauded two cloud computing providers of over $3.5 million...
Japan’s FSA to Approve First Yen-Denominated Stablecoin, JPYC, This Autumn
18.8.2025
Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) is set to approve the issuance of the country’s first yen-denominated stablecoin, JPYC, this autumn, with the fintech firm JPYC based in Chiyoda, Tokyo, expected to be registered as a funds transfer service by the end of August. The stablecoin...
Metaplanet Adds 775 Bitcoin, Total Holdings Reach 18,888 BTC
18.8.2025
Metaplanet Inc. (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 3350) announced the purchase of an additional 775 bitcoin at an average price of ¥17,720,023 per coin (totaling ¥13.733 billion), bringing its cumulative holdings to 18,888 bitcoin at an overall average cost of ¥15,041,118 (aggregate ¥284.097 billion)....
Thailand to Allow Foreign Visitors to Convert Crypto for Payments
18.8.2025
The Thai government is launching a new initiative called “Touristdigipay” on Aug.18, to boost its tourism sector. The scheme allows foreign tourists to convert their cryptocurrencies into Thai Baht to use for payments. The program is a direct response to a decline in tourism...
EV Startup Faraday Future Launches $10 Billion Crypto Strategy
18.8.2025
Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. announced on August 17, 2025, the launch of its “EAI + Crypto” Dual-Flywheel & Dual-Bridge Ecosystem Strategy, aiming to integrate artificial intelligence (AI)-driven electric vehicles (EVs) with Web3 technologies and cryptocurrency...
Gemini Exchange Files S-1 for Proposed Nasdaq IPO Under Ticker ‘GEMI’
17.8.2025
Gemini Space Station, Inc. (Gemini Exchange) filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on August 15, 2025, for a proposed initial public offering (IPO) of its Class A common stock, with the number of shares and price range yet to be determined...
Canary Capital’s McClurg Sees Bitcoin Soaring to $150K Before Inevitable Downturn
17.8.2025
Bitcoin could reach $150,000 before facing a bear market, Canary Capital CEO Steven McClurg said in a recent interview. The Canary CEO cited a confluence of sustained inflows into spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs)—projected at over $1 billion weekly—a persistently dovish Federal Reserve...
Trump-Backed Miner Seeks Asian Bitcoin Acquisitions
16.8.2025
Financial Times (FT) reports that American Bitcoin, a U.S. cryptocurrency miner backed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, is actively seeking acquisitions of listed companies in Japan and potentially Hong Kong to amass bitcoin reserves. According to three unnamed sources speaking with FT,...
Strategy Makes It Official—Legal Name Switch Hints at Bigger Moves
15.8.2025
Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR/STRK/STRF/STRD/STRC) announced on Aug. 14 that it has officially changed its legal name from Microstrategy Inc. to Strategy Inc., effective Aug. 11, 2025. This formal transition completes the rebranding initiative first unveiled on Feb. 5, 2025, and solidifies...
Peter Thiel-Backed Bullish Exchange Successfully Debuts on the New York Stock Exchange
14.8.2025
Bullish, a cryptocurrency exchange backed by Peter Thiel, successfully debuted on the New York Stock Exchange on August 13, 2025, raising approximately $1.1 billion in its initial public offering (IPO). The company priced its shares at $37, above the expected range of $32 to $33, and opened at...
Falconx Expands Prime Connect With Copper Clearloop Integration
14.8.2025
Falconx has announced the expansion of its Prime Connect product through an integration with Copper’s Clearloop network, enhancing off-exchange settlement capabilities for its Direct Market Access (DMA) clients trading on Bybit. This integration allows clients to custody their assets...
Bitcoin Breaks $123K as Momentum Builds
14.8.2025
Bitcoin blasted past the $123,000 mark on Wednesday, breaking that barrier for the first time since July 14, 2025. On Aug. 13, bitcoin’s climb added 2.6% against the U.S. dollar, stacking up a 6.2% gain over the past seven days. The world’s largest crypto by market value now boasts a staggering...