Spanish police arrested five people and charged four others in Denmark on Thursday for the kidnapping and murder of a man targeted for his cryptocurrency. The police operation dismantled what authorities described as a criminal group operating across borders to steal cryptocurrency. The investigation began in April when a woman arrived at a Málaga police…
Bitcoin BTC$89,049.68 drifted below $90,000 on Sunday during quiet trading, with investors showing limited appetite for risk ahead of a busy week of economic data and central bank events. The largest cryptocurrency was trading around $89,600 as of early afternoon UTC, down about 0.9% in 24 hours, marginally higher on the week and still down…
Walk into a gas station, grocery store, or convenience store today, and you might see a small orange kiosk glowing in the corner. What started as a curiosity has quietly become one of the most familiar in-person touchpoints in the digital economy: the crypto ATM. With close to 40,000 crypto ATMs operating worldwide, this technology…
YO Labs, the development team behind YO Protocol, has raised $10 million in a Series A round to expand its crypto yield optimization platform. Venture capital firm Foundation Capital led the round, joined by Coinbase Ventures, Scribble Ventures, and Launchpad Capital. The San Francisco-based company plans to use the funding to bring its yield optimization…
Barclays expects a more tepid year for crypto in 2026, with trading volumes trending down and investor enthusiasm waning. In a wide-ranging year-end report published Friday, the bank flagged a difficult backdrop for digital asset exchanges like Coinbase (COIN), citing unclear catalysts for renewed activity and a slow start to token adoption efforts. Retail-facing exchanges,…
In little over a month between October and November of 2025, the price of Bitcoin declined by more than 25%. In the very recent past, a major decline in such a short space of time would have sent investors and institutions — large and small — running for the hills. But while Bitcoin’s most recent…
Key takeaways HashKey is aiming to become Hong Kong’s first fully crypto-native IPO by listing 240.57 million shares under the city’s virtual asset regulatory regime. The business extends beyond a spot exchange by combining trading, custody, institutional staking, asset management and tokenization into a single regulated platform. Revenue is growing, but the company is still…
Bitcoin’s long-debated four-year cycle is still playing out, but the forces behind it have shifted away from the halving toward politics and liquidity, according to Markus Thielen, head of research at 10x Research. Speaking on The Wolf Of All Streets Podcast, Thielen argued that the idea of the four-year cycle being “broken” misses the point….
Michael Saylor’s pitch to integrate Bitcoin reserves into regulated banking Michael Saylor, executive chair of Strategy, has suggested that national governments consider developing a novel type of financial system: regulated digital banking platforms backed by Bitcoin reserves and tokenized credit tools. These comments, shared during Saylor’s keynote at the Bitcoin MENA conference in Abu Dhabi,…
The U.S. Senate negotiations over a crypto market structure bill — the industry’s top goal in its policy lobbying — hasn’t yet resolved several disagreements as the talks drift toward the holiday break, suggesting real progress may not happen before January. Legislative text has been circulating privately among industry insiders, and executives took a look…
