Day: 1 August 2025

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor has urged U.S. regulators to establish a formal taxonomy for digital assets, warning that ongoing regulatory ambiguity threatens to stall innovation and hinder the nation’s competitiveness in the global crypto market. Speaking during Strategy’s second-quarter earnings call on Thursday, Saylor emphasized the urgent need to ...

A coalition of major players in the Solana ecosystem, including Jito Labs, VanEck, Bitwise, the Solana Foundation-backed Policy Institute, and Multicoin Capital, has formally appealed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to permit liquid staking for Solana-based exchange-traded products (ETPs). Liquid staking allows investors to stake tokens while ...

Covina, United States, 1st August 2025, Chainwire

Coinbase, the leading cryptocurrency exchange, announced it has increased its bitcoin holdings by 2,509 BTC in the second quarter of 2025 and continues to acquire more. CEO Brian Armstrong emphasized the company's long-term commitment to bitcoin, stating, "Coinbase is long bitcoin. Our holding increased, and we keep buying more." Although ...

After six months of development, Dubai-based RWA Inc. has launched its Private Investor Platform, a first-of-its-kind solution that takes early-stage startup investing fully on-chain. Traditionally, this market has been reserved for venture capital firms and wealthy investors with deep pockets and access to exclusive networks. Now, RWA Inc. has created ...

Metaplanet Inc. has announced plans to amend its Articles of Incorporation and file a shelf registration for the potential issuance of Class A and Class B Perpetual Preferred Shares. The move, approved by the company’s board, will be presented at an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) scheduled for September 1, 2025. ...

Cryptocurrency is rapidly moving from the fringes of corporate finance to the centre of boardroom discussions, with nearly 25% of North American chief financial officers (CFOs) expecting their finance functions to integrate digital assets within the next two years, according to Deloitte’s latest CFO Signals survey. The poll, conducted between ...

Bitcoin’s network is consuming electricity at an unprecedented rate even as miners face declining revenue due to sluggish transaction activity, according to a new report from GoMining Institutional. The report, based on data from CoinMetrics Labs, shows that Bitcoin’s estimated energy use surged from 15.6 gigawatts in January 2024 to ...

Worldwide Stablecoin Payment Network (WSPN) has launched Global Payment 1.0, an API-based payment infrastructure designed to connect stablecoins and fiat currencies for institutional clients. The platform provides a single interface for crypto-to-fiat conversions, removing the complexity that has traditionally slowed institutional adoption of digital assets. The system supports USDT, USDC, ...

KuCoin Ventures has made a strategic investment in Stable, a new Layer 1 blockchain designed exclusively for stablecoin payments and settlement, positioning itself as the backbone for a global stablecoin clearing network. Stable, developed with backing from Tether and Bitfinex, has also secured funding from Paolo Ardoino, Bitfinex’s chief technology ...