Bakkt Holdings has announced a strategic overhaul, shifting to a pure-play crypto infrastructure company following a $75 million capital raise. This move marks a decisive departure from its previous consumer-focused operations towards high-growth infrastructure solutions, including advanced stablecoin payments and Bitcoin treasury management. The company has completed the sale of ...
Košice, Slovakia, 12th August 2025, Chainwire
Jeff Bezos’s aerospace company, Blue Origin, has announced that customers can now pay for spaceflights using cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), as well as stablecoins USDT and USDC. This new payment option is enabled through a partnership with Shift4 Payments, a firm specializing in crypto transaction technology, ...
NEOS Investments has filed a new prospectus with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch a "High Income" Ethereum exchange-traded fund (ETF) that aims to boost yields by using indirect exposure and options trading strategies. Unlike traditional Ethereum funds that directly hold the cryptocurrency, this fund plans to ...
Do Kwon, co-founder of Terraform Labs, is preparing to change his plea in the high-profile U.S. criminal case related to the 2022 collapse of the TerraUSD (UST) stablecoin that wiped out approximately $40 billion in investor value. A federal judge in the Southern District of New York scheduled a hearing ...
MARA Holdings Inc. is embarking on a strategic transformation by moving beyond cryptocurrency mining into artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. The company recently announced a $168 million agreement to acquire a 64% majority stake in EDF’s Exaion, a French firm specializing in high-performance computing and cloud services tailored for AI applications. ...
KuCoin has become the first global cryptocurrency exchange to support UBS uMINT, a tokenized money market investment fund launched by UBS Asset Management and distributed through licensed platform DigiFT. The move allows institutional tokenholders to use UBS uMINT as off-exchange collateral for digital asset trading on KuCoin. Through DigiFT’s infrastructure, ...
Metaplanet Inc. has expanded its Bitcoin reserves to 18,113 BTC as of August 12, 2025, following the purchase of an additional 518 BTC at an average price of ¥17.54 million per coin, bringing the company’s total investment to ¥270.36 billion. The Tokyo-based firm has been executing an aggressive Bitcoin accumulation ...
Cryptocurrency started with a radical dream: give everyday people financial freedom, no middlemen, no barriers. Fast forward to 2025, and the question looms large: is crypto becoming too complicated for the average person? For many newcomers, navigating DeFi protocols, staking systems, wallets, and bridges feels more like solving a tech ...
Federico Carrone, a prominent Ethereum core developer widely known as “Fede’s Intern” on social media, has been released after being detained for 24 hours in Turkey over alleged ties to an Ethereum privacy protocol. Carrone revealed his release in a statement posted on X Monday, expressing relief and gratitude for ...
