Entrepreneur and former U.S. presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has predicted that Bitcoin will gain prominence in corporate treasuries as "the era of easy money ends." In a February 18 post on X, Ramaswamy declared that companies must "rethink...
Dave Portnoy, founder of Barstool Sports, has mounted his defense in response to the growing scrutiny over his involvement with a series of memecoins schemes, particularly $GREED, which saw a dramatic price collapse hours after its launch. Portnoy...
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, has launched Grok 3, the latest iteration of the model powering its chatbot. During its launch event, which was live-streamed on X on Wednesday, February 18, 2025, Musk and the xAI team...
Robinhood is preparing to introduce crypto products in Singapore before the end of 2025. Johann Kerbrat, vice president and general manager of Robinhood Crypto, revealed in an interview with Bloomberg that while no exact launch date has been...
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has proposed new guidelines to assess the competence of crypto-asset service providers' staff across the European Union. On February 17, 2025, the regulator published a consultation paper outlining proposed rules aimed...
Ben Chow, co-founder of the Solana-based decentralized exchange Meteora, has reportedly resigned from his position. The development was confirmed by Meow, the pseudonymous co-founder of both Meteora and Jupiter, in an X post on February 18. Chow's resignation...
U.S. federal authorities have charged six individuals in connection with a kidnapping case in Chicago that netted approximately $15 million in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies. The suspects, identified as Zehuan Wei, Fan Zhang, Huajing Yan, Shengnan Jiang,...
Coinbase is reportedly working on re-entering the Indian market over a year after ceasing operations. According to a report from TechCrunch, the U.S. headquartered crypto exchange has initiated discussions with Indian authorities, including the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU),...
Avalon Labs is setting its sights on launching the industry's first Bitcoin-backed debt public fund. The company announced on February 12, 2025, that it is in the preliminary stages of submitting an application to the U.S. Securities and...
Metaplanet Inc. has released its full-year 2024 financial report, revealing an unrealized gain of $36 million (5.46 billion yen) from its Bitcoin holdings. The company also stated that Bitcoin accounted for over 65% of its total revenue for...
