Tokyo-listed investment firm Metaplanet has continued to pursue its Bitcoin accumulation strategy aggressively. The company recently purchased 38.464 Bitcoin, valued at approximately 300 million yen ($2 million), bringing its total Bitcoin holdings to 398.832 BTC, worth around 3.75...
Swiss crypto bank Amina is seeking approval for a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) licence from the Austrian Financial Market Authority, according to CEO Franz Bergmüller. In a recent interview, Bergmüller stated that the bank is looking to...
HTX (formerly Huobi) has announced that it will be removing several USDD trading pairs following recent concerns about the stablecoin's backing and significant collateral withdrawals by the TRON DAO Reserve. In a press release dated September 9, the...
U.S. Senate majority leader, Senator Chuck Schumer, has been accused of excluding cryptocurrency from his legislative priorities contrary to his earlier commitment to do so this year. In a recent X post, Fox News journalist Eleanor Terrett pointed...
Nigeria's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reportedly preparing to initiate enforcement measures against businesses and individuals participating in unregulated cryptocurrency transactions. Emomotimi Agama, Director-General of the agency, announced that it would soon take action against entities offering...
The Spanish multinational banking giant BBVA has begun offering Circle’s USDC stablecoin to its high-profile clients in its Swiss division. BBVA’s institutional and private banking clients in Switzerland can now manage USDC alongside their traditional investments on a...
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has highlighted Japan as a critical market for the company's stablecoin plans, emphasizing the country's supportive regulatory environment. In a recent interview with Bloomberg, Garlinghouse emphasized the global potential for stablecoins and Ripple's ambitions...
Binance is one step closer to becoming Kazakhstan's first fully regulated crypto exchange. According to a September 6 announcement, Binance Kazakhstan, the exchange's local branch, has received "formal consent" for a full regulatory license from the Astana Financial...
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis has raised concerns about the potential use of domestic crypto exchanges by the Russian government to evade international sanctions. In a recent report, the firm highlighted two crypto platforms, Garantex and Exved, as potential...
Pseudonymous blockchain investigator ZachXBT has raised concerns about the quality of block explorers for numerous Layer 1 blockchain networks. In a September 5 post on social media platform X, ZachXBT argued that most block explorers outside of Ethereum’s...
