Grayscale Investments has filed an amended registration statement for its proposed spot NEAR ETF. Summary Grayscale amended its spot NEAR ETF filing and added SEC Registration No. 333-292834. BitGo replaced Coinbase Custody as primary custodian, while Coinbase remains an additional custodian. The filing updated NEAR data, including 1.3 billion circulating tokens and a $1.5 billion
Traditional collateral management still relies on inefficient, outdated systems that cost financial institutions millions each year in unnecessary operational expense and lost interest earnings. Tokenisation offers a potential fix — but only when it makes assets genuinely mobile and deployable across workflows, rather than simply representing value on-chain. With technical, operational and regulatory hurdles now
Canaan has achieved a record fleet efficiency of 17.9 J/TH in North America even as roughly 36% of its installed mining capacity remained inactive at the end of May. Summary Canaan’s North American mining fleet reached a record efficiency of 17.9 J/TH in May, improving 11% year-over-year. Despite the efficiency gains, only 6.47 EH/s of
Charles Hoskinson has initiated a ‘great migration’, moving the Cardano core discussions from X to dedicated Discord channels to escape the ‘drama, lies, and endless rage’ of social media. Critics argue this is censorship masquerading as community management, highlighting the irony of a decentralized project steering discussions into a private, moderated space. Dropping by to
A Seychelles court judgment tied to delisted CHP tokens has placed KuCoin under renewed legal scrutiny. Summary A Seychelles court ordered KuCoin to compensate a Swiss investor over 21 million delisted CHP tokens. The investor claims KuCoin has not paid the judgment or participated in related court proceedings. The ruling rejected KuCoin’s claim that unwithdrawn
The cryptocurrency market reached its definitive bottom for the currency cycle, Standard Chartered Analyst Geoffrey Kendrick said in a note on Friday. The cycle low is now locked in at $59,000 for bitcoin, a 53% drop from its Oct. 6 all-time high of $126,000, according to Kendrick. “Winter is over. Welcome back to crypto Spring,
Coinbase has unveiled the next stage of its expansion strategy, with plans to combine trading, lending, payments, derivatives, and AI-powered services into a single financial platform. Summary Coinbase will unveil the next phase of its “Everything Exchange” strategy on June 16. New products span AI trading agents, prediction markets, stocks, lending, and DeFi services. Bernstein
Standard Chartered’s head of digital asset research, Geoff Kendrick, declared Friday that the crypto market has seen its cycle low, with Bitcoin’s recent dip to approximately $59,000 marking the bottom of the latest downturn — a 53% drawdown from its October all-time high of $126,000. “Winter is over. Welcome back to crypto spring,” Kendrick wrote
Litecoin has drawn fresh attention as large holders increased their positions while transaction activity stayed weak. Summary Santiment data showed Litecoin whale and shark wallets increased by 42 over five months. LitVM renewed the Litecoin discussion as the project seeks to bring smart contracts through zkLTC. Litecoin rose 1.28% to $42.95 after recovering from lows
ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands, June 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AFX, a high-performance sovereign L1 purpose-built for decentralized derivatives, announced that industry veteran Ken C has joined the protocol as Head of Growth, reinforcing AFX’s commitment to expanding its global trading ecosystem and accelerating adoption of on-chain derivatives infrastructure. Ken brings more than nine years of
