Moody’s Ratings is rolling out its credit ratings to Solana (SOL), allowing issuers of tokenized bonds and other fixed-income securities to embed the firm’s assessments directly into blockchain-based assets. The move, announced Wednesday in partnership with Solana-focused tokenization specialist Alphaledger, expands Moody’s Token Integration Engine (TIE) to a major public blockchain after its first deployment
Oman has taken one of the most direct steps by any government to bring bitcoin mining under formal state oversight, launching a mandatory national mining pool that licensed operators across the sultanate are required to join. The pool, Omanhash.com, was launched by Oman’s Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology and will run in cooperation
Illinois Governor Pritzker signed a 0.2% digital asset tax targeting crypto exchanges, transfers, and custody, with no equivalent for stocks. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has signed Article 3 of SB 3019, the Digital Asset Privilege Tax Act, into law. The legislation imposes a 0.2% tax on digital asset exchange, transfer, and custody activities. Illinois residents
Bitcoin has led a renewed risk-off move across crypto, breaking decisively below $80,000 for the first time since April 2025 and marking the deepest drawdown of the current cycle at nearly 40 percent from the October peak. Thin weekend liquidity accelerated the sell-off, triggering a $2.5 billion liquidation wave dominated by long positions, while US
In Bitcoin news today, BTC USD is trading above $66,000 on June 16 after the Bank of Japan (BOJ) raised its benchmark interest rate to 1% – the highest level since 1995, while simultaneously pausing its bond-taper program, a dovish offset that helped prevent an immediate risk-asset selloff and triggered $365M in short liquidations out
Eligible businesses may also continue to evaluate or pursue their own MiCA-focused crypto asset service provider (CASP) licenses in parallel while integrating BitGo Europe’s infrastructure, BitGo said. The final deadline for crypto firms to have transitioned to the MiCA regime is the end of this month, a regulatory reckoning that will force some firms to
A new framework from asset manager VanEck is drawing clear lines between Bitcoin miners that are genuinely transforming into artificial intelligence infrastructure providers and those that are still selling a story. All of it comes with a sobering price tag: a roughly $50 billion near-term funding gap standing between the sector’s pipeline ambitions and actual
Ethereum tops $1,700 as Bitmine buys $135.6M ETH, raising holdings to 5.62M ETH while traders target $1,850. Ethereum moved above the $1,700 level as buyers returned to the market. The move placed ETH back near a key short-term price zone. Traders are now watching whether Ethereum can hold this level as support. A steady reclaim
Bitcoin’s slide to the $60,000 handle marks the deepest drawdown of the current cycle, with losses now exceeding 52 percent from the October 2025 all-time high and January registering its weakest performance since 2022. The market has decisively lost multiple structural supports, including the short-term holder cost basis, the yearly open, and the True Market
The Cardano Van Rossem hard fork hit its mainnet go/no-go decision point on June 15, 2026 – the most consequential single day in the protocol’s Voltaire governance era, with network readiness metrics running well ahead of any prior upgrade and an official outcome expected imminently. Put simply, node adoption is strong enough that a green
