Binance blocks transactions with 11 crypto platforms from Aug. 23 this year. HTX joins Binance’s restricted list as regulatory scrutiny intensifies. New restrictions expand earlier August compliance actions across platforms. Binance will stop processing transactions involving 11 crypto platforms beginning August 23 following recent regulatory developments. The move expands earlier restrictions introduced this month and

Bitcoin’s surge this week to $76,000, put it at its highest level in 70 days, and coincides with the 15 April ex-dividend date for the Strategy Variable Rate Perpetual Stretch Preferred Shares (STRC). We believe this significant price appreciation is attributable to a confluence of multiple layered factors.  The initial catalyst was a geopolitical repricing

The contracts traded just 1.6% apart on average when both markets were active, and traded near $92 and $94 most recently, translating to a more than 300% upside from the IPO price. That fourfold premium also means Unitree could have a blockbuster debut and still leave leveraged bulls nursing steep losses. “Unitree can open at

Bitcoiners have been warned after France’s tax administration confirmed that hackers breached its information system, exposing sensitive financial and personal data belonging to hundreds of thousands of taxpayers and businesses. Writing on X on Friday, Bitcoin developer Jameson Lopp said the leak was “more bad news for Bitcoiners living in the leading country for wrench

SEC postponed its Aug. 14 crypto rules meeting after a last-minute cancellation. Proposed crypto offering framework remains under review despite the delayed vote. Congress still weighs the Clarity Act as SEC pursues broader digital asset reforms. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has postponed a key meeting on proposed crypto offering rules after canceling the

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, British Virgin Islands – April 16, 2026 – Bitfinex (https://www.bitfinex.com/), a premier digital asset trading platform, announced the support for deposits and withdrawals of XAUT0 on Celo. XAUT0 is a tokenised gold token that merges the value of physical gold with blockchain’s accessibility, enabling instant and borderless ownership of the world’s most

In the first six months of 2026, the crypto industry raised $11.2 billion. Not one dollar of it went to the permissionless, ungoverned experiments that digital assets were supposed to be built on. “There is an irony at the heart of crypto, and it took an $11.2 billion dataset to make it obvious,” said Dubai-based

Bitcoin is the most important asset in two of Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds, according to regulatory filings.  Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment Company disclosed Friday that it held a $490 million stake in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust — the second-largest single holding across its entire 13F portfolio.  And a Thursday filing from the Abu Dhabi

Ethereum replaces Poseidon with SHA and BLAKE for future Layer 1 upgrades. Binary-field SNARK advances make traditional hash functions practical again. The roadmap targets leanVM in 2027 with wider deployments planned for 2028. The Ethereum Foundation is changing its long-term cryptography strategy by replacing Poseidon with SHA and BLAKE for Layer 1 development. The shift

AI agents can now do the work. The problem is paying for it. The Lightning Network gives autonomous software a Bitcoin-native way to settle small obligations at high frequency — fast and cheap enough to sit inside execution, so an agent can pay for data, compute or API access the moment it needs it, without