A couple prominent Bitcoin adoption leaders gathered on the Nakamoto Stage at The Bitcoin 2026 Conference, making the case that an unusual industry dynamic — one where direct competitors openly collaborate — may be the defining feature of the current institutional push into the digital asset. The panel featured David Bailey, CEO of Nakamoto Inc.,
Toku adds yield to stablecoin payroll via Paxos Labs, turning salaries into income-generating assets while maintaining user custody. Crypto payroll is evolving into a tool for both payments and passive income. Toku now enables employees to earn yield on their salaries the moment they are paid through its integration with Paxos Labs’ Amplify platform. Wages
In Cardano news today, the Charles Hoskinson-led network’s top NFT marketplace, JPG Store, entered ‘Restriction Mode’ on April 23 and is scheduled to shut down completely on May 23, the same week Cardano voters are deciding whether to funnel $12M into a Bitcoin DeFi infrastructure project. The timing is uncomfortable in a way that goes
Robinhood (HOOD) missed its first-quarter earnings and revenue estimates after reporting a sharp decline in crypto trading revenue, even as growth in other parts of its business pushed overall revenue higher. The popular trading platform reported first-quarter adjusted earnings per share of $0.38, missing Wall Street’s $0.39 estimate, according to FactSet data. While the company
Michael Saylor, founder and executive chairman of Strategy, took the Nakamoto Stage at Bitcoin 2026 on Tuesday to argue that a nine-month-old preferred stock instrument has become the fastest-growing credit product in the world — and that its expansion is only getting started. The keynote, framed around what Saylor calls digital credit, was a structured
Eightco treasury composition as of April 27, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $25M Beast Industries equity, 11,068 ETH, 283 million WLD holdings, and $121M cash and equivalents World offers a solution to the ‘double human’ problem in a world proliferating with deepfakes and agentic agents Tinder, Zoom, Docusign, Vercel, Browserbase, and Exa to integrate Proof
Bitbank and EPOS Card launch Japan’s first crypto-linked credit card, offering 0.5% crypto cashback on everyday purchases via Visa. Japan’s cryptocurrency sector just hit a new milestone. Bitbank Co., Ltd. has teamed up with EPOS Card Co., Ltd. to launch the “EPOS CRYPTO Card for bitbank.” The card went live on April 27, 2026. It
AFP Protección, Colombia’s second-largest pension fund administrator, managing approximately $55Bn across more than 8.5 million clients, has launched a new portfolio product that includes Colombia Bitcoin exposure, marking the second major Colombian pension institution to make this move in under a year. The detail most headlines are missing, though, is that this isn’t a fund
Imagine a tireless analyst who works around the clock, cross-referencing a company’s onchain purchasing patterns with satellite imagery of its warehouses, correlating its job postings with its patent filings, and mapping its entire supply chain by watching the flow of smart contract payments. This analyst never sleeps, never loses focus and costs almost nothing to
Three members of Congress positioned digital asset regulation as a matter of national security and economic competition during a panel discussion at The Bitcoin 2026 Conference in Las Vegas on Monday. Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa), Zach Nunn (R-Iowa), and Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) spoke on “The Bitcoin Bloc: A New Force in American Politics,” moderated by
