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BitGo Launches Lightning Earn for Institutions to Earn Bitcoin Routing Fees

BitGo is opening the Lightning Network to institutional Bitcoin holders with a new product that lets treasuries earn BTC-denominated routing fees without giving up custody, governance, or compliance controls. Lightning Earn lets institutions allocate BTC to Lightning routing channels Fees are paid in Bitcoin, not tokens, staking rewards, or synthetic yield Amboss Technologies’ Rails manages […]

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Bitcoin Profitability Reset Looms as Supply in Profit Drops Toward 45%

Bitcoin Market Faces A Potential Profitability Reset As More Coins Slip Out Of Profit Bitcoin is under fresh pressure as BTC trades around $61,000 and more of the circulating supply slips out of profit. On-chain data suggests the market may be entering a painful but potentially healthy reset phase, where weak hands get flushed and […]

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Digital Asset Raises $355M for Canton Network as Wall Street Bets on Tokenization

Digital Asset Holdings has hauled in $355 million in fresh funding, led by a16z crypto, as Wall Street keeps shoveling money into blockchain infrastructure built for regulated finance, tokenized assets, and privacy-first settlement. $355 million raised in a new funding round a16z crypto led the round with a $100 million contribution Canton Network targets tokenized […]

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Bitcoin Mining Faces 10.3% Difficulty Drop as Miner Squeeze Deepens

Miners’ Revenue Squeeze Set to Force Bitcoin’s Biggest Network Correction Since 2021 Bitcoin mining is headed for one of its sharpest difficulty drops ever as falling BTC prices squeeze miner margins and push weaker operators offline. That’s painful for miners, but it’s also Bitcoin doing what Bitcoin was built to do: self-correct without asking permission. […]

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TurboFlow Integrates Chainlink for Continuous Bitcoin, Gold and Ethereum Prediction Markets

TurboFlow has integrated Chainlink to power continuous prediction markets for gold, Bitcoin, and Ethereum, pushing more real-time data and automated settlement into onchain trading without a centralized babysitter pulling the strings. TurboFlow adopts Chainlink for oracle-backed market data. Continuous prediction markets update live instead of settling only at a fixed end point. Gold, Bitcoin, and […]

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Coinbase, MassPay Partner for USDC Cross-Border Payouts in 180 Countries

MassPay and Coinbase are joining forces to take a proper swing at one of finance’s most annoying relics: expensive, slow cross-border wires. The partnership uses USDC-based settlement to move enterprise payouts across 180 countries with less friction, less capital trapped in limbo, and fewer reasons for businesses to hate international payments. USDC-based cross-border payouts Enterprise […]

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South Korea Teams Up With Chainalysis to Hunt Crypto Crime and DPRK Hackers

South Korea is stepping up its crypto-crime crackdown, and Chainalysis is now part of the toolkit. The blockchain analytics firm has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) to help investigators track illicit virtual asset flows, with North Korea-linked theft and laundering squarely in the crosshairs. Chainalysis + KNPA — […]

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Cecabank Launches Crypto Custody as Traditional Banks Move Into Bitcoin

Cecabank has launched crypto custody services, another sign that traditional banks are finally treating bitcoin and digital assets as something more than a passing headache. Cecabank launches crypto custody Traditional banks keep moving into digital assets Institutions want exposure without self-custody risk Custody helps adoption, but centralization comes with it The Spanish financial institution is […]

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Futu Becomes Hong Kong’s First Broker to Offer Crypto Trading on Margin

Futu Securities has become the first brokerage in Hong Kong approved to offer securities-backed financing for virtual asset trading, giving eligible clients a new way to use traditional market credit to buy and sell crypto, following SFC approval for securities-backed crypto trading financing in the city. SFC approval expands Futu’s Type 1 license Eligible clients […]

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Cecabank Launches MiCA-Regulated Crypto Custody for European Banks, Renta 4 Banco First In Line

Spain’s Cecabank has launched a MiCA-regulated crypto custody and trading platform for financial institutions, with Renta 4 Banco already using the service and Bit2Me handling the trading and liquidity side. MiCA-regulated crypto custody and trading Renta 4 Banco among the first users Bit2Me provides trading, liquidity, and market access European passporting underway in Ireland, Portugal, […]

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CLARITY Act Stalls in Senate as Ethics Fight and BRCA Concerns Block Crypto Bill

The CLARITY Act, Washington’s long-promised crypto market structure bill, has hit another brick wall in the Senate after bipartisan talks over ethics language fell apart and law enforcement objections refused to go away. CLARITY Act stalls again in Senate talks Republicans reportedly walked back a tentative ethics deal BRCA language has law enforcement worried about […]

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Bitcoin Miners Squeezed as Difficulty Rises and AI Pivots Accelerate

Bitcoin miners are getting squeezed by brutal difficulty, weak BTC pricing, and almost nonexistent transaction fee income, while a growing number are chasing AI and high-performance computing revenue just to stay alive. Mining difficulty is near 139 trillion hashes All-in BTC production cost is around $85,000 BTC price sits near $62,000, leaving many miners underwater […]

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Euroclear and Banque de France Discuss 300B Euro Tokenization Project

Euroclear’s Jürgen Ouaknine is discussing a 300 billion euro tokenization project with Banque de France, a sign that tokenized assets are moving from conference buzzword territory into the machinery of institutional finance. 300 billion euro scope — The figure points to a serious institutional push, not a toy pilot. Banque de France involvement — Central […]

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ONDO Adds Native Swaps for 260+ Tokenized Stocks in Ledger Wallets

ONDO Finance has made tokenized stocks a lot more practical by enabling native swaps for more than 260 of them inside Ledger wallets. It’s another clean shot across the bow for traditional finance: the assets are getting wrapped, routed, and traded onchain whether Wall Street likes it or not. ONDO Finance now supports native swaps […]

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DBS Bank to Launch Tokenized Physical Gold in Digibank App

DBS Bank is set to bring tokenized physical gold into its digibank app, giving customers a more digital way to access one of the oldest safe-haven assets on Earth. It’s another sign that major banks are warming up to real-world asset tokenization — but whether this becomes genuinely useful infrastructure or just fintech theater with […]

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AI Will Expose Weak Crypto Projects as Security Standards Rise, Helius CEO Warns

Helius Labs CEO Mert Mumtaz says crypto is heading into a harsher security era, where AI will expose weak projects, fake decentralization, and sloppy smart contract design. AI is raising the security bar for crypto and DeFi, not just the attack surface. Immutable financial code needs far more rigor than standard web software. “Straw houses” […]

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Coinbase Pushes Congress to Treat Stablecoins Like Cash, Not Taxable Crypto Assets

Coinbase wants Washington to stop treating stablecoins like speculative crypto toys and start treating them more like cash. The exchange is pressing Congress to ease crypto tax burdens, arguing that dollar-pegged tokens should be usable for payments without turning every purchase into a bookkeeping headache. Coinbase wants stablecoins treated more like cash Current crypto tax […]

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BlackRock and Fidelity Dominate U.S. Spot Bitcoin ETF Inflows as Market Consolidates

BlackRock and Fidelity have turned the U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF market into a two-horse race, with IBIT and FBTC swallowing the lion’s share of inflows while smaller issuers watch from the sidelines. IBIT and FBTC dominate U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF inflows Institutional buyers want liquidity, trust, and scale Smaller Bitcoin ETFs are getting squeezed ETF […]

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