Japanese hotel firm Metaplanet (3350) has issued a 2 billion yen ($13.3 million) zero-coupon ordinary bond, with proceeds earmarked for additional bitcoin (BTC) purchases. The bond...
Economists have long theorized about «perfect markets» — where buyers and sellers operate with complete information, zero transaction costs, and frictionless exchange. Despite technological advances, this...
Hashgraph, the blockchain development firm focusing on the Hedera (HBAR) network, is building a private, permissioned blockchain for enterprises in highly regulated industries with plans to...
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at...
Australia-based bitcoin miner IREN is redirecting its growth plans away from BTC mining and towards its AI data centers and AI cloud services businesses. “As we...
The Strategy (MSTR) bitcoin (BTC) acquisition machine continued to roll on last week. The company added 22,048 BTC for $1.92 billion, or an average price of...
Darknet markets are increasingly returning to bitcoin (BTC) as their primary cryptocurrency because of rising liquidity and accessibility challenges associated with privacy-focused coins like monero (XMR),...
Archax, a U.K.-regulated crypto exchange and custodian focusing on tokenized assets, has acquired a U.S. broker-dealer in an effort to enter the booming institutional market in...
By James Van Straten (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) With trade tensions escalating, Asian and European stocks extended last week’s declines. Japan’s Nikkei 225 fell...
AUSTRAC, Australia’s anti-money laundering watchdog, put crypto ATM providers on notice for not complying with required standards. «AUSTRAC’s cryptocurrency taskforce has found that some crypto ATM...