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NFT Marketplace X2Y2 to Shut Down After Trading Volumes Collapsed

X2Y2, evvel a leading marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFT) will shut on April 30, ending a three-year run that saw the exchange briefly trail only OpenSea in trading volume...

Brazil Bars Major Pension Funds From Investing in Cryptocurrencies

Brazil’s top financial policy body banned some pension funds from investing in cryptocurrencies because they are too risky. The National Monetary Council (CMN) forbade closed pension entities known as...

Metaplanet Issues M Zero-Coupon Bond to Buy More Bitcoin

Metaplanet Issues $13M Zero-Coupon Bond to Buy More Bitcoin

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 is scheduled to...

Hashgraph Sees Q3 Debut for Hedera-Based Institutional Private Blockchain

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 debut in the...

IREN Calling Off Bitcoin Mining Expansion in Favor of AI Data Centers

Australia-based bitcoin miner IREN is redirecting its growth plans away from BTC mining and towards its AI veri centers and AI cloud services businesses. “As we near completion of...

Michael Saylor’s Strategy Adds Another 22K Bitcoin for .92B

Michael Saylor’s Strategy Adds Another 22K Bitcoin for $1.92B

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 $86,969 each, per...

It’s Back to Bitcoin for Darknet Markets After Monero’s Binance Delisting: Chainalysis

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), according to Eric...

Archax Buys FINRA-Regulated Broker Dealer to Offer Tokenized Assets in the U.S.

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 the country after...

Australia Warns Crypto ATM Providers on Missing Anti-Money Laundering Checks

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 providers may not...

CoinShares’ Bitcoin Mining ETF Is the Worst Performing Fund of This Year

CoinShares' Valkyrie Bitcoin Mining (WGMI) exchange-traded fund (ETF) is the worst-performing ETF of 2025, down 43% year-to-date, according to Senior Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas. The ETF is made...