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The Blockchain Group (ALTBG) has inked a headline-grabbing deal with French asset manager TOBAM to raise up to €300 million (≈ $342M) in an “ATM-style” equity program aimed squarely at bolstering its Bitcoin reserves.
The announcement, paired with a 624 BTC buy last week, marks Europe’s largest single corporate initiative to convert equity into Bitcoin directly. It signals a growing appetite for...
Bitcoin futures have returned to parity with spot prices following a steep 5% drawdown earlier this week that liquidated more than $4 million in leveraged long positions.
Price action on Binance’s BTC-USDT perpetual contract shows a reversal from a June 5 low of $100,700 to $105,499, nearing the prior high of $106,775 reached on June 3.
The move unfolded as large trades entered both before and...
Ripple plans to offer up to $200,000 in grants to Japanese startups building on the XRP Ledger (XRPL).
The initiative, announced on June 9, is part of the company’s broader effort to foster blockchain innovation in Japan.
According to the statement, the funding is tied to a new partnership with Web3 Salon, a program supported by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO). Ripple will provide...
OpenSea’s rollout of its OS2 platform has driven its highest user growth in over two years, suggesting that the long-dormant NFT market may be flickering back to life.
Monthly active users on OpenSea jumped to roughly 467,000 in May, marking a 44% increase from April and the most since April 2023.
OpenSea Monthly Active Users (Source: Dune Analytics)
While sales volumes remain at a fraction of...
Argentina’s Anti-Corruption Office has determined that President Javier Milei did not violate any ethics laws when he promoted the Solana-based LIBRA memecoin in February.
In a resolution issued on Friday, the office declared that Milei’s Feb. 14 X post constituted a personal statement rather than an official announcement as a public servant. Therefore, Milei’s post did not result in any ethics...
A debate has erupted among the Bitcoin community over a joint statement released by 31 Bitcoin Core developers on June 6.
In their statement, the developers argued that while the new transaction relay policy might lead to more non-financial use cases, protecting censorship resistance is one of the core tenets of the blockchain.
The developers noted that the Bitcoin network is “defined by its...
The following is a guest post and analysis from Shane Neagle, Editor In Chief fromThe Tokenist.
On Tuesday, Michael Saylor, the Executive Chairman of MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), riled up the Bitcoin part of the internet. At an event adjacent to Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas, Saylor was asked whether the company (rebranded as Strategy) has any plans to publish proof-of-reserves for its...
A recent analysis posted by Artemis CEO Jon Ma has sparked discussion about Tether’s potential market value, suggesting that if the company were to go public, its valuation could reach $515 billion. This figure would place Tether among the world’s largest corporations by market capitalization, ahead of well-known names such as Costco and Coca-Cola.
Jon Ma’s analysis draws several key comparisons...
The following is a guest post and opinion from John deVadoss, Co-Founder of the InterWork Alliancez.
“Decentralization” is crypto’s all-purpose slogan, yet the word never appears in the 2008 Bitcoin white paper. What Satoshi outlined was narrower and more radical: a peer-to-peer system that swaps institutional trust for publicly auditable cryptographic proof. Trust can be minimized without power...
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One of the main takeaways from TOKEN2049 earlier this year was that the UAE, and Dubai in particular, is the hottest spot (quite literally) on the crypto map. Judging by...