Key takeaways Crypto investigator ZachXBT criticized Token2049 for poor sponsor vetting, warning that platinum sponsorships don’t equate to legitimacy. Several sponsors he flagged turned out to have shady records. JPEX and HyperVerse used event sponsorships to project credibility. Both later collapsed under fraud investigations, causing billions in investor losses and arrests. Red flags include anonymous…
ARK Invest has seized the recent stock market dip to boost its stakes in major US crypto exchange Coinbase and Bitcoin miner BitMine Immersion Technologies. The Cathie Wood-led firm added a total of 94,678 shares of Coinbase (COIN) across three of its funds, including the ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK), ARK Next Generation Internet ETF (ARKW)…
Bitcoin (BTC) treasury company Strategy has expanded the scope its STRC offering twice since issuing the corporate security on July 22. The company announced an at-the-market offering of up to $4.2 billion of its Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock (STRC), a hybrid corporate security, to purchase more BTC on Thursday. STRC is…
The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has lifted the ban on retail access to cryptocurrency exchange-traded notes (cETNs). Companies in the UK will soon be able to offer retail consumers cETNs, with regulatory changes effective from Oct. 8, 2025, according to an official FCA announcement on Friday. The new development in the UK’s regulatory…
Bitcoin-focused staking platform Solv Protocol has launched a structured yield vault for institutional investors, targeting more than $1 trillion in BTC currently sitting idle and not collecting interest. Solv’s new BTC+ is designed as a Bitcoin (BTC) yield vault aggregating and deploying capital across various yield strategies spanning decentralized finance (DeFi), centralized finance (CeFi) and…
Blockstream, the developer of Bitcoin’s layer-2 protocol Liquid and led by Bitcoin cypherpunk Adam Back, has launched Simplicity, a new smart contract language designed for Bitcoin. According to a Thursday announcement shared with Cointelegraph, Simplicity smart contracts will be integrated into Liquid. The company said the move marks a step forward in transforming Bitcoin (BTC)…
The number of investor-led class-action lawsuits in the US relating to crypto and artificial intelligence is already nearing the total filed in all of 2024. Cornerstone said in a report on Wednesday that AI and crypto were the top trends in complaints in the first half of 2025, with 12 AI-related filings and six crypto-related…
The Indonesian government updated its tax policies for the crypto industry, raising levies on traders and miners while removing value-added tax (VAT) obligations for buyers. On Monday, Indonesia’s Ministry of Finance issued multiple regulatory updates, including regulations No. 50/2025 and No. 53/2025, which amend crypto tax rates and compliance requirements effective Aug. 1. An excerpt…
Key points: Bitcoin’s price compression and the Bollinger Bands suggest a range expansion will occur soon. This week’s early price weakness is likely the result of traders cutting risk ahead of Wednesday’s FOMC and a White House update on its crypto policy and Bitcoin strategic reserve. Bitcoin (BTC) continued to trade within the $117,000 to…
InternetX, a domain registrar under the IONOS hosting umbrella, plans to tokenize its entire portfolio of 22 million domains using D3’s Doma Protocol, potentially bringing traditional domains onchain. The Doma Protocol is a DNS-compliant blockchain platform designed for domain finance. Through this partnership, InternetX will enable customers and partners to convert traditional domains into blockchain-based…
